Licensed and Insured Packing Services
Ogden, Utah

What the job involves in Ogden

Ogden is a straightforward place to work once you know it, and we have been working it for over a decade. With roughly 87,413 residents, Ogden is one of the larger communities in Weber County, and that shows up in the job: more flats and shared access, more parking restrictions, more jobs that need a lift booked.

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 an Ogden 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 Ogden

Most of our Ogden work sits around Historic 25th Street, East Bench, Ogden Canyon and Marriott-Slaterville edge, 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 South Ogden, North Ogden and Riverdale 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.

Ogden runs on aerospace and defense, higher education 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 — Weber County included.

The other thing worth knowing is that we work both ends of the state. A move from Ogden down to Washington County is one crew and one truck for us, not a handover to a partner carrier halfway.

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

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 Ogden

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.

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

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.