Double garages and Metro towers.
Castle Hill runs two ways. Family homes sit on deep blocks with double garages, some behind a battleaxe drive a truck reverses down. Near the Metro, the same suburb turns to apartments with a lift to book.
- Double garages counted room by room
- Battleaxe drive and turning space checked early
- Cover confirmed before you pay anything
The block and the tower
Homes with a double garage
A double garage is close to a whole extra room of things, and it loads last. We count it with the house so the truck is sized right.
The battleaxe reverse
Homes behind a front house sit down a long handle with nowhere to turn. The truck goes in and reverses the whole way back out.
Towers along the line
Near the station the housing is apartments. That move is a booked service lift, a manager's window, and a shorter carry to the door.
Moving within Castle Hill
Castle Hill behaves like two suburbs at once. West and north it is large family homes on deep blocks, a few of them tucked behind a front house down a shared drive. Follow the Metro and it becomes apartments.
Which of the two you are in shapes the whole day. The table sets out what each kind of home asks of a crew, and the Hills District removalists page covers the wider region. Our moving house checklist orders the weeks before.
| Kind of home | What the crew has to plan for |
|---|---|
| Deep family home | A long front path or drive, and a garage counted as a room. |
| Battleaxe block | A handle past the front house, reversed where nothing turns. |
| Metro apartment | A booked service lift, a manager's window, and a short carry. |
Down the handle, and back
A handle is the narrow drive that runs past the front home to reach yours. Give us its length and whether a vehicle can turn at the house end. Where a pantech would jam, a van shuttles the load down from the street.
A garage full of boxes
Double garages fill up over years and load last. Sheds, tools and sports gear take longer than boxes, so counting the garage properly keeps the truck from running short of room.
Apartments near the station
Around the station the questions turn to the building: your floor, the service lift size, and the window management holds. Book that window before you book the truck.
Pricing a Castle Hill move
Room count sets the truck. The handle or the lift decides how close it parks. The run between your two addresses does the rest, and the figure is fixed at booking.
| Factor | Effect on the price |
|---|---|
| Rooms and volume | Sets the truck and base crew, studio to six bedrooms. |
| Handle length | A long reverse, or a shuttle where nothing turns. |
| Lift window | A booked slot moves an apartment load along faster. |
| Garage and shed | Counted as extra rooms, so the crew is sized right. |
| Distance between homes | Priced from your two addresses, never by the hour. |
| Included | Detail |
|---|---|
| Dedicated truck | Your move only, never a shared load. |
| Driver plus offsiders | Two to three haulers on a full home move. |
| A shuttle vehicle | Sent where a handle is too tight, at no extra charge. |
| Dismantle and reassemble | For the pieces you flag when booking. |
Measure the handle first
- The handle length, and its narrowest point
- Whether a vehicle can turn at the house
- The garage contents, counted as a room
Cheaper if you can: take a weekday, and clear the handle of parked cars first.
Photos help: one from the street down the drive. See how much removalists cost.
To book: quote online at picup.com.au/bookings, or call 1300 174 287 for a battleaxe block.
Castle Hill, in figures
Google rating and review count pulled June 2026. The 50,000+ figure counts residential jobs since 2020.
Castle Hill removals FAQs
Can a truck reverse down our handle?
Usually yes, where the handle is wide enough to pass a parked car and firm enough to hold a loaded pantech.
The part that decides it is the far end. A truck reverses the whole strip if there is no room to turn by the house, so we ask its length, its narrowest point, and what the surface is made of. Stand at the street, take a single photo down the drive, and the vehicle is chosen before the morning.
Does the double garage add time?
It can, because a full double garage is close to another room of belongings, and it is usually the last space to load.
Boxes stack quickly, but bikes, mowers, workbenches and shelving are the slow part. Count the garage as its own room when you book, tell us if anything there is over 150kg, and the crew is sized for it rather than caught out at the end of the day.
We are near the Metro in an apartment.
Then the day runs on the service lift, not the driveway. Book a window with your building manager and send us the confirmed time.
Ask two things while you have them: how long the lift is held for, and the clearance height at the basement entry. Where the pantech will not fit under it, a cargo van goes down and makes more runs. The booked hour becomes the fixed point we roster the crew around.
How many haulers for a big home?
Two to three, and on a five or six bedroom Castle Hill home it is usually three.
A long battleaxe handle, an upstairs landing and a full garage each stretch the carry, and none of them move the price you agreed. Pianos, pool tables and safes sit outside what any crew will lift, so flag one at the start, along with anything heavier than 150kg, and the crew arrives sized for it.
Do you cover Castle Hill for home moves?
Business deliveries run across Castle Hill today. For a home removal, send your address and the date you have in mind, and we will confirm cover before you pay anything. We do not move pianos, pool tables or safes, and offer no packing or storage.
Those delivery runs already reach the apartments along the Metro corridor and the older streets on the deeper blocks, so lift windows and battleaxe handles are familiar ground. Send your date with either your floor or the length of your handle, and you will get a straight answer.
Send the handle and the rooms.
List the rooms, the handle or the lift, and both addresses. A price comes back in about a minute.