Packing Services
Midvale

What the job involves in Midvale

Most Midvale packing services jobs are won or lost before the truck arrives, in the survey and the plan. With roughly 35,989 residents, Midvale is a mid-sized community in Salt Lake County, and that shows up in the job: mostly detached houses with driveway access, and a mix of newer estates and older streets.

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 Midvale 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 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 Midvale

Most of our Midvale work sits around Bingham Junction, Historic Main Street and Union Park, 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 Murray, Sandy and Cottonwood Heights 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.

Midvale runs on technology, retail and healthcare, 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 — Salt Lake County included.

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

How to judge a packing services company in Midvale

Ask for the USDOT or Utah PSC number and check it. Ask whether the crew are employed or day labour. Ask what the protection plan is — released-value cover is not insurance, and most people find that out after something is broken.

Ask what happens if the job runs over. A company that will not answer that on the phone will not answer it on the day either.

We have been doing this since 2012 with a 4.9 average across more than 266 five-star reviews. That record is public and worth checking rather than taking from a website.

Booking, timing and cost in Midvale

Snow does not usually stop a move here, but it does change the timings. We build that into the estimate rather than discovering it on the morning.

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

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.