Moving Company
Orem

What the job involves in Orem

Orem is a straightforward place to work once you know it, and we have been working it for over a decade. With roughly 97,182 residents, Orem is one of the larger communities in Utah 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 Orem job

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

• A survey that sets the crew size and the truck, in writing
• Protection installed before the first item moves
• Wrapping and padding done in the property, not in the truck
• A load built to carry, with weight low and square
• Placement and reassembly at the destination

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 Orem

Most of our Orem work sits around Sharon Park, Cascade, Northgate and University Place area, 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 Provo, Lindon and Vineyard in the same week, so a moving company job here rarely needs a separate trip charge — and if your move crosses between them, it is one crew rather than a handover.

Orem runs on higher education, technology and retail, 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 Orem 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 moving company job in Orem

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 Orem

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.

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

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.