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No filler. Every guide below comes from questions our crews and quoting team answer each week.
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5 guides
Moving day
A practical moving day checklist for New Zealand homes: parking and access, fragile items, packing small items, dismantling furniture, defrosting the fridge, pets, kids and what to tell your movers.
Priya Nathan · · 6 min
Pricing
A breakdown of our fixed-price moving ladder by home size, what is included, and the extras worth planning for — with realistic totals for every home size.
Hana Whitiora · · 7 min
Planning
A week-by-week plan for a New Zealand house move: when to book movers, switch utilities, redirect mail and pack each room.
Priya Nathan · · 8 min
Pricing
What to check beyond the bottom-line number when comparing New Zealand moving quotes, so the fixed price you accept is the fixed price you pay.
Priya Nathan · · 5 min
Packing
Practical packing technique for glassware, plates, mirrors, TVs and artwork — the same method our packing crews use.
Tomás Reid · · 6 min
Operations manager
Hana has scheduled Affordable Movers crews since 2014 and writes the quoting rules our estimators use. She has personally quoted more than six thousand New Zealand moves.
Lead packer
Tomás runs our packing teams and trains every new packer who joins. If a carton survives a Cook Strait crossing, it was probably packed the way he teaches it.
Customer manager
Priya handles move-day coordination and the awkward parts nobody plans for: delayed settlements, quote comparisons and body corporate paperwork.
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