Warehouse, Ag & Light Industrial

Light Manufacturing Office Moving in the Sacramento Valley

Move the customer-facing office and staff rooms around production handoffs, with shop equipment assigned to its own vendor.

(530) 354-8089

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

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Planning a Light Manufacturing Office Move

In a light manufacturing plant, the front of the building and the floor behind it move on different schedules. The machines need an equipment mover, anchoring and a restart plan. The offices, inspection room and staff areas need a crew, cartons and a floor plan. Plants from Chico to Elk Grove usually have an easier time moving the office side first, in the days before a planned shutdown, so the new building is set up for people before the machines arrive.

That office side is our part. Reception and order-entry desks, engineering flat files, the inspection room's benches and cabinets, the break room, freestanding lockers and safety postings are packed and carried to a room-by-room plan. Presses, mills, lathes, molding machines and anything bolted to the floor belong to your equipment mover, and when both need the same door, your plant manager decides who goes first.

Who usually signs off: Plant manager or operations owner, with the office lead and floor supervisor approving the room sequence
Timing that works: A planned production shutdown or holiday week, with office rooms moved in the days before the machines go, so staff areas are ready when the floor restarts.

What typically moves

Reception and order-entry desksMoved after the last customer call of the day and reconnected first at the new building.
Engineering flat files and drawing cabinetsDrawers are taped shut with drawings in place, and cabinets travel level so sheets do not slide.
Inspection room benches and gauge cabinetsBenches and emptied cabinets move; gauges, micrometers and fixtures go with your quality lead.
Controlled-document binders and SDS stationsKept in shelf order and set up where your safety lead marks, so postings are back before the floor restarts.
Freestanding employee lockers and benchesEmptied by employees, carried upright and set against the wall your plan shows.
Break-room tables, chairs and appliance cartsWrapped and loaded early; a plumbed coffee or water unit stays for the plumber.
Office and inspection-room computersWrapped for the trip and returned to the same desk. Anything linked to measuring equipment waits for your quality lead.

Access and scheduling

Manufacturing buildings usually have one good door for heavy freight and a smaller one for people. When the equipment mover and our crew are on site in the same week, the plant manager decides who gets the freight door and when. We ask for the equipment mover's schedule early and plan around it, usually moving office rooms through the staff entrance while machinery goes out the back.

If the plant keeps running, staff areas are moved after a shift, one room at a time, and employees are pointed to a temporary break area. A Saturday move is available on request where the floor is idle. Industrial parks such as the Chico Municipal Airport business park and McClellan Park often want the owner or park manager named on our insurance certificate ahead of the move.

Protection and handling

Shop dust and oil travel. Before office pieces cross any part of the floor they are wrapped, and the carry stays on the walkway your supervisor marks, away from machine areas. Upholstered chairs go in covers. Flat files and gauge cabinets travel with drawers taped and the heaviest drawers at the bottom.

The inspection room gets its own plan. Your quality lead removes and packs the gauges and fixtures and decides whether any need a calibration check after the move, and our crew moves the benches and empty cabinets. Granite surface plates are heavy and easy to chip, so they go with your equipment mover. At the new building we set up inspection and the front desk before the staff areas, and we walk each room with your office lead.

Who does what

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

Presses, CNC machines, molding machines and other production equipment: Your machinery mover or rigger handles disconnection, lifting, transport, anchoring and restart. Our crew does not move production machinery.
Gauges, measuring instruments and granite surface plates: Your quality lead packs the instruments and arranges any calibration; surface plates go with your machinery mover.
Compressed-air drops, power drops and anchored lockers: Your electrician or building contractor. Our crew moves freestanding pieces only.

Not part of our work

Moving, lifting or rigging production machinery, including small benchtop machines bolted to a stand.
Handling chemicals, coolant, oils or anything that needs its own shipping papers.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Light manufacturers in the Valley work out of north Chico near the airport, the older industrial streets of Yuba City and Marysville, McClellan Park, and business parks in Roseville and Rocklin. Many are in buildings that pair a small office with a large shop, so the office move and the machinery move share one lot and, often, one freight door.

The crew that shows up

Murdock’s crew rolling a shrink-wrapped piece on dollies through a building lobby

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

Light Manufacturing Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Should the office move before or after our machines?

Usually before. Moving the office side in the days before your shutdown means the new building has a working front desk, inspection room and break room when the machines arrive. It also keeps our crew away from the freight door when your equipment mover needs it. Your plant manager sets the final order.

Who handles the gauges and instruments in our inspection room?

Your quality lead. Gauges, micrometers, height stands and fixtures are packed by your team, often in their own cases, and anything that needs a calibration check afterward is scheduled by your lead. We move the benches, cabinets and shelving. Surface plates go with your equipment mover because of their weight.

Can the break room and lockers move while the floor keeps running?

Yes, after a shift. Employees empty their lockers, your supervisor sets up a temporary break area, and we move the room in one visit. Lockers go back in the same wall order at the new building, so people find their own. That covers freestanding lockers; anchored banks are for your contractor.

What happens to our safety data sheet binders and wall postings?

Your safety lead decides where they go first. We pack binders in shelf order and postings flat, in a carton marked for the new posting location, and unload them early so they can go back up before the floor restarts. Anything your team needs during the move itself stays with them.

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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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