Getting rid of a lounge from a third floor apartment is a different proposition to putting it on the kerb of a house. There is a lift to book, a dock to get to, a building manager to ask, and often a strata by-law covering all of it.
Most Sydney apartment buildings require you to arrange your own removal of bulky items, book the service lift, and use the loading dock rather than the front entrance. Leaving furniture beside the bin room is the most common mistake — in most buildings that counts as dumping, and the cost of clearing it is charged back to the owners corporation or to the resident responsible.
Every apartment building in Sydney has the same recurring problem: a mattress, a bookshelf or a broken chair appearing next to the bins.
Council waste contracts cover the building’s bins, not bulky items left beside them. When something is dumped there, the building has to arrange and pay for its removal, and that cost lands on the owners corporation — meaning every owner in the building pays for it through levies.
Buildings with cameras will usually identify who left it and charge them directly. Many by-laws also carry a penalty on top.
Ask building management or your strata manager for the building’s move-in and move-out procedure — it usually covers all of it in one document.
The recurring jobs we get called for in strata buildings are:
These are usually booked by the building manager against a maintenance budget, and we work to the building’s own dock, lift and hours rules.
Not every apartment has a lift. Sydney has a great deal of three and four storey walk-up stock, particularly across the Eastern Suburbs and Inner West, where everything comes down by hand on a narrow staircase with a turn at the bottom.
This is worth mentioning when you book. A lounge from a third floor walk-up needs more crew than the same lounge from a ground floor unit, and knowing in advance means the right number of people turn up.
In most buildings, no. Council contracts cover the bins, not bulky items, so anything left there is cleared at the building’s cost and often charged back to whoever left it.
The owners corporation, unless the building can identify the person responsible and charge them directly. Either way it comes out of building funds first.
Most Sydney buildings require a lift booking for bulky items, often with days of notice and lift protection fitted. Check your building’s move-in and move-out procedure.
Yes. Everything is carried down by hand. Tell us which floor and whether the staircase has turns so we bring enough crew.
Yes. Most buildings require a certificate of currency lodged in advance — tell us who it goes to and we will arrange it.
Tell us what needs to go and we will come back with a straight quote. Call 0429 222 344 or book online — we answer enquiries 24 hours.
