Business & Professional Offices

Small Business Office Moving in the Sacramento Valley

For an office of five to fifteen desks, your owner sets the priorities and we plan a move-day sequence around the inventory, access and equipment handoffs.

(530) 354-8089

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

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Planning a Small Business Office Move

In a ten-person office the move coordinator is usually the owner, who is also answering the phone, approving invoices and seeing customers that week. So the plan has to fit on a single page: which desks go where, what staff pack themselves, what the crew packs, and when the last computer gets unplugged.

Most small offices in Chico, Yuba City, Oroville or Elk Grove are planned as one move day, often a Friday or a Saturday on request so the next week opens normally. The walk-through tells us whether stairs, a long carry or a packed storeroom stretches that. Afterward the owner gets a short plan with the date, the order rooms load and a desk map to mark up.

What trips up small offices is rarely the furniture. It is the phone line, the internet install and the mail. Book the internet provider for the new address early, ask your phone provider how the business number moves, and file a mail forwarding request, so the new office can actually take calls when it opens.

Who usually signs off: Business owner who approves the desk map, packing priorities and date, with an office lead available at both doors
Timing that works: Usually one planned move day, often a Friday or Saturday on request, with phone, internet and mail changes booked ahead so the office opens on schedule.

What typically moves

Owner's desk, credenza and chairMoved as one labeled set and placed first, so the owner can work from the new office while the rest is set.
Staff desks and task chairsNumbered on the desk map the owner marks up; each desk, chair and drawer unit travels under one number.
Reception desk and waiting-area chairsWrapped and set near the entrance, so the front of the office looks open even if a back room is still in boxes.
Shared copier or multifunction printerLeased units follow the leasing company's rules; owned units are padded and moved upright.
Lateral files and a small fire safeFiles move locked or emptied; the safe moves empty, with the combination kept by the owner.
Staff computers, monitors and printersUnplugged, padded and hooked back up at the numbered desk; email and accounts are for whoever handles your IT.

Access and scheduling

A small business could be anywhere: a storefront on Colusa Avenue, a second-floor suite in downtown Chico, a converted house in Oroville, an office park in Elk Grove or Roseville. Each changes the plan. A storefront with an alley door loads quickly; an upstairs suite with no elevator needs more hands on the stairs; a managed office park may want an insurance certificate before it holds the date, and we send it to the property manager.

We walk both spaces with the owner, or with whoever the owner trusts to decide things that day. It helps to have one person at each address on move day who can say where something goes. If that is not possible, the marked-up desk map does the talking, and every carton carries a room name.

Protection and handling

A small office usually has a few pieces that matter more than the rest: the owner's desk, the reception counter customers see, a framed license on the wall. Those are pad-wrapped and loaded where nothing leans on them. Standard desks and chairs are wrapped and stacked in desk-number order, each one's screws and brackets in a bag stuck under its top.

Paperwork is handled the way the owner asks. Files with client or payroll information can be boxed and sealed by your staff and carried unopened, or moved in their locked cabinets. The crew does not sort, read or repack office records. At the new office the owner's space and the front desk are set first, then staff desks, then the break room, so the business can serve a customer before the last box is unpacked.

Who does what

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

Business phone number and internet service: Your phone and internet providers transfer service and install at the new address. We move handsets and the router as labeled desk items.
Leased copiers and postage meters: The leasing company or meter provider decides who moves their equipment, and the meter provider updates it for the new address. Check your agreement before the date.
Network setup and computer accounts: Whoever handles your IT, in house or contracted, takes over once the desks are hooked up.

Not part of our work

Sorting, purging or shredding files; the owner decides what moves and a shred vendor handles the rest.
Moving cash, checks or the contents of a safe.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Small offices make up most commercial space in Chico, Yuba City, Marysville, Oroville, Colusa and Willows, and much of Elk Grove, Citrus Heights and Roseville. Many are single-story buildings with a front door and a rear door on a shared lot, which makes one move day practical when the lot is clear.

The crew that shows up

Murdock’s crew rebuilding cubicle panels in an office, one mover on a step ladder

Murdock’s movers working the loading ramp of an open box truck

The Murdock’s crew lined up behind the truck on an orchard road in Butte County

Small Business Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

I own the business and will be seeing customers that week. What do you need from me?

Three things: a desk map marked with names or numbers, a list of what staff will pack themselves, and one person who can make decisions on move day if you cannot be there. The walk-through covers the rest. Marking the map carefully is the part that saves the most trouble on move day.

Should my staff pack their own desks?

For most small offices, yes. Staff know what is in their drawers and what they need first. Cartons and labels can be dropped off ahead of the date, and each person packs their desk and marks the box with their desk number. The crew packs shared areas such as the storeroom, break room and reception, or everything on request.

Our copier is leased. Can your crew move it?

Check the lease first. Many leasing companies want their own technician to prepare or move their copier, and moving it without approval can conflict with the service agreement. If they approve a move by our crew, we pad it, keep it upright and set it where you want it, and their tech handles setup.

We are moving from Yuba City to a bigger space in Roseville. What changes?

Mainly the drive and the building. The run down Hwy 99 and Hwy 65 adds time between loading and unloading, so the truck is loaded in the order the new office will be set. A Roseville office park may also have dock hours and paperwork a storefront never needed, so ask the new property manager for tenant move rules when you sign.

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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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