Beef Wellington

Hello all,
Is there anyone who could advise me of the approx cost of shipping some of the contents of my house from the UK to Wellington...........and is it worth it. Of some of the NZ sites I have visited, to replace the furniture ect that I have would cost a fortune. But I fear a container would be just if not more costly.
Any advice would be welcome,
Beef

mumomonty

Depends on the quality of your stuff but furniture and whitegoods are not cheap here. Bring it if you can. It cost us 1800 quid in 2001 and we are always glad we brought our stuff over. Okay so somethings you think why bother but they are your history too. Bring em if you can afford to.

Beef Wellington

Thanks for the advice, I probably will ship our stuff if it is not wildly expensive. "Er indoors" has all but made her mind up on this subject anyway and there is no way I am going to argue with her. She plays Rugby (back row)and drinks beer faster than this icon
Thanks again,
Beef

SarahB

Hiya Beef...

We have been in Auckland just a few weeks now. We used a local moving company and it cost us 3.7k before insurance. They packed everything...they were very professional and everything got here in one piece 2 weeks ago..they even take the rubbish away with them.

Yes it was expensive but we regret not bringing more furniture with us as we did have a little bit of room left over in the container. Bring everything you can... everything is more expensive here than you think its gonna be.

The name of the company we used was Hadley and Ottaway and they are based in Norwich if youre anywhere near them. Pickfords quote was way over 4k.

Beef Wellington

Thanks SarahB, most helpful. We were expecting to pay around that amount which would make it worth it. We are travelling from Kent so I might contact H&O for a quote.
Beef.

SarahB

I cant praise them enough...they were really good and nice bunch of folk too...all uniformed and no part time/temp labour. Their agent in AKL is The Moving Company and they were pretty good too.

You might find a quote from them a bit cheaper than ours as we had 3 specialist items specially packed in wooden crates which bumped the price up a bit.

Joshlin

Hi Beef
we're using PSS and it's costing us £3600 for a 20ft container plus £5.20 /cubic foot for groupage - door to door service, all the packing, all the paperwork, all the unpacking. doesn't include insurance.

nivlem

Errrr, sorry, just being thick. What's groupage?

Biddy

Groupage is basically where you share a container I think.
We've used PSS and found them fab at the UK end.

All the advice I've had is to bring everything whether you think you'll need it or not!! :scared:

Joshlin

as biddy says it's where you share a container - we've got too much for a 20ft and not enough for a 40ft so the extra is going in a shared container and we'll only pay for the space we use.

Beef Wellington

Thanks Joshlin
All very useful, could be just about all we need. also not sure what would work (electrically) and what wouldnt.
THANKS,
BEEF.

Joshlin

Hi Beef
the only things that won't work are the TV's for receiving broadcast that you can hear - will work if broadcast routed through other stuff (VCR's / DVD's etc) You'll need to change plugs and repairs / spares could be difficult but saves costs at the outset. If you search back through threads on here there have been many discussions re: electrical stuff.

dlummis

we are using PSS quote was £3600 for 20ft container nNorfolkto cChristchurch bloke came out and done a very good survey of our stuff. looks like we will need a bit of spare container as my mate has just came back from cChristchurchand said take everything, white goods are expensive, he is going to buy new fridge and freezer here and ship over with other stuff.