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Moving Crate Hire - Manly & Freshwater

Wombat Crates delivers and collects plastic moving crates free across Manly & Freshwater, including Manly, Fairlight, Balgowlah, Seaforth, Freshwater, Queenscliff, Clontarf and North Curl Curl. Every hire includes two weeks, delivery and collection, and label cards on every crate - with no bond and no deposit.

Suburbs we cover in Manly & Freshwater

  • Manly
  • Fairlight
  • Balgowlah
  • Seaforth
  • Freshwater
  • Queenscliff
  • Clontarf
  • North Curl Curl

Moving around Manly & Freshwater: what to expect

Manly, Fairlight and Queenscliff are walk-up country. Three-storey art deco and 1960s blocks with a shared entry, a narrow landing and no lift are the norm, so we deliver nested stacks to the ground-floor entry and leave a dolly. Carrying two or three empty crates up a flight beats hauling a flat pack of cardboard you still have to tape together.

Parking is the part people underestimate. Around the Corso, East Esplanade and Freshwater village most kerbside space is metered or two-hour, and in summer it is gone by nine. A booked two-hour window in the early morning is the difference between a ten-minute drop and the driver circling. If your building has a loading zone or a driveway we can use, tell us.

Balgowlah, Seaforth, Clontarf and North Curl Curl swing back to houses, often on a hillside with a run of steps down from the road or a garage tucked under the house. We work to the door rather than the kerb, and if there are more than about fifteen steps we bring a second person instead of leaving you a stack at the top.

Salt, sand and a sudden shower do nothing to a sealed crate with an attached lid, which is the main reason people around here stop buying cardboard once they have tried it.

Delivery windows
Two-hour windows seven days, with early slots before the Corso fills up.
Typical homes
Art deco walk-ups, duplexes, and hillside houses above the beaches.
Access notes
No-lift walk-ups, stairs from the street, timed and metered beach parking.
Getting around
No train. The Manly ferry and the B-Line along Pittwater Road. Near Manly Corso and Freshwater Beach.

How it works

  1. Choose your pack based on your home size
  2. Book a 2-hour delivery window, 7 days a week including Sundays
  3. Pack, move, and we'll collect from your new place when you're done
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