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Hotel Moving in Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Guest-room casegoods and seating swapped floor by floor while the rest of the hotel stays open, with mounted pieces and room systems left to your installer.

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Hotel 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 Hotel Move

A hotel renovation rarely closes the hotel. The front desk takes a floor or a wing out of order, guests keep checking in upstairs and down, and the work has to stay off the guest elevators and out of the lobby. That shapes everything about how a hotel furniture move runs.

Most of the work is FF&E by room type. The brand's property improvement plan, or the owner's design package, sets out which casegoods, seating and lighting each king, double and accessible room gets. Our crew clears the old sets from released rooms, carries them down the service elevator to the dock, and brings the new sets up in the reverse order, placing each piece against the room layout. On a refresh, outgoing furniture usually goes to a liquidator or donation buyer, and we load it for them.

Back-of-house moves ride along: the sales office, the front-office workroom, linen and housekeeping storage, the breakfast room. In Sacramento, Roseville and the highway hotels along I-5 and Hwy 99 in Chico and Yuba City, those rooms are often the tightest part of the building.

Who usually signs off
Hotel general manager or renovation lead, with housekeeping and engineering approving each floor release
Timing that works
Floor by floor, or wing by wing: the front desk takes the rooms out of order, the old sets come out, installers do their work, new sets go in, and housekeeping returns the rooms to inventory.

What typically moves

  • Guest-room casegoods: dressers, nightstands and desksNumbered by room and set, so a king set never ends up split between two doors.
  • Mattresses and box springsBagged before they leave the room, both outgoing and incoming, so nothing touches a corridor wall or the service elevator floor.
  • Lounge chairs, desk chairs and luggage benchesWrapped and carted in room-set order behind the casegoods.
  • Lobby and breakfast-room seatingMoved at the quiet hour the front desk names, usually mid-morning after checkout.
  • Housekeeping carts, linen shelving and laundry-room tablesKept in service until the floor they supply is released, then moved in one trip.
  • Sales and front-office desks, files and workroom shelvingFront-desk computers and printers are moved on the manager's schedule; the hotel's property-management system stays with its IT provider.
  • Outgoing furniture for the liquidator or donation buyerStaged at the dock by room type and loaded onto the buyer's truck when they arrive.

Access and scheduling

Hotels live by the service elevator and the dock. We ask for the elevator schedule, the hours the dock is free of linen, food and laundry deliveries, and the route from dock to service elevator that keeps our carts off the guest corridors and out of the lobby. Occupied floors above and below the work floor usually mean quiet hours, so the noisiest steps, like breaking down old beds and hauling bagged mattresses, run in the middle of the day when most guests are out.

On a multi-floor renovation, the plan is a floor-by-floor calendar that everyone works from: the front desk, the installers, housekeeping and our crew. Our truck is booked to the day each floor is released. Management companies often ask for our insurance certificate before floor one; we send it made out to them.

Protection and handling

The damage risk in a hotel is to the building as much as the furniture: corridor corners, door frames, elevator walls. Before the first cart rolls, the crew pads the service elevator, guards the sharpest corners and lays runners over any carpet on the route. Carts are sized to the corridor, not overloaded.

New casegoods arrive boxed from the manufacturer. We unbox them in the room or a staging room the hotel chooses, remove packaging to the dumpster the property provides, and set each piece to the room layout. Anything that looks damaged out of the box gets photographed and reported to your installer or purchasing agent the same day, before it is placed, so a replacement can be ordered while the floor is still out of order.

Who does what

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

Wall-mounted headboards, TVs, mirrors and artwork
Your FF&E installer removes and mounts them, including blocking and anchors; our crew carries them after they come down.
Bathroom fixtures, PTAC units and room electrical
Licensed trades and the hotel's engineering team handle anything plumbed, wired or tied to the building.
Room status and return to inventory
The front desk and housekeeping decide which rooms are out of order and when a finished room is ready to sell.

Not part of our work

  • Hanging anything on a wall or ceiling, or any electrical or plumbing work.
  • Deciding whether a finished room meets the brand's standard; that is the operator's sign-off.
  • Disposing of outgoing furniture ourselves; the liquidator, donation buyer or hotel's hauler takes it away.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Downtown Sacramento hotels near the Capitol and Old Sacramento often have one shared dock on a busy street. Hotels around the Roseville Galleria area and along I-80 have bigger lots but busier service elevators. Highway properties along Hwy 99 and I-5 in Chico, Yuba City and Marysville tend to be exterior-corridor or low-rise, where the carry is longer but there is no elevator queue.

The crew that shows up

Two 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 ValleyMurdock’s crew carrying a pad-wrapped piece through a tiled entryway

Hotel Moving FAQs

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Can you work on the fourth floor while guests stay on the third and fifth?

Yes, that is the normal case. The noisy work runs during the hours your front desk names, our carts keep to back corridors and the service car, and each floor is closed off before we start. Tell us your quiet hours and any group blocks on adjacent floors, and we plan the day around them.

How do you keep king, double and accessible sets from getting swapped?

Every piece is tagged with its room number and set type before it moves, whether it is coming out or going in. Accessible rooms get their own color so their lower desks and different layouts stay together. We place to the room layout from your FF&E schedule, and the installer or housekeeping checks each room against it.

What happens to the old furniture on a PIP renovation?

Usually the owner sells it to a liquidator or gives it to a donation buyer, and they send their own truck. We bring the outgoing sets down to the dock, stage them by type and load them for the buyer. If nobody is taking it, the hotel's hauler or dumpster handles disposal.

Can new casegoods go straight into the rooms from the delivery truck?

When the room is ready, yes. We receive the manufacturer's delivery at the dock, check the carton count against the packing list, and take each set straight to its room. If the installer is still working on a floor, the boxes wait in a staging room the hotel assigns, not in a corridor.

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