Project Notes
A two-storey house in Australia ordered dining, kitchen and bedroom furniture in Foshan: a marble-top dining table, a black dining table with six chairs, a marble kitchen island with green stools, an upholstered bed with mattress and a clothes rack, plus a slab table and cabinets.
Every piece travelled in a braced timber crate. Crates came off the container onto a tail-lift, were opened on the driveway at 11:26 and carried in by a three-man crew — the heavy slab pieces up the staircase by hand.
By 19:58 the same day the tables, island, bed and rack were assembled and in their rooms and the packaging was gone.
Stairs are the part of a delivery nobody quotes for. On this job they were in the scope, with the crew sized for them.
Dining, kitchen and bedroom pieces from their factories collected at one warehouse, checked and rebuilt into timber crates.
Timber packaging treated to ISPM 15 for Australian quarantine; tracking shared weekly.
Cartons and crates handed down from the container to the truck tail-lift; crates lined up and opened outside.
Wrapped pieces and the slab table carried up the staircase by three people; floors covered.
Kitchen island and stools, both dining tables, bed, mattress and clothes rack in place; wrap and crates removed.
The first piece through the door at 16:29 was a crated slab. Nothing on this job could have been “kerbside”.
Braced timber around every slab and cabinet means the piece can be tilted and walked up a staircase without a corner giving way.
Where a container cannot reach the house it is worked at the kerb and the crates staged outside — opened there, not in the hallway.
Two storeys and no lift means three people and floor protection, written into the delivery scope before the ship sails.
Crates, wrap and cardboard went back on the truck at 19:58.
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Yes, if it is scoped. On this delivery a three-person crew carried slab tables, cabinets and a bed up a staircase with floors protected, then assembled and positioned the pieces. Confirm carry-in and stairs in writing with any shipper — a standard freight quote stops at the kerb.
Solid-wood packaging must be treated and marked to ISPM 15 or it can be held or fumigated at the border. All timber crates on Source Foshan shipments are built from treated, marked timber, and the treatment certificate travels with the shipment.
Typically 12–20 days port to port to Sydney or Melbourne from Shenzhen, plus consolidation before sailing and one to two weeks for quarantine, clearance and delivery booking — roughly five to seven weeks door to door.
Planning a Foshan order that has to arrive assembled, not just arrive? Tell us the destination, the rooms and roughly how many pieces, and we will scope the buying trip, the packing and the door-to-door leg together — start your project, or read how consolidation and shipping and pre-shipment inspection work.
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