Family Owned Packing Services in Mesquite, NV

What the job involves in Mesquite

Mesquite is a straightforward place to work once you know it, and we have been working it for over a decade. Mesquite is small enough that access is rarely the problem; distance and scheduling usually are.

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

What a Mesquite 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 reason we survey first is that the three things that actually drive the price — volume, access and stairs — are the three things you cannot judge over the phone.

We would rather tell you a date is unrealistic than take the booking and disappoint you. That happens more often than you would think, particularly at month-end.

Moving around Mesquite

Most of our Mesquite work sits around Sun City Mesquite, Falcon Ridge and Downtown Mesquite, 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 St. George, Hurricane and Washington 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.

Mesquite runs on gaming and hospitality, golf and resorts and retirement services, 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 — Clark County included.

A move between Mesquite and the northern half of the state falls in an awkward gap — too far for a local rate, too short for a van line. We price it as what it is: a long day with one crew.

Who actually turns up to a packing services job in Mesquite

This is Justin and Miranda Ruuth's business, started in 2012 and still run by them. The crews are employed and background-checked, not day labour hired for the date.

That matters for the question nobody asks out loud, which is who is going to be walking through my house. You get the same company on the phone, on the estimate and on the day.

If something goes wrong, the person you complain to is the person who owns the company. That is worth more than a guarantee written on a website.

Booking a Mesquite job

The summer heat is the scheduling constraint at this end of the state, which is why an early start is worth more than a cheap hourly rate.

Month-end and the summer weeks fill first. If your date is flexible by a fortnight, say so — it is often worth money.

The call takes about ten minutes if you have these ready:

• 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.