Commercial moving
Move the Office Without Losing a Business Day
Offices, tech suites, retail units and warehouses across Salt Lake County and the Silicon Slopes corridor — scheduled around your business rather than through it.
Evenings and weekends are normal for this work, not a surcharge conversation we spring on you.
What an office move is actually about
The distance is the easy part. The downtime is the job.
Moving an office three miles across Draper and moving a house three miles across Draper are not the same job, and the difference has almost nothing to do with the furniture.
An office move has a hard deadline that is not a date but an hour: people need to sit down and work on Monday. It has a building at each end with its own rules about when a lift can be used and which door a trolley may go through. It has IT equipment that needs to come down in a known order and go back up in the reverse one. And it usually has someone internally — an office manager, a founder, whoever drew the short straw — running it alongside their actual job.
So the planning matters more than the lifting, and the lifting is mostly done outside business hours.
Where this goes deeper
Three kinds of commercial move
Office relocation
Desks, chairs, storage, meeting rooms and the contents of everyone’s pedestal. Labelled by person and by destination room so nobody spends Monday looking for their monitor stand.
Tech office moving
The Silicon Slopes corridor — Lehi, Draper, Sandy, South Jordan. Server and network gear handled in a planned sequence, with your IT team deciding the order and us doing the carrying.
Retail & warehouse
Shop fit-out, stock, racking and equipment. Usually overnight, because a retail unit that is shut is a retail unit that is not taking money.
The part that derails office moves
Building management, booked in advance
Nearly every office move that goes badly goes badly for one of these reasons, and every one of them is solvable a fortnight out.
- Certificate of insurance. Most managed buildings on the Wasatch Front will not let a moving crew through the door without one naming the building owner. It takes us a phone call; it takes longer if it is requested on the morning.
- Lift reservation. A shared service lift usually has to be booked, and in a downtown Salt Lake tower it may only be available outside business hours.
- Loading dock window. Docks are scheduled and sometimes shared. Turning up without a slot means waiting.
- Access hours. Some buildings prohibit moves during business hours entirely, which decides your schedule for you.
- Floor and lift protection. Masonite on the floors and pads in the lift — often a building requirement, and always a good idea.
- Parking and permits. Downtown, where the truck can legally sit is a real constraint worth checking before the day.
How we run it
From survey to Monday morning
Site survey, both ends
We walk the current space and the new one. Access, lifts, dock, parking, what is coming and what is being disposed of.
A written plan
Sequence, crew size, timings, and who is responsible for what. Including the parts that are yours — IT disconnection, staff clearing their own desks.
Building paperwork
Certificates of insurance, lift and dock bookings at both ends, confirmed before the week of the move.
Label everything
By person and by destination room. This is the single biggest determinant of how fast people are working again.
Move outside hours
Evening or weekend, so the business does not stop.
Set up and clear out
Furniture placed and reassembled, packing debris removed, and the old space left empty for handover.
The other half of an office move
What happens to what you are not taking
Almost every office move leaves a pile behind: desks that do not fit the new floorplan, chairs nobody liked, filing cabinets from an era when filing cabinets made sense.
We can clear it in the same visit — donation runs for what is still useful, disposal for what is not, and storage for anything you are not ready to decide about. See junk removal and delivery.
What it costs
How a commercial move is quoted
Local moves are billed hourly with a crew size agreed up front. Tell us what you're moving and we'll quote it.
Commercial jobs are quoted after a site survey rather than over the phone. Too much of the cost sits in access and timing — which lift, which hours, how far from the dock to the suite — for a number given blind to survive contact with the building.
Commercial moving questions
Can you move us over a weekend?
Yes, and for most offices that is the right answer. Evenings and weekends are ordinary scheduling for commercial work rather than an exception.
Do you provide a certificate of insurance?
Yes. Tell us which building and what they require and we will get it to management ahead of the date — most managed buildings on the Wasatch Front will not let a crew in without one.
Will you move our servers and IT equipment?
We move it; your IT people decide the sequence and handle disconnection and reconnection. That division works better than either side trying to do both.
How far ahead should we book?
Earlier than a house move, because of the building paperwork rather than our availability. Lift bookings and insurance certificates at two ends take time to line up.
Can you store furniture between leases?
Yes — if the new space is not ready, or you are downsizing and want to keep the surplus, it can go into our warehouse rather than into the new office.
Do you work in the Silicon Slopes corridor?
Lehi, Draper, Sandy and South Jordan are close to our Riverton base and are regular work for us.
Tell us about the space.
How many people, which buildings, and when you need to be working again.