Who you're dealing with
FlatOut is a Christchurch partnership run by two University of Canterbury students. When you ring the number on this site, one of us picks up.
Co-founder
Day-to-day operations
Daniel started FlatOut and runs the day-to-day. He's the one who comes and looks at your flat, works out what it needs, and keeps the contractors and the customers pointed at each other. If you ring the number on this site during the day, you're most likely getting Daniel.
Co-founder
Admin and accounts
Rocky handles the side you don't see. Quotes, invoices, the paperwork with contractors, and making sure the numbers add up. He joined a few weeks after Daniel started, and FlatOut has been a partnership ever since.
Why we started it
Every November the same thing happens in Christchurch. A few hundred flats all need a cleaner, a trailer and a storage unit inside the same fortnight. Every contractor in town is booked solid. Students end up ringing round in the middle of exams, and the work gets done late, badly, or at eleven at night by the flat themselves.
Daniel had watched it happen enough times to think it could be done better — line the contractors up properly, deal with the scheduling, and let people get on with their study. He started FlatOut in September 2026. Rocky, a mate of his, came on board a few weeks later to take over the accounts, and that's where we are now.
We'll be straight with you: we're new. Starting in September meant we were late for most of this year's move-out season, so we've done a handful of flats rather than a hundred. This summer is our first proper run at it. What that means for you is that you're not a job number, and we can't afford a bad one.
Who turns up
Every contractor we use is a local Christchurch business on a signed agreement with us. We require them to carry their own insurance and show us the certificate before they take a job.
Your agreement is with FlatOut, not with them. So if something turns up broken or a job isn't up to scratch, you call us and we deal with it. You're not stuck chasing a contractor you've never met.
Leaving Christchurch for summer?
Tell us who's moving, when you're leaving and what you need — one submission covers your whole flat. Don't leave it until the last week.
Get My Move-Out QuoteTakes about a minute. The visit and the quote are free.
