Office Moving in Frankston: How We Moved O'Brien Real Estate Frankston Through Their Renovation
Office moves are a different beast to a home move. There’s no “we’ll get to it eventually” — a real estate office, in particular, can’t afford to be offline for long. Phones need to keep ringing, listings need to stay live, and staff need a desk to work from the next morning. When O’Brien Real Estate Frankston needed to move out of their office for a full renovation, it wasn’t a simple A-to-B job — it was a full commercial move into storage, and then back into Frankston once the renovation was done.
As one of the busier removalists Frankston businesses call on for commercial jobs, this is exactly the kind of move we’re set up for.
A two-stage move, not a straightforward one
Most office relocations are one move. This one was two. First, we packed down O’Brien’s entire Frankston office and moved everything into secure storage so the renovation could go ahead without desks, filing cabinets, and equipment getting in the way or being damaged on site. Once the renovated office was ready, we came back, pulled everything out of storage, and moved the whole office back into Frankston — set up and ready to go again.
That kind of two-stage commercial move needs proper planning on both ends. Everything going into storage has to be packed and labelled well enough that the return move goes smoothly months later, not just chucked in a truck and sorted out on the other side.
The photocopier problem
Every office move has that one item everyone dreads, and for this job, it was the photocopier. Commercial photocopiers are genuinely heavy — often several hundred kilos — and nowhere near as simple to shift as a desk or a filing cabinet. Getting it safely out of a Frankston office, into storage, and then back in again without damaging it (or a wall, or someone’s back) takes the right gear and the right number of hands, not just enthusiasm.
This is the kind of job that separates a furniture removalist from a proper commercial mover. We’ve got the equipment and experience to handle heavy, awkward commercial items like this as a matter of course, not as a special exception.
What we’d tell any Frankston business planning an office move
Plan around your trading hours, not the other way around. Most of our commercial moves happen on weekends or outside business hours specifically so a business doesn’t lose a day of trade. For a real estate office relying on phone and foot traffic, that matters more than convenience for the moving crew.
Storage needs to be planned for the return trip, not just the move out. If your office move involves a renovation or a gap between locations, don’t just think about getting things into storage — think about how easily everything comes back out and gets reinstalled weeks or months later.
Heavy or awkward equipment needs a proper plan, not brute force. Photocopiers, servers, safes — anything seriously heavy needs the right trolleys, straps, and manpower. Get this wrong and you’re looking at damaged equipment, a damaged office, or a damaged back.
A good office move shouldn’t be visible to your clients. The best compliment we can get on a commercial move is that nobody outside the business noticed it happened — the phones kept ringing, the listings stayed live, and the team was back at their desks like nothing changed.
Looking for office removalists in Frankston?
Whether it’s a straightforward office relocation, a two-stage move involving storage during a renovation, or a job with awkward, heavy equipment like a commercial photocopier, we handle business relocations across Frankston and the wider Peninsula with the same care we bring to a family home move — just built around your trading hours, not ours.
Get in touch for a free, no-obligation quote for your Frankston office move.
