Packing Services
Smithfield

What the job involves in Smithfield

We treat every Smithfield packing services job as a logistics problem first and a lifting problem second. With roughly 14,408 residents, Smithfield is a mid-sized community in Cache 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 Smithfield 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 Smithfield

Most of our Smithfield work sits around Smithfield centre and Birch Creek, 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 North Logan, Logan and Providence 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.

Smithfield runs on agriculture, manufacturing 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 — Cache County included.

Because we started in St. George in 2012 and came north afterwards, a Smithfield 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 Smithfield

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 Smithfield

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.