Dental Office moving in the Sacramento Valley: Murdock's crew at work

Healthcare & Medical

Dental Practice Moving Across the Sacramento Valley

Your equipment tech moves chairs, pumps and x-ray. Our crew handles reception, the business office, break room and storage, starting early in summer heat.

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Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Dental Office Move

When a dental practice in Chico, Yuba City, Sacramento or Roseville changes address, three groups share the work. Your dental supply company's technician moves the clinical equipment: chairs, delivery units, lights, the compressor and vacuum pump, and the x-ray and pan units. Your staff move what belongs in their hands alone: patient records, controlled substances, and the sterilization area's instruments. Our crew moves everything else, which in most practices is the bulk of the volume.

It covers the reception desk and waiting room, the business office, the doctors' offices, the break room, and a storage room stacked with gloves, bibs and trays. We plan it backward from the technician's pull and install dates, and we plan it early in the day. A July move in the Valley means the truck is loaded before the parking lot starts giving back heat, and heat-sensitive supplies go in a staff car rather than the truck box. You can read how we divide other clinic jobs on our healthcare moving page.

Who usually signs off: Office manager or practice administrator, with the owner dentist choosing which days the practice closes
Timing that works: Pick closure days around your own patient book, start loading at first light from June through September, and set weekend work around the days the dental tech can reinstall.

What typically moves

Front desk and patient check-in counterSections come apart at their joints with hardware bagged per section; card terminals and label printers are tagged to the station they served.
Waiting-room chairs, side tables and children's cornerWrapped and loaded last so they come off first, giving the front of the practice a finished look on reopening day.
Business-office desks and insurance filesLocked files ride locked, and keys reach the office manager in an envelope marked with each cabinet's number.
Doctors' offices and consultation roomsEach room is packed and labeled as a group: desk, bookcase, chair, and framed licenses in picture cartons.
Staff break room and lockersTables, chairs, microwave and the emptied refrigerator are padded and set in the new break room; staff clear their lockers first.
Supply and storage room shelvingConsumables are boxed shelf by shelf. Heat-sensitive materials are packed apart so staff can carry them in an air-conditioned car.

Access and scheduling

Summer reshapes the day. From June through September the crew starts at first light, so the long carries across a Chico or Yuba City parking lot are done before mid-afternoon, when Valley heat makes a loaded dolly hard going and the truck box turns into an oven. In winter, tule fog on Hwy 99 and I-5 can slow an early departure between Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento, so the drive gets a margin.

Buildings add their own rules. Medical office buildings near Enloe in Chico, Adventist Health / Rideout in Marysville, Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, and Sutter Roseville or Kaiser Permanente Roseville usually want an elevator booked ahead, a loading slot, and an insurance certificate listing the owner and manager as holders, which we issue on request. A stand-alone practice on a Yuba City side street may have one back door and a shared lot. We walk both sites before a date is set.

Protection and handling

Reception counters and office casework show every scrape, so each piece is pad-wrapped, moved upright, and set down on floor runners once inside. Mirrors and glass tops ride upright, each in a carton of its own. The crew unplugs, pads and plugs back in the front-desk computers, monitors and receipt printers; the practice software, phones and network stay with your IT contact.

Heat is the other hazard. Wax, adhesives, impression materials and some cleaning chemicals do badly inside a closed truck on a hot afternoon, so those cartons are set aside as a marked group and your staff decide how they travel. Records, controlled substances and sterilization instruments stay off our truck entirely; your team seals and carries them. The chairs, pumps and x-ray wait for your dental technician.

Who does what

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

Chairs, delivery units and lights in each operatory, plus the compressor and vacuum pump: The dental supply company's technician takes them out, moves them on the company's own schedule, then installs and tests them in the new operatories.
Intraoral x-ray and panoramic units: The imaging vendor's technician removes, relocates and calibrates them and tells the practice what paperwork the new location requires.
Air, water and suction connections in each operatory: The technician or your build-out contractor's plumber. Our crew does not connect or cap any line.

Not part of our work

Opening or boxing patient charts, backup drives and records cartons; your staff seal those and carry them.
Drug-cabinet contents, prescription pads and sterilization instruments; the dentist and clinical staff transport those themselves.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Valley dental offices sit in varied buildings: medical offices around Enloe and off the Esplanade in Chico, storefronts on Colusa Avenue in Yuba City, suites near Adventist Health / Rideout in Marysville, and newer buildings in Natomas, Roseville and Rocklin. A practice moving between towns adds a run on Hwy 99, Hwy 70 or I-80, which sets the crew's start time.

The crew that shows up

Three Murdock’s crew members at the back of the box truck

Two Murdock’s movers carrying a pad-wrapped table up the truck ramp

Two Murdock’s box trucks staged outside a single-story building in the Sacramento Valley

Dental Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Can the practice stay open while you pack the storage room and break room?

Yes. On request, our crew packs the storage room, break room and doctors' offices on an evening before closure, so the clinical rooms keep running until the last patient. Set aside a few days of consumables, and we mark those cartons to open first at the new suite.

We are moving in August. How do you handle the heat?

We start at first light and put the heaviest carrying in the morning. The crew plans shade and water breaks, and the truck is loaded in unloading order so doors stand open for less time. Your staff take heat-sensitive supplies in their own cars, and the break-room refrigerator runs again before perishables arrive.

Our equipment technician is booked for a Monday install. What does your crew do over the weekend?

We move the reception area, business office, break room and storage over the weekend on request, and leave the operatories clear and labeled for the technician. Send us the install order and we keep those rooms free of cartons, so the tech is not working around stacked boxes on Monday morning.

Our practice is relocating from Yuba City to Roseville. What changes with the longer drive?

Mainly the start time and the number of truck trips. A Hwy 99 and Hwy 65 run adds travel between loads, so we size the truck to finish in fewer trips and start early. The Roseville building will likely want an elevator booking and a certificate of insurance, so ask its property manager for move-in rules at signing.

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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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