Packing Services
Cedar Hills

What the job involves in Cedar Hills

We treat every Cedar Hills packing services job as a logistics problem first and a lifting problem second. With roughly 9,950 residents, Cedar Hills is a smaller community in Utah County, and that shows up in the job: largely detached properties, long driveways and very little kerbside constraint.

The estimate is written, the crew size is set from the survey, and the price does not move on the day unless the job does.

How we run a Cedar Hills job

There is no mystery to it. The sequence is the same every time, which is what makes it predictable.

• Materials brought to the job: cartons, paper, wrap, tape and wardrobe boxes
• Room-by-room packing so unpacking follows the same order
• Fragiles double-wrapped and boxed separately, marked on every face
• A contents list per carton on request
• Flat-pack and full-pack options priced separately so you only buy what you need

The part people underestimate is the survey. An estimate given over the phone from a room count is a guess, and a guess is what turns into an argument on the day when the truck is full and the hallway is not empty.

Nothing here is subcontracted. The crew that quotes the job is employed by the company that turns up to do it, which is not true of every quote you will be comparing.

Moving around Cedar Hills

Most of our Cedar Hills work sits around Cedar Hills Golf area and Canyon Heights, and each of those areas asks something slightly different of a crew — access, parking, the age of the housing, whether there is a lift involved.

We are usually in Highland, American Fork and Pleasant Grove in the same week, so a packing services job here rarely needs a separate trip charge — and if your move crosses between them, it is one crew rather than a handover.

Cedar Hills runs on professional services, retail and education, and that shapes who is moving and when: the busy weeks follow the local employers, not the national moving season.

Everything here is covered from our own crews rather than subcontracted to whoever is free that day — Utah County included.

A move out of Cedar Hills heading south is a route we run constantly. It is too far to be a local job and too short to be a proper interstate one, which is exactly the gap most companies price badly.

What licensed and insured means for a packing services job in Cedar Hills

There are two different things called insurance in this trade. Released-value protection is included by law and pays by weight — around 60 cents a pound, which on a television is close to nothing. Full-value protection is a separate product that pays to repair or replace.

Ask which one a quote includes. Most quotes include the first and are described as though they include the second.

We are licensed and insured, our crews are background-checked, and we will put the cover in writing on the estimate rather than leaving it as a phrase on a website.

Booking, timing and cost in Cedar Hills

Winter is the real variable at this end of the state. Ice on a driveway, salt walked through a hallway and a four-o'clock sunset all change how a day runs, and a crew that has not planned for it will lose hours.

Book earlier than feels necessary for month-end and for anything between May and September; those dates go first.

Five things make the difference between a quote and a guess:

• A rough inventory, even a phone video walked room to room — it is the single thing that makes an estimate accurate
• Your dates, including the one that cannot move and the one that can
• Anything unusually heavy or awkward: a safe, a piano, a tub, a treadmill, a fish tank
• Access notes at both ends — stairs, lifts, gates, parking, gate codes
• What is NOT coming with you, which is often the cheapest decision in the whole move

Call (435) 862-3080. We will ask what is moving, where from and where to, and give you a written number rather than a range.