Single items & furniture

Furniture removalists in Brisbane, from a single couch up

One item or a few. A sofa that was never going to fit in a car, a fridge going to your sister's place, a Marketplace pickup across town, or a bedroom's worth of furniture between two addresses.

The same blankets, straps, trolleys and care as a full house move, with two movers and a truck. It is just booked by the hour against a two-hour minimum instead of a whole day, so one item costs what one item should.

  • One item or one room, not just whole houses
  • 2-hour minimum, then 30-minute blocks
  • Blankets, straps and trolleys included
  • Short-notice and weekend slots where a crew is free

Moving a whole house or unit rather than a few items? Hourly rates and typical timings for a full move are here.

SwiftMove movers carrying a white cabinet down an indoor staircase

What a single-item job actually gets you

  • The same crew and the same gear

    A couch does not get the budget version. Blankets, shrink-wrap, straps and trolleys are on the truck whether we are moving one item or forty.

  • Two hours is the minimum, not the expectation

    Most single-item jobs finish inside it. You are not paying for a day because you only have one thing to shift, and we don't pad the clock to fill it.

  • Marketplace and Gumtree pickups

    Send us the seller's address, your address and a window. We collect it, wrap it and deliver it — which is the usual fix for something that looked a great deal smaller in the listing photo.

  • Deliveries the retailer won't do

    Stores that deliver to the kerb, or to the ground floor only, or not at all. We'll take it to the room it is actually going in and unwrap it there.

  • Moving things within one house

    A bedroom going upstairs, a sofa coming out of a room it was practically built in, or clearing furniture out for new flooring. Two people, the right straps, by the hour.

  • We'll tell you if it won't fit

    Send a photo of the item and of the doorway or stairwell. Measuring in advance costs nothing. Finding out on the day costs you the minimum.

What people actually book this for

Most common

One or two items

A sofa, a fridge, a bed, a dining table, a washing machine. Normally done inside the two-hour minimum at $170 an hour with two movers.

A room's worth

A bedroom, a study, or whatever is in the garage. Bigger than a single item and smaller than a move, and billed the same way — by the hour, for the hours it takes.

Pickups and deliveries

Marketplace, Gumtree, auction houses, or a store that only delivers as far as your front gate. Collected at one address, delivered into the room at the other.

Every booking has the same 2-hour minimum and one call-out fee, confirmed in writing before you commit. For a single item that usually means the minimum is the whole bill.

SwiftMove movers negotiating an indoor staircase with a white cabinet

Measure it before you book, not after we arrive

Almost every single-item job that goes wrong goes wrong for one reason: the thing does not fit through something. A three-seater that went into a Queenslander through a window. A fridge half an inch wider than the stairwell turn. A sofa bed that was delivered before the balcony was enclosed.

So measure two things and send us the numbers: the item at its widest, and the narrowest point on the route — a doorway, a stairwell turn, a lift car, a hallway corner. Photos are just as good as measurements and take ten seconds.

We can take a door off its hinges, pull the feet or legs off, and stand things on end. What we cannot do is make an item smaller than the gap. If it genuinely will not go, we would much rather tell you that on the phone than charge you two hours to find out.

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Questions we get about this, specifically

Will you really move just one item?

Yes, and it's a good chunk of what we do. There is a 2-hour minimum on every booking, so a single item is charged at the minimum rather than at some special rate — which for most people works out cheaper than hiring a van, finding a second person and doing it themselves.

How much does it cost to move a single item in Brisbane?

$170 an hour with two movers, against a 2-hour minimum, plus one call-out fee confirmed in writing with your quote. Most single-item jobs land inside the minimum, so that is usually the whole cost. Stairs, a long carry from the truck, or a second address add time.

Can you pick up something I bought on Marketplace or Gumtree?

Yes. We need the pickup address, the delivery address, a window that suits the seller, and a contact number for whoever is handing it over. Tell us what the item is too — a bar fridge and a full-height one are not the same job.

Do you deliver from stores and auction houses?

Yes. It is a common one: plenty of retailers deliver to the kerb or the ground floor and no further. Give us the invoice or lot number, the collection hours and where it's going, and we'll take it into the room.

Can you move furniture around inside my house?

Yes, and it is charged the same way — hourly, with the 2-hour minimum. Common before new flooring goes down, when a bedroom swaps floors, or when something needs to come out of a room it was assembled in.

What happens if the item doesn't fit through the door?

We'll try the obvious things: doors off hinges, legs and feet off, stood on end. If it still won't go, the job stops there and the 2-hour minimum still applies, because the crew and the truck were booked out for it. That is exactly why we ask for the measurements or a photo before you book rather than after.

Is a heavy single item priced the same way?

Anything over about 100kg, or awkward on stairs, is assessed individually from photos before we confirm the crew, equipment and rate. Stairs can change the hourly rate. Packing materials used for the booking are included.

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Based in Windsor and working right across Greater Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast, plus interstate on request. See every area we cover.

Inner Brisbane

Northside

  • Windsor
  • Newmarket
  • Wilston
  • Kelvin Grove
  • Ashgrove
  • Chermside
  • Nundah
  • Clayfield
  • Hamilton
  • Aspley
  • North Lakes
  • Redcliffe

Southside

  • Annerley
  • Greenslopes
  • Coorparoo
  • Carindale
  • Mount Gravatt
  • Sunnybank
  • Holland Park
  • Camp Hill
  • Bulimba
  • Morningside
  • Springwood
  • Calamvale

Western suburbs

  • Toowong
  • St Lucia
  • Indooroopilly
  • Kenmore
  • Chapel Hill
  • The Gap
  • Paddington
  • Milton
  • Auchenflower
  • Jindalee
  • Centenary Suburbs
  • Ipswich

Beyond Brisbane

  • Gold Coast
  • Sunshine Coast
  • Logan
  • Redlands
  • Moreton Bay
  • Toowoomba
  • Byron Bay
  • Interstate

One thing to move is still a job.

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