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Contractor Trade Shop Moving in the Sacramento Valley

Move the tool crib, movable benches and sorted material shelves by their new shop positions while your team keeps its vehicles and active job kits.

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Contractor Trade Shop moving in the Sacramento Valley: Murdock's crew at work
  • Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
  • Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
  • Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Contractor Trade Shop Move

A trade shop is part warehouse, part tool room and part office, and it has to keep sending crews out while it moves. An electrical, plumbing, HVAC or general contractor anywhere from Chico to Elk Grove usually has a tool crib with a check-out system, gang boxes coming back from jobsites, long material on pipe and conduit racks, bins of fittings, and a plan room where estimators work. Trucks and trailers leave at dawn and come back dirty.

We plan the move around that rhythm. The plan room, office and slow-moving stock go first. The tool crib goes last, after the final check-in, so no foreman is hunting for a drill that is on our truck. Each crib drawer, bin and bench is tagged with its position on your new shop layout, and long material is bundled and tagged by size.

Your vehicles, trailers and equipment stay with your drivers. So do fuel cans, propane and refrigerant cylinders, which need their own handling.

Who usually signs off
Shop owner or operations manager, with the tool crib lead approving the inventory release
Timing that works
Midday after dispatch or on a Saturday by request, and the tool crib moves last so the next workday's job kits are ready at the new shop.

What typically moves

  • Tool crib cabinets and check-out shelvesMoved after the final tool check-in, drawers taped and each cabinet tagged to its spot in the new crib.
  • Gang boxes and job boxesEmptied or locked by your foremen, then rolled on dollies or a pallet jack; the heaviest boxes ride on the truck floor.
  • Conduit, pipe and strut in full lengthsBundled by size and material, tagged at both ends and carried flat, supported so lengths do not bow.
  • Fitting bins and small-parts drawersBins keep their contents and labels, lidded or taped, and are loaded in aisle order for the new shelving.
  • Freestanding workbenches and visesBench tops are cleared; bolt-on vises come off and travel in a marked bag with their hardware.
  • Plan tables, flat files and estimating desksDrawings stay in flat-file drawers; plan tables come apart where they allow and are rebuilt in the new plan room.
  • Permit, warranty and job filesCabinets are moved locked, or boxed by your office staff in job-number order.

Access and scheduling

Contractor shops have a yard, and the yard is full morning and evening. Service trucks, trailers and material deliveries use the same gate. We check where our truck can stand once your crews have left, how far material has to be carried without crossing a trailer lane, and whether the roll-up door takes the longest bundles.

The easiest window is usually the middle of a workday after dispatch, or a Saturday on request when the yard is empty. If crews are reporting to the new shop at the end of the day, the tool crib and gang-box area are set up first there. If the unit is leased, tell us whose name goes on the insurance certificate. Valley summer heat makes steel boxes and metal material hot to handle by afternoon, so heavy carrying starts early.

Protection and handling

Most of what a trade shop owns is tough. The damage risk is to the building, and to small parts getting mixed. Door frames and new-shop floors are protected where heavy boxes pass, and gang boxes roll on dollies or jacks rather than being dragged. Small-parts drawers are taped shut so fittings do not spill from one bin into another.

Tool control stays your system. Your crib lead counts and checks tools out before the move and back in afterward; we move cabinets and totes in the state your lead hands them over, locked if they lock. Long material rides supported along its length, so strut and conduit arrive straight. At the new shop each item goes to its position on your layout, and your crib lead signs off before our crew leaves.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Service trucks, vans, trailers and job equipment
Your drivers and operators move them. Our crew does not drive or tow your fleet or equipment.
Wall-mounted or anchored material racks and shop fixtures
Your own crew or a contractor takes them down and anchors them at the new shop. We move the stock off them and any freestanding shelving.
Fuel, propane, refrigerant cylinders and chemicals
Your team transports them under their own handling rules. We do not load them.

Not part of our work

  • Driving, towing or loading vehicles, trailers, lifts or skid steers.
  • Moving compressors, welders or shop machines that are wired or plumbed in.
  • Counting tools or reconciling the check-out log.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Trade contractors across the Valley often work from small industrial units with a fenced yard: in Chico near Hwy 99, off Hwy 20 in Yuba City and Marysville, and in North Sacramento, Rio Linda and the Roseville and Lincoln industrial areas. Yard gates, trailer parking and the shop's roll-up door usually decide how the move day runs.

The crew that shows up

Three Murdock’s crew members at the back of the box truckTwo Murdock’s movers carrying a pad-wrapped table up the truck rampTwo Murdock’s box trucks staged outside a single-story building in the Sacramento Valley

Contractor Trade Shop Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Can our foremen still pull tools the morning we move?

Yes. The tool crib goes last. Crews check out their tools at the usual time, we move the plan room, office and slow-moving stock during the day, and the crib cabinets go on the final load after the last check-in. They are set up first at the new shop, so the next morning's check-out runs from there.

How do you move full lengths of conduit, pipe and strut?

Bundled by size and material, tagged at both ends and carried to the truck by two people so they do not bend. They ride flat on the truck bed, supported along their length. If the longest pieces will not fit a box truck, your team may prefer to haul them on your own material trailer, and we move the rest.

Will you move our service trucks and trailers to the new yard?

No. Your drivers and operators move the fleet, trailers and equipment. We plan around them: our truck is placed where it does not block your vehicles, and the yard gate stays usable. Some contractors park their vehicles at the new yard the night before, so the old shop is clear for loading.

Can you take our propane tanks and refrigerant cylinders with the rest of the shop?

No. Fuel cans, propane, refrigerant cylinders and shop chemicals need their own handling, and your team moves them. We pack and move everything around them. Tell us where those items are kept so we leave that area alone, and move them before or after our crew is on site.

Plan your business move

Tell us both addresses, the building rules you know about, and the dates you cannot move. We will send back a written plan and estimate.

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