Acorn Furniture Removals is a family-owned Central Coast removalist that does office moves over weekends and out of hours, so your business is not offline on a trading day. Office moves typically cost $3,500–$15,000, and a 12-staff office over a weekend is usually $4,500–$8,000. You get a written fixed quote after we walk both locations, and a tax invoice with ABN and GST.
What do office removals cost on the Central Coast?
These are the only ranges we publish for office work. Your actual quote is fixed after the walk-through.
- Office moves overall: $3,500–$15,000
- 12-staff office over a weekend: typically $4,500–$8,000
Three things drive the price: the size of the office, how much IT handling is involved, and whether the work is on a weekend or out of hours. Lift sizes, loading access and archive volume also matter, which is why we look at both buildings before we quote rather than guess from a description. For how pricing works across all our moves, see the Central Coast removalist costs guide.
How an office move works with Acorn
- On-site walk-through. We visit both locations, walk the floor plan, and ask about IT, archives, sensitive materials and lift access.
- Written quote with a risk register. A fixed price, plus the things to plan for: lift sizes, weekend building access, and the IT cutover.
- Pack day or live load. Friday afternoon is the most common option. We load while your staff finish their last shift.
- Weekend setup. The trucks deliver, desks are placed, IT is reconnected by us or by your IT person, and boxes are labelled by department.
- Monday morning live. Staff walk in, plug in their laptops and carry on.
Planning an office move: the timeline that works
Most of the owners who book us are running the move themselves alongside a business. They typically have 6 to 10 weeks’ notice, they are comparing quotes, and they do not have time to project-manage. Here is a sensible way to use that window.
- 6 to 10 weeks out: Get three quotes. We would do the same. Ask each removalist for a fixed price in writing, and ask what happens with IT and insurance.
- Around the same time: Check your lease end date and building access rules for both sites, including lift bookings and any out-of-hours restrictions.
- A few weeks out: Tell your IT person the date. If they will do the cutover, we coordinate with them. If you want us to handle it, we scope it at the walk-through.
- The week before: Label by department, clear desks, and sort archive boxes. Anything you will not take is something you do not pay to move.
- Move weekend: We load, move and set up. You are live on Monday.
Weekend and out-of-hours moves
The point of a weekend move is that nobody loses a trading day. The most common pattern is a Friday afternoon load, transit and setup over the weekend, and an operational office on Monday morning. For businesses with a tight downtime window, out-of-hours weekday moves are also available.
Weekends are our busiest days across all our work, so book early. Saturday is standard and Sunday is available on request.
IT, servers and sensitive gear
We can handle IT either way. Our crew can do it directly, or we coordinate with your IT person so servers, network gear, monitors and phones are powered down, transported and set back up correctly. The risk register we write before the move lists the sensitive items and what needs to happen to each one.
Insurance matters here. Public liability and goods-in-transit cover is standard on every move. For $80K+ of monitors, networking, custom desks and archives, higher limits are available. Raise it at the walk-through so it is dealt with in the quote, not on the day.
Tax documents and client files are handled discreetly. Our crew are professional and keep to the job.
Tax invoice, ABN and GST
Every office move comes with a tax invoice that shows our ABN, GST and itemised costs. It is not exciting, but your accountant will want it, and it should be the same figure as the written quote you approved.
What an office move includes
- A walk-through of both locations before the quote.
- A written fixed quote with a risk register for anything sensitive.
- Padding, blankets and protective wraps for desks, cabinets and furniture.
- Loading, transit and unloading, with desks placed where you want them.
- IT reconnection, by us or by your IT person.
- Boxes labelled by department so people find their things on Monday.
- A tax invoice with ABN, GST and itemised costs.
Optional extras include packing the office, rubbish removal for old furniture and archive clear-outs, and storage if your new premises are not ready.
Questions to ask any commercial removalist
Whether you book us or not, put these to every quote you collect. Three quotes is sensible, and these questions make them comparable.
- Is the price fixed and in writing, or hourly?
- Will anyone come and look at both buildings before quoting?
- Can they work on a weekend or out of hours?
- Who handles IT, and what happens if something does not power back up?
- What insurance applies, and are there higher limits for expensive equipment?
- Do they provide a tax invoice with ABN and GST?
- Who is actually turning up on the day?
If any of those answers is vague, that is useful information.
Why a family removalist for an office move
An office move is mostly about not being the person whose business was offline on Monday. That depends on a crew that turns up when it said it would and knows what it is carrying. Acorn has been family-run since 1996, with two generations of the Page family running the crews. The people who walk your floor plan are the people who move you, and you have a named contact throughout rather than three vendors to coordinate.
Who this is for
Owner-operators of small and mid-sized businesses. Typically 12 to 60 staff: accounting practices, agencies, retail, small wholesale and warehousing. You have outgrown the lease, you have limited time, and the move cannot be the thing that costs you a client.
Retail and showroom operators. Stock and fittings are a different job from desks and screens. We scope them at the walk-through.
Businesses moving between the Coast and Sydney. We run both directions. See Sydney to Central Coast removalist.
If you only need storage while your new premises are fitted out, see furniture storage at Lake Munmorah. If you want us to pack the office too, see packing and unpacking.
Where our Coast office moves happen
Most of our office work is for small businesses in the commercial centres of the Coast. Erina has its commercial heart at Erina Fair. Tuggerah has a commercial corridor of its own. We also move businesses in Wyong and Gosford, and from Coast offices into Sydney.
Get an office move quote
Use the quote form and tell us roughly how many staff you have, where you are moving from and to, your preferred weekend, and whether IT needs coordinating. We will arrange the walk-through and come back with a written fixed price.
