Bigger lots, easier trucks, fuller basements
Scotch Plains and neighbouring Fanwood are mostly post-war single-family housing on generous lots, which makes them mechanically easy towns to work in. Driveways take a full-size truck, streets are wide enough to work from, and the carry from the door to the tailgate is short. That shortens the whole day, which on hourly work is the thing that actually determines the bill.
What lengthens it instead is storage space. Split-levels and ranches here tend to have deep basements, attached garages and floored attics, and all three fill up over a couple of decades. The bedroom count is a poor guide to the size of the job; the basement is a good one.
There is a steady amount of downsizing work in the area, houses emptying after many years. We are happy to walk through what is worth moving and what is not, and to say so plainly.
What we ask before we quote it
- What is stored in the basement, attic and garage
- Whether it is a split-level, and how the levels connect
- Any piano, safe, pool table or gym equipment
- Whether anything is being sold or given away rather than moved
