Moving House

we dont have much stuff…… if possible we would like to move his car too, we are going from queensland to sa. can anyone reccommend a good removalist or even cheap truck hire please thank you……

Cheap removalist’s tend to break and lose things and dont have insurance. or they can hold your furniture hostage until you pay them more money or you wont see your furniture again. so you pay them a lot more money and you get your furniture. It’s best to do what the person above Say’s and to sell your belongings and buy new thing’s when you get to your new house. You could try shopping at somewhere like Ikea for cheap furniture and gradually buy better furniture.

Working as a removalist (or mover) in San Francisco recently, it has come to my attention that many people I have helped are leaving the area for–out of all places–Utah. What is it about Utah that makes it so intriguing?

Utah is actually a great place to raise a family or retire.
1. Utah is cheaper. You get more for your money. Bigger houses for the price of a small apartment in the bay area.
2. They are very conservative (which most bay area residents are not) but that means less government involvement in their daily life (take that for what it is worth)
3. A lower density of people, a lower crime rate. The biggest problem is traffic accidents, which are quite a few because Utah does have bad drivers.
4. Nature. They are surrounded by mountains and lakes. Beautiful snow covered mountains in the winter, green mountains in the early summer.
5. Salt Lake County is less than 40% Mormon. Which is where most of the population lives. So people who aren’t of that faith don’t feel uncomfortable in that environment.

Those are the major reasons. Unless you are in need of bright lights and lots of activity (found in cities like San Francisco and New York) most people can find at least one appealing aspect of living in Utah. It gets a bad rap, but actually worth trying.

i have just moved house and gone through 2 weeks of problems with real estate agents who dont know the law and i had to take action with a small claims court, a furniture removalist who charged twice as what they quoted, a telephone company that took 2 weeks to connect a land line to a house and took 3 attemps to get it right, repaire men who look at the problem and say gee i dont think i can fix that and to top it off go to a restuarant after making a booking arrive with drinks and be told sorry we didnt write your booking down and no table available, do others experience bad service everywhere they go or my standards to high! GEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Well you’re not nuts. I get bad service a lot. But not all the time. Some friends call me overly-cautious, because I make tons of calls and confirm everything. Because I KNOW they’ll screw it up if I don’t. That shouldn’t be happening in the service industry. I know, I’ve worked with the public.

Go to ebay.com.au click Buy – Services – Transportation,Shipping. Then just click on QLD and you’ll find a few removalists that are willing to move/deliver just one item.
You don’t need to sign up to ebay as these listings are classified ads and they all have phone numbers/email address for you to contact them for a quote.

A removalist is loading five boxes onto a truck. Each has a mass of 10kg and a height of 30cm. The tray of the truck is 1.5m above the ground and the removalist is placing each box on top of the previous one.

What is the total work done by the removalist in lifting all the boxes onto the truck as described?

The answer i get is 441 J, but the textbook says 1029 J. Any help with this one is appreciated
Thank you very much, both of you (but particularly Fred)

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Work = m*g*h (let’s use 10 for g…your book may use 9.8 m/s^2…we’ll soon see).

Here is a nice fast solution:

Each time we add a box, we need to lift it up 1.5 meters then 30 cm more for EACH new box. We can express this mathematically as…

WBox n (the work needed to lift up the n’th box)=

10*10*(1.5 +.3(n-1))= 150 + 30(n-1) = 120 + 30n

We want the sum of the first five of these…

5*120 + (30+60+90+120+150) = 1050 Joules

Yep, your book uses 9.8. OK? You get 5*117.6 + 29.4 + 58.8 + 88.2 +117.6 + 147 = 1029 J
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EXTRA CREDIT:
Now let’s be fancy (and also use 9.8)….The fancy part is invoking the equation for an aritmetic sequence so that IF they asked for 50 boxes instead of 5 we could get the answer WITHOUT having to do everyone seperately…which is a drag…’cause there are better things to do in life!

10*9.8*(1.5 +.3(n-1))= 117.6 + 29.4 n

Summing up a bunch of these is the same as multiplying 117.4 by whatever number of boxes you are loading and then adding on the sum of an aritmetic sequence.

To sum the first n terms of an aritmetic sequence (where d=29.4=the difference of adjacent terms), use the formula

Sn = 1/2 n (a1+an) where a1 = 1st term and an is the nth term…we want to sum 5 terms, so a1=29.4 and a5 = 147 = 5th term, thus S5 = 441

441 + 5 * 117.6 will be our answer which is 1029 Joules

which is what your book lists as the correct answer.

-Fred

EDIT: Do not include a whole bunch of decimal places like my friend below me. It is incorrect. (See "significant figures" in your textbook). In reality the answer (to two sig. figs. is 1030J) if you want to be a stickler.

how would i get all my stuff up there? like furniture.
what kind of truck removalist would i need? i want to move in 1-2 days, not a whole week.

thanks in advance.

It obviously depends on where you’re moving from, and the circumstances.
When we moved from Brisbane to Cairns (Kuranda really), as soon as we had a contract on our Brisbane house, we had our entire house contents except for what we wanted to take with us in car & trailer, put into a storage container. The container, sealed up, sat on the removalists property for a few months while we rented up here and looked around at property. When we found a house up here, the container then came up on either on a train or road (never did find out which) then local crowd delivered the container to our new house, still sealed up.
This saved on double handling and packing. Also eliminates the previous answerer’s comments about ‘multiple loads’.
The crowd we used was Moretons, but there would be many similar.

For example car transport, removalist costs set up for rental property, and costs for school. Also does anyone know if you have to change the rego on your car straight away or do you do that once your rego expires??

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I moved from NSW to QLD about 6 years ago. A lot has changed in that time, but I will help out with what I know.

For removalists costs, we looked around and found a truck driver who advertised removals on back journeys. Basically for a truckie, the return journey makes him no journey, so they will often do removals work on the back run. We had to do all the labour (ie loading and unloading), but I think we saved over $1000 doing it this way. Look in your local papers etc.

Rent – from what I can tell Brisbane is on par with many regional areas in NSW for rent. Have a look on realestate.com.au for properties.

Rego – we had a car that had just passed rego in NSW before we moved so we thought it would be a piece of cake changing over. WRONG. We had to get a safety certificate from a mechanic before we could change over. We got faulted for the simplest and ridiculous things such as one of our windscreen wiper water jets was aimed too high at the windscreen (all it took for us to fix was to put a pin in it and move it!!!!). And we had had to pay this guy over $100 before he started to do this dodgy inspection. We put it down to the fact that because they don’t do vehicle inspections for rego up here the mechanics see the opportunity to rip people off. So be warned.

We ended up driving our car around on NSW rego without a hassle till we sold it several months later. I don’t think you would have too many problems with waiting till it expires.

I don’t know about school as I don’t have kids.

Good luck with the move. QLD has a lot to offer

For example car transport, removalist costs set up for rental property, and costs for school. Also does anyone know if you have to change the rego on your car straight away or do you do that once your rego expires??

Hi

I moved from NSW to QLD about 6 years ago. A lot has changed in that time, but I will help out with what I know.

For removalists costs, we looked around and found a truck driver who advertised removals on back journeys. Basically for a truckie, the return journey makes him no journey, so they will often do removals work on the back run. We had to do all the labour (ie loading and unloading), but I think we saved over $1000 doing it this way. Look in your local papers etc.

Rent – from what I can tell Brisbane is on par with many regional areas in NSW for rent. Have a look on realestate.com.au for properties.

Rego – we had a car that had just passed rego in NSW before we moved so we thought it would be a piece of cake changing over. WRONG. We had to get a safety certificate from a mechanic before we could change over. We got faulted for the simplest and ridiculous things such as one of our windscreen wiper water jets was aimed too high at the windscreen (all it took for us to fix was to put a pin in it and move it!!!!). And we had had to pay this guy over $100 before he started to do this dodgy inspection. We put it down to the fact that because they don’t do vehicle inspections for rego up here the mechanics see the opportunity to rip people off. So be warned.

We ended up driving our car around on NSW rego without a hassle till we sold it several months later. I don’t think you would have too many problems with waiting till it expires.

I don’t know about school as I don’t have kids.

Good luck with the move. QLD has a lot to offer

We’re moving from Adelaide to Brisbane. What removalist companies would you recommend and what are some of your moving experiences?

one that has a good name check with the department of fair trading

make sure they are licensed

make sure they carry insurance

We’re moving from Adelaide to Brisbane. What removalist companies would you recommend and what are some of your moving experiences?

one that has a good name check with the department of fair trading

make sure they are licensed

make sure they carry insurance