Office Removalists Melbourne
Planned office relocations across Melbourne. We confirm the loading dock, lift access and building requirements before the day, and build the loading order around when you need to be trading again.
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- CoverageMetropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria
- SchedulingAfter hours, weekends and quiet trading periods
- IncludedWrapping, protection, dismantle and reassembly
- CoverFully guaranteed transit insurance
Office Removal Services
An office move is a different job to a household one. The contents are more uniform but there is more of it, the building usually sets the rules about when you can load, and the cost of the move is rarely the truck. It is the hours your business is not trading.
So we work backwards from that. We start with when you need to be operating again, then build the loading order, the crew size and the schedule around it. Most of our commercial work runs outside trading hours, over a weekend, or across a quiet period, so your staff leave one office on Friday and start in the new one on Monday.
We handle desks and workstations, office chairs, filing cabinets and storage units, boardroom and reception furniture, whitegoods from the kitchen, and the monitors, printers and screens that go with them. Furniture that has to come apart is dismantled and reassembled at the other end.
If you are relocating a workplace outside Victoria, our interstate removalists service covers office moves to other states. If the job is really only a few large pieces rather than a whole workplace, furniture removals is usually the better fit.
What comes with you
- Desks and workstations
- Office seating and task chairs
- Filing cabinets and storage units
- Boardroom and meeting tables
- Reception and waiting-area furniture
- Kitchen furniture and whitegoods
- Monitors, printers and screens
- Archive boxes and stored files
Worth flagging early: server racks, comms cabinets and structured cabling are not something we will quote blind. Tell us what is involved and we will confirm before you book what we can handle and what your IT provider needs to cover.
Who Office Removals Are Suitable For
Small offices and single tenancies
A single suite or one floor: workstations, seating, a filing run, the kitchen and the screens and printers that go with them. Usually one truck and one visit, and often run over a Saturday so nobody loses a trading day.
Even at this size the building decides the schedule, so we check the lift and the loading area before quoting rather than after.
Growing businesses changing premises
Moving to a larger tenancy is when most workplaces work out what actually comes with them. Old workstations, broken chairs and archive boxes cost the same to move as the things you use every day.
Send us the floor plan for the new office and we label by where things are going rather than where they came from, so the other end is placement instead of guesswork.
Larger workplaces and multi-area sites
Reception, boardroom, open-plan desks, storage and a kitchen, often across more than one floor and more than one work area.
These run in stages. If part of the business has to keep operating through the move, those teams go first or last rather than everything shifting at once.
Planning an Office Relocation
Planning is what separates an office move that costs you a weekend from one that costs you a trading week. Before the day we want to know what is coming, what is being replaced or disposed of, and how the new floor is meant to be laid out.
A move is also the easiest time to deal with what you no longer need. Old workstations, broken chairs and archive boxes that have not been opened in years are all things you would otherwise pay to transport twice.
Decide early whether any part of the business has to keep operating through the move. If it does, we stage the relocation so those teams move last or move first, rather than everything shifting at once. For a sense of what drives the price of a move, our guide to moving costs in Melbourne covers the main factors.
What we confirm with the building before the day
- Loading dock — the booking window, the height limit and whether a key or swipe card is needed
- Lift access — which lift is available, the window the building allows and whether it needs padding
- Parking and loading zones — where the truck can stand, and any restriction on the street outside
- Building management — after-hours approval, site induction and anything the building wants from us in writing
- Security and sign-in — passes or sign-in for every person on the crew, at both addresses
- Certificate of currency — most commercial buildings ask the removalist for one before releasing the dock. Tell us if yours does and we will arrange it ahead of the day
- Trading hours — which teams have to keep working, and when the new office has to be usable
- Floor plan — where each desk and cabinet is going, so the new office is set up rather than stacked
Send us the address at both ends when you enquire and we will find out what each building requires, rather than discovering it at reception on the day.
Send us both addresses, roughly how many workstations are involved and when you need to be trading again. We will come back with the crew, the truck, the price and the window we would recommend for the move.
Preparing for Moving Day
Most of the preparation is split between your team and ours, and the split is worth agreeing early so nothing falls between the two on the day.
Your team before the day
- Clear desks, drawers and personal items into the labelled boxes
- Back up and shut down computers, and take valuables home
- Empty the kitchen and any perishables from the fridge
- Decide what is being disposed of or replaced rather than moved
- Confirm the new floor plan and who sits where
- Tell staff the access arrangements and the sign-in at the new building
What our crew handles
- Wrapping and protecting furniture, screens and glass
- Dismantling workstations and reassembling them at the other end
- Disconnecting and boxing monitors, printers and desk equipment
- Floor and lift protection where the building requires it
- Loading in the order the new office needs to be unpacked
- Placing furniture to the floor plan and checking the inventory with you
One thing worth doing first: label by where things are going, not where they came from. Labelling against the new floor plan is the single change that makes the difference between setting an office up and stacking it in the middle of the floor.
Office Furniture and Workplace Items
Office furniture takes more damage in lifts and doorways than it does in the truck. Workstation tops chip at the corners, task chairs lose gas lifts and castors, and glass tabletops and whiteboards break on the turn out of a stairwell rather than on the road.
So the handling is where the care goes. Furniture is wrapped and padded before it leaves the floor, not at the loading dock. Glass and screens travel separately and upright. Anything that comes apart is dismantled properly and the fixings are bagged and labelled to the piece, so a workstation goes back together as the one it was rather than from a pile of parts.
Filing cabinets and storage units travel with drawers secured, and we would rather move a heavy filing run in two trips than force it into a lift that will not take it. Where the building requires it we protect the lift car and the floors at both ends before anything moves through.
Dismantling and reassembly are part of the job rather than an added line on the quote, and so is the wrapping. If a piece is already damaged or a fixing is missing, we point it out at the walk-through instead of finding it at the other end.
Melbourne Office Moving Considerations
Melbourne office moves are shaped by the building more than the furniture. Commercial towers in the CBD, Southbank and Docklands generally run a booked loading dock with a height limit and a fixed time slot, lift access windows that the building controls, and security sign-in for every person on the crew. Miss the dock booking and you lose the slot, not just the hour.
Suburban office parks are usually easier to load but bring their own constraints, such as shared driveways, tenant parking that cannot be blocked, and after-hours access that has to be arranged with the building manager in advance.
Tell us the building at both ends when you enquire and we will find out what each one requires. Our Melbourne removalist page covers how we work across the city generally, and for a move to or from a regional office see Victoria removalists.
How an Office Move Works
Site details and walk-through
Tell us both addresses, roughly how many workstations and staff are involved, and what is coming with you. A floor plan for the new office helps a great deal, because it tells us where each desk is going rather than leaving it to be worked out on the day. Then the access at both ends: the floor, the lift, the loading dock, and whether either has to be booked.
Quote and schedule
We come back with the crew, the truck and the price, plus the window we would recommend for the move. This is where we agree whether the job runs after hours, over a weekend or through a quiet period. If your lease end or fit-out completion is fixed, tell us then so we plan around a date that might shift.
Building requirements
Commercial buildings come with their own conditions: a loading dock booked to a time slot, lift access windows, security sign-in for the crew, and building management wanting paperwork from the removalist before the day. Send us what each building requires and we will provide it ahead of time rather than sorting it out at reception.
Pack down
Desks are cleared and labelled by destination, monitors and desk equipment are disconnected and boxed, and furniture that needs to come apart is dismantled with its fixings bagged to the piece. Labelling by the new floor plan rather than the old layout is what makes the setup fast, so we agree the labels before anything is packed.
Moving day
We load in the order the new office needs to be unpacked, not the order things happen to come out. Everything is wrapped and protected for the trip, the truck is tracked by GPS while it is on the road, and the inventory is checked with you before it leaves.
Setting up the new workplace
At the new premises, furniture goes to the position on the floor plan, workstations are reassembled, and boxes are left at the desk they belong to rather than stacked by the door. We walk the floor with you before we finish so anything in the wrong place is moved while we are still there.
What You Get With Apex Moving
You deal with the same team from the first site conversation through to the last workstation being put back together, so nothing has to be explained twice on the day.
- A price agreed before the job is bookedBuilt from your actual inventory and the access at both buildings, rather than a flat rate for an office of that size.
- Wrapping and protection includedPadding, wrapping and floor and lift protection are part of the job, and so is dismantling and reassembling furniture.
- Fully guaranteed transit insuranceWe provide fully guaranteed transit insurance to protect your goods throughout the move. Full cover details and policy terms are confirmed directly at booking.
- Live GPS trackingYou can see where your move is while it is on the road, which matters when a building has given you a fixed dock window at the other end.
- Scheduled around your trading hoursEvenings, weekends and quiet periods, so the office is packed down and set up again while nobody is trying to work in it.
- Reachable seven days a weekBookings and enquiries any day of the week, including while the move is under way.
- A 5-star Google reputationBuilt on over a decade of combined removals experience across the crew.
- Melbourne and regional VictoriaA move to a second site or a relocation out of the city is handled by the same company, not handed on.
You can check your area on our areas we serve page, read more about us on our about us page, or see everything we handle on our removalist services page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do office removalists do?
Office removalists relocate the contents of a workplace from one commercial premises to another: desks and workstations, seating, filing and storage, boardroom and reception furniture, kitchen whitegoods, and the monitors, printers and screens that sit on and around them. On an office job the planning matters as much as the lifting, because the building usually sets the rules about when you can load and how long you have the lift.
Are office removals different from house removals?
Yes. The contents of an office are more uniform than a household but there is more of it, and the constraints come from the building rather than the furniture: a booked loading dock, a lift access window, security sign-in for the crew and approval from building management. The cost of an office move is also rarely the truck, it is the hours the business is not trading, so the schedule is built backwards from when you need to be operating again. If you are moving a home rather than a workplace, house removals are the better fit.
Who are office removals suitable for?
Any business relocating between commercial premises in Melbourne or Victoria, from a single office suite through to a workplace spread across several floors and work areas. Smaller offices usually run as one visit, often on a Saturday. Larger sites are staged, so the teams that have to keep operating move first or last rather than everything shifting at once.
Can you move our office outside business hours or over a weekend?
Yes, and most of our commercial work runs that way. Evenings, weekends and quiet trading periods are the usual windows, so staff leave one office on the Friday and start in the new one on the Monday. After-hours access normally has to be approved by building management in advance, so tell us the window you want early and we will confirm what each building allows.
Who arranges the lift booking and the loading dock?
Send us the address at both ends when you enquire and we will find out what each building requires and arrange what we can on our side. Some buildings will only take a dock or lift booking from the tenant or their agent, in which case we will tell you exactly what to ask for and the time slot we need. What we will not do is turn up hoping the dock is free.
Do you provide a certificate of currency for building management?
Most commercial buildings ask the removalist for one before they release the loading dock or the lift. Tell us if yours does and we will arrange it ahead of the day rather than at reception on the morning of the move. We provide fully guaranteed transit insurance for your goods, and full cover details and policy terms are confirmed directly at booking.
Can you help with office furniture moves?
Office furniture is the bulk of most office relocations. Workstations, task chairs, filing cabinets, meeting and boardroom tables, reception furniture and storage units are wrapped and padded before they leave the floor, and anything that comes apart is dismantled with its fixings bagged and labelled to the piece so it goes back together as the one it was. If your job is only a few large pieces rather than a whole workplace, furniture removals is usually the better fit.
Do you disconnect and reconnect computers and IT equipment?
We disconnect, box, transport and set back out desk equipment such as monitors, docks, keyboards and desktop printers. Server racks, comms cabinets and structured cabling are a different job and we will not quote them blind. Tell us what is involved and we will confirm before you book what we can handle and what your IT provider needs to cover, rather than leaving it to be discovered on the day.
How should we prepare for an office move?
Clear desks and drawers into labelled boxes, back up and shut down computers, empty the kitchen, and decide what is being disposed of or replaced rather than moved. The most useful single step is labelling against the new floor plan rather than the old layout, so furniture and boxes are placed at the other end instead of stacked in the middle of the floor. Confirm who sits where before the day and tell staff about the sign-in at the new building.
Can we keep part of the business operating during the move?
Often, yes, but it needs to be decided early rather than on the day. Tell us which teams have to keep working and we will stage the relocation so those areas move first or last, with their workstations set up and usable before the rest of the floor is touched. Staging a move this way usually changes the schedule and the crew size, which is why it belongs in the quote rather than the morning briefing.
Do office moves in Melbourne need special planning?
Usually. Commercial towers in the CBD, Southbank and Docklands generally run a booked loading dock with a height limit and a fixed time slot, lift access windows the building controls, and security sign-in for every person on the crew. Miss the dock booking and you lose the slot rather than the hour. Suburban office parks load more easily but bring shared driveways, tenant parking that cannot be blocked, and after-hours access that has to be arranged with the building manager in advance.
How do I request a quote for office removalists Melbourne?
Send us both addresses, roughly how many workstations and staff are involved, your preferred date and when you need to be trading again. Add the floor, the lift and the loading arrangements at either end, and tell us if the building has requirements of its own. You can start on our booking page, or get in touch if you would rather talk it through first. There is no obligation to book.
Get a Quote
Tell us about your office move and we will send you a price
Send us the pickup and delivery addresses, roughly how many workstations are involved, your preferred date and when you need to be trading again. Tell us about the lift, the loading dock and any building requirements at either end, and we will come back with a quote for the job. There is no obligation to book.
Call 0470 515 895 · Email info@apexmoving.com.au · Or get in touch if you would rather talk it through first.
