cadman

Hi peeps,

Has anyone shipped their worldly goods to OZ and then had them in storage at that end for a couple of months ? i.e. shipped by company X and then stored at that end by them also.

We are in the process of selling the house here and will hopefully complete next month. Our flights are April 2nd next year (wife finishing nurse training)
We have 4 weeks free accommodation in a furnished motel on arrival.

We have 2 options:

1. move into rented house for 4 months and have to move all the house contents myself, hiring a van etc.

2. move into my mum's for 4 months, save a fortune on rent, bills etc (whilst still helping her out with some much needed cash I hasten to add), and get the shippers to come and pack/take all our stuff to Oz 4 months early and pay for storage out there.
the downside is that her house is full of cats, dogs, my nice but scally 16 yr old niece and her feckless annoying hillbilly boyfriend from wigan ( who we're sure suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome - tragic but jeesus he's useless see link: http://www.nofas.org/faqs.aspx?id=9 ) and the house smells of cat p*ss ! other than that it's fine !

1 other complication is that we are going to cairns. I'm presuming the stuff will go to brisbane and can therefore be stored there and then shipped by road ? or will it go by boat from bris to cairns ?

all advice appreciated !

Andy

sunburn

...Just for info I was told by an international removals company that it costs about half as much to store in Aus as it does in the UK.

Nicky & Dave

Hi Andy,

We also had to look into storage as we completed on our house sale early. We'd also heard via the forum that it was cheaper to store in Oz, but when we looked into it, it was actually slightly cheaper to store in the UK.

The average cost of storage in the UK was £25.00 per week, compared to $80.00 per week in Oz. (This was based on 1100 cu ft - which equates to filling a 20' container.)

Most of the shipping companies will give you upto 4 weeks free UK storage to start, but you'd probably be able to push that and get a better deal if you needed to store for a longer time. It was far harder to get them to give us a good deal on free storage in Oz tho'!

The other benefit of storing in the UK is, provided you go for a shipper with their storage depot near you, you can add stuff to your container if need be - and be there when it's finally loaded into the container if you want to.

Rgds,

Nicky

rebnatoli

We've been told by a couple of International movers that its cheaper to store in the UK than Oz.

thebears

Hi Andy

We have half our container (20ft) in long term storage it is costing $13 per week with annual fumugation charge of around $120.

Location Melbourne - this is with Kent.

Kiwi

thebears

Hi Andy

We have half our container (20ft) in long term storage it is costing $13 per week with annual fumigation charge of around $120.

Location Melbourne - this is with Kent.

Kiwi

h2oskineil

We stored for 8 months with Chess Moving in Perth. It was around 1/2 a house and cost £115 per month. www.chessmoving.com.au

Neil.

sunburn

Well it seems to all depend on which Co. you use.
Thought it sounded useful advice but there you go

...At least you get unbiased info here

SB

cadman

Presumably they will advise on which end is cheaper when they quote.

Thanks anyway SB

Andy

Mochinbach

Anyone stored in Brissie?

We're planning to ship it our before we leave sop that it will be available to us when we arrive. Then we won't end up buying everything again anyway.

busterboy

[QUOTE=cadman]


My advice...move to your mum's but make sure you give her cash in the kinds of things that scally niece and feckless hillbilly can't be advantaged by. The problem with sponger types is that any good fortune ie extra cash that comes into a house, they think they have a share of it.

Bix

Containers are usually railed up to Cairns Andy.

cadman

cheers bix. the quote will include it so I don't suppose it matters how they get it there !

andy

cadman

[QUOTE=busterboy] we've already decided to do just that mate. and yes, the cash will be going straight to me mam but no doubt they'll try and sponge some of it !

andy