Commercial Packing and Unpacking in the Sacramento Valley

Packing is scheduled backward from the day each department can stop using its space. A supply room that feeds the whole office can be packed three days ahead if staff pull a few days of stock first. Reception and print areas usually go on the last afternoon. Department leads sign off their matrix before cartons arrive, which keeps a half-packed desk from being mistaken for a finished one.

Cartons, tape and labels are delivered ahead so staff can pack their own desks at their own pace. Buildings downtown and in the Natomas and Roseville office parks often want packing debris and empty cartons kept off shared corridors, so the crew stages them inside your suite. From June through September a closed truck gets hot by mid-afternoon anywhere in the Valley, so crew-packed areas are loaded in the morning, and heat-sensitive supplies are flagged to ride in a staff car or come off first.

A carton label here has three parts: the department, the new room number, and a short line on what is inside. Room numbers go on two sides so the label reads from any stack. Heavy paper and binders go in small cartons. Glass-front plaques, framed prints and break-room glassware get dish-pack cartons and a fragile mark.

At the new space, cartons go to their numbered rooms before any are opened. Then the crew unpacks in your order, usually working desks first, then reception, the supply room, conference rooms and the kitchen last. Shelves are refilled to the shelf numbers written at packing. Empty cartons and paper are collected as the crew goes, so rooms are usable as soon as they are unpacked. Staff open their own sealed cartons; the crew does not open them unless the owner asks.