HHCF

Hi,

When I get out to Australia I'm keen to have all my furniture shipped out, i.e. wardrobes, couches, tables & chairs. Obviously I know what imigration is like with bringing in wood to the country so would I be likely to get furniture into Australia or should I give it up as a bad job and sell it in the UK. My main concern is having it shipped and imigration kicking it all back and wasting the shipping costs.

Thanks
Stephen

Kooky.

Hi Stephen, you should be fine bringing furniture in so long as it's treated, i.e., not raw wood, doesn't look like you just took a chainswaw to a tree.

We brought a lot of wooden furniture and artefacts we bought in Asia and had no problems whatsoever; some of it is very rustic Indonesian. We did, on the advice of our shippers, leave behind most of our outdoor furniture as we had let it age naturally and they thought we'd have a problem with it. The small set we brought, I cleaned up and re-stained and that got through fine too.

Myself and others have asked numerous questions about what and not what to ship, so if you have a search you should find some useful threads.

oilyblues

We recently moved over and used a company to ship out our stuff. We planned it so that they picked up the stuff we wanted to ship over 8 weeks before our intended arrival date in Sydney so it arrived there or thereabouts when we got here.

One thing from our experience is ship as much over as possible. Even the iron board! Pillows - the lot.. Simply because you will find it is done on container size not the quantity or weight. If you have spare stuff then definatley ship it over. It all costs money to buy over here and invariably it is cheaper to ship all you stuff than to leave some stuff at home only to have to buy it new when you get here. All in all it cost us £3000. One thing we got caught out on is that you need to make sure things are clean when you pack them. They cleaned our bikes cos they had dirt on but in actual fact they were nice and shiney when we got them.

Good luck and hope this helps!

Oli

r1del

Do what we did....... ship out to Oz and turn it around and ship it back when you get the cleaning bill off customs!!!!!!

CH33ZEBURG3R

Everything will be fine if its treated, we had things that were not and just varnished them, ie shoe racks, a cheap set of draws also John Mason who we used said if its an item thats been inside your house, like you wouldnt keep your prize bookshelf in the back yard, then it would be fine, dont sell it if its good furniture, buying it here will cost you more, we brought our BBQ, i cleaned it with Jizer as best i could and it got through no probs.