Healthcare & Medical

Optometry Office Moving in the Sacramento Valley

Your equipment vendor moves and aligns the exam lanes. We move the frame wall, dispensing tables, contact-lens stock shelving and the front office.

(530) 354-8089

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

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Planning a Optometry Office Move

An optometry office is really two businesses under one roof. The exam side runs on instrument stands, chairs, phoropters, slit lamps and imaging that belong to a vendor's technician to move and set up. The optical side is a retail floor: hundreds of frames on wall boards, dispensing tables, a lens-finishing lab, and a contact-lens room full of trial stock.

We handle the optical side and the office around it. Your opticians count and pack the frames by board, since frames are inventory the practice tracks by line, and our crew takes down the boards themselves, the display cases and the dispensing tables, then sets them to the new floor plan. Exam-room cabinetry, pre-test furniture, the doctors' offices and the reception desk follow the same room plan.

Lane length is the detail people forget. Many suites use mirrors on the far wall so a short room reads at the testing distance, and the vendor aligns those mirrors and the chart projector at the new site. Plan their visit before the first patient, and leave that wall clear for them.

Who usually signs off: Practice owner or office manager, with the optical lead approving frame inventory and display placement
Timing that works: Close after the last dispensing appointment, move the optical and front office first, and reopen exams once the vendor has aligned each lane.

What typically moves

Frame boards and slatwall display panelsFrames come off first, packed by staff by board. Boards are numbered to the new wall plan and rehung at matching heights.
Lockable frame display casesGlass shelves pulled and cartoned separately; case bodies padded and kept locked if keys stay with the office.
Dispensing tables and fitting mirrorsPlaced to the optical floor layout so opticians can fit and adjust on reopening day.
Contact-lens trial and stock shelvingLens boxes packed by staff in shelf order and labeled by power range so the room can be restocked quickly.
Pre-test and exam-room cabinetryFreestanding cabinets emptied, padded and tagged with lane numbers; instrument stands stay with the vendor.
Front-desk and doctor-office computersUnplugged and padded; the practice-management and imaging software stay with your IT provider.

Access and scheduling

Optometry suites here are often in retail centers, such as the Roseville Galleria area, Chico's shopping strips along the Esplanade and Mangrove, and Yuba City centers off Colusa Avenue, or in medical buildings near Enloe and Sutter Roseville. Retail landlords usually want trucks in before stores open or after they close, and medical buildings book elevators and loading doors by the hour.

We schedule around the optical, not the exams. Frame boards and cases take the longest to reset, so they go first, followed by pre-test and the front office, while the vendor works the lanes. Practices open on Saturday often move from Saturday evening into Sunday on request. Send us the landlord's insurance-certificate wording at booking and we issue it on request.

Protection and handling

Frame boards and display cases scratch easily and are expensive to replace, so each board is wrapped face-in and carried on edge, never stacked flat. Mirrors from dispensing tables and fitting stations travel in mirror cartons. Case glass comes out and rides separately in padded boxes, marked by case number.

Frames themselves travel only as staff packed them. Our crew does not sort, count or unpack inventory. Exam chairs and instrument stands stay put until the vendor releases them; if the vendor asks us to carry a released chair, we follow their instructions for locking the base and protecting the upholstery. Hand-held equipment such as trial lens sets, retinoscopes and lensometers goes with the doctors or staff, in their own cars if they prefer.

Who does what

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

Exam chairs, instrument stands, phoropters and slit lamps: Your ophthalmic equipment vendor or its technician disconnects, moves and sets up each lane, including mirror and chart alignment.
OCT, retinal cameras, visual field and auto-refractor units: The equipment vendor, who recalibrates each one after the move. We do not carry imaging instruments unless the vendor releases one to us.
Lens edger and finishing-lab equipment: The edger vendor or lab technician disconnects water and power and resets it. Our crew can move the lab bench and cabinets around it.

Not part of our work

Counting, sorting or packing frame and contact-lens inventory; your optical staff does that.
Any electrical or plumbing work at an exam lane or finishing lab.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Eye-care practices here range from downtown Chico storefronts and older offices near Enloe to retail suites around the Roseville Galleria and in Yuba City, Natomas and Elk Grove shopping centers. Retail centers usually control when trucks may park; medical buildings control the elevator.

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

Optometry Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Our new optical has fewer frame boards than the old one. How do we plan that?

Decide which lines move to the new wall before the frames are packed, and have staff pack those boards first. We number each board to the new wall plan. Boards without a new spot can be boxed and labeled for storage at the practice, so nothing is left on the wall at the old site.

Can you take our frame boards off the wall and rehang them?

Yes, when they hang on standard slatwall, cleats or a rail system. We take them down, wrap them and rehang them at the heights and order on your plan. If the new wall needs new backing or blocking, the contractor finishing the suite installs it before moving day.

Who moves the exam lanes?

Your ophthalmic equipment vendor. Chairs, stands, phoropters and imaging are theirs to disconnect, move and set, and many lanes also need mirror and chart alignment. We schedule our work so the lane rooms are clear when the technician arrives, and we keep their cabinetry out of the way until they finish.

Can opticians keep dispensing while you pack the back office?

Yes. Doctors' offices, the storage room and the staff kitchen can be packed one evening ahead, on request, while the optical keeps selling. On the closing day we move the fitting tables and frame wall first, so opticians can start fitting glasses as soon as the vendor has the lanes ready.

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