Packing Services
Highland

What the job involves in Highland

Most Highland packing services jobs are won or lost before the truck arrives, in the survey and the plan. With roughly 20,119 residents, Highland is a mid-sized community in Utah County, and that shows up in the job: mostly detached houses with driveway access, and a mix of newer estates and older streets.

Every quote is written down before the job is booked, so nobody is negotiating on a driveway with a loaded truck.

What a Highland job looks like

Every job follows the same order, because that is what keeps the estimate honest and the day calm.

• 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 Highland

Most of our Highland work sits around Highland Heights and Country French, 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 Alpine, American Fork and Cedar Hills 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.

Highland runs on professional services, technology and construction, and that shapes who is moving and when: term dates, transfer seasons and the end of a build all bunch the calendar.

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

Because we started in St. George in 2012 and came north afterwards, a Highland to Southern Utah move runs on one crew rather than two companies and a transfer.

What licensed and insured means for a packing services job in Highland

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 a Highland job

From November to March the loading end is the problem, not the driving. We plan winter jobs around daylight and grit the access before the crew arrives rather than after someone slips.

The last week of any month is the busiest, everywhere. Mid-month midweek is cheaper and calmer if you have the choice.

Have these to hand when you call and the estimate will be a number rather than a range:

• 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

Ring (435) 862-3080 and describe the job. You will get a written estimate, and an honest answer if the date you want is not realistic.