Daydreamer123

Hi

I know that this has been asked loads before, but once more for luck(?)

What sort of quotes have people been getting for shipping costs?

Also does anyone have an explanation for what will fit into the different size containers for example a 2 bedroom house is 20ft or something?

We have just got our visa and are starting to think about all these things, but there is soo much to do we dont know where to start. Cats, shipping, flights, accomdation, bank accounts...

And most importantly, a long break in SE asia, where to go, what to do, which is keeping me away from the practicle things like shipping quotes

Stu Ward

4 bedroom house, not overly furnished though
20ft container (95% full)

Anglo Pacific - £5K with standard liability insurance
Thats shipped to Wollongong (Sydney)

Daydreamer123

Thanks thats brilliant.

Do they do all the packing etc?

I am filling in online quote requests and they ask whether packing is required, i thought that they would do the packing because it all needs to be specially packed etc to to go in the container.

Is this the case, or could we pack ourselves? Saying that I dont know if the saving in money would be worth the spend in time and aggravation

Stu Ward

The quote we received is packing and packaging, also packaging disposal at the other end Inclusive

Stu

homewardbound

John masons - 75% of 20ft container - 4 bedroom house was £3000 fully packed from Lincolnshire to Sydney and includes delivery within 200k from syd)

vickys

Does that include insurance ?

homewardbound

no, not insurance. Don't talk to me about insurance.

ozzieclare2b

we had around 650cubic feet or around 65% of a 20ft container. 3 bed house cost us £2500 inc insurance but not customs fees from john masons

mydearboy1

Hi does anyone know the minimum you can ship (size/weight etc)?

As i am only wanting to take 2 sofas dining table and 4 chairs, book case, coffee table pictures and bits and bobs.

Many thanks

Darren

lisaroo

you will probably share a container with someone else, it does take a little bit longer as you have to wait for that container to be full,but the average is between 8-12 weeks, and we used allied pickfords for that

Daydreamer123

That sounds like what we were expecting, do you have loads of furniture or are you minamalist?

We have a 3 bed house and had a quote yesterday for close to £4k which seems too much, we are thinking about what we can leave behind. Will get in contact with John Mason, that sounds far more reasonable

ozzieclare2b

alot of our stuff could be flat packed down like dining suite but we had 2 big leather sofas washing machine fridge doubble bed huge pine wardrobe and tons of boxes for that. We used liverpool branch and quote was spot on

Daydreamer123

I dont know about flat packing any of our stuff, the bed can go down a bit, possibly the wardrobe, maybe the legs off the table but thats about all I guess.

We are not taking any kitchen stuff at all except a few appliances, looking at leaving the couch (its pretty manky these days) and book cases. So really only 2 bedrooms, a study and dining room + tv cabinet and the odd small bits and pieces.

It doenst sound a lot does it, surely it cant take up that much space! I think our house is smaller than one of those containers anyway

ozzieclare2b

we didnt think we had alot but it was 100 packages all together. We even had a couple of sideboards and a huge chest, its amazing how it all adds up but u can use space within stuff too. Im sure ive put a full inventory on here before but will have to look

vickys

Sorry didn't mean to cause you any extra stress.