Office and business moves in Delray Beach

For a small business, the hard part of a move is the time the doors are closed, so the plan starts there. Tell us when you can stop working, when you need to be open again, and what has to work first at the new place: the phones, the front desk, the register or the server.

If the building allows it and your business can manage it, moving at the end of a week leaves the weekend for your own setup. Tell us the window you have, and we'll say plainly what fits inside it.

Staff can pack their own desks into labeled boxes in the last hours of the last day, while we take care of the furniture, files and equipment. If you'd rather we packed the whole office, our packing services cover that too.

We wrap computers, monitors and printers in quilted pads, keep screens upright, and load them where nothing will be stacked on top. Unplugging and reconnecting your network is a job for your IT person or provider, so book them for both ends of the move.

Records are boxed in drawer order, with every box numbered, so the filing reads the same way at the new office. Keep anything confidential, along with your backups, with someone you trust rather than on the truck.

For a shop, we move shelving, display fixtures and stock, and take apart anything that won't fit through the door in one piece. Stock is boxed by shelf or section and labeled to match a plan of the new layout, so restocking is a matter of opening boxes in order.

Commercial buildings can set their own rules for moves, such as a certificate of insurance before the day, a loading dock or service elevator booked for a set time, and move hours away from the busiest part of the day. Ask both landlords or managers for the rules in writing and send them to us, so the certificate names the right parties and both ends are booked.

Tell us where the truck can stand at each building and how far that is from the door or the dock. A long walk through a lobby, or a loading area shared with other tenants, changes how the day is planned.

Before the move, mark a floor plan of the new space with a number for every desk, office and room. Every box, chair and piece of equipment gets the number of the spot it's going to, and we place it there, so on the first morning people find their own desks instead of a pile of boxes.

Desks, tables and shelving that came apart are put back together in place, and equipment is left on the desk it belongs to, ready for your IT person to connect. If something isn't where you want it at the end, tell us before we leave.