House movers on Long Island
A whole-house move is rarely decided by the living room. It is decided by the attic, the basement, the garage and the shed, which is where the volume hides and where the surprises come from. Counting those four spaces honestly is what makes the estimate hold up.
The rooms nobody counts
People estimate their house by bedrooms. Trucks get filled by everything else: the attic that has been accumulating since the kids were small, the basement with the holiday bins and the spare fridge, the garage with the shelving and the tools, the shed with the mower.
Walk all of them at the quote, including the crawlspace and whatever is stacked behind the basement stairs. An underestimated attic is the single most common reason a move that should have finished at four is still going at seven.
Attics, basements and what the boxes have been through
Attic access is usually a pull-down ladder, which is fine for a person and unreliable for a person carrying a box. Bring the attic down in the days before the move, a few boxes at a time, and stage it in a room on the main floor. Attic heat also has years of history in it: old tape lets go and old cartons split along the seams, so anything fragile is worth reboxing before it travels.
Basements have the opposite problem. Damp gets into cardboard and a box that has been sitting on a concrete floor since 2014 will not survive being picked up full. Check the bottoms before move day. Basement stairs are usually the narrowest in the house, and if there is a bulkhead it may be the better exit for the heavy pieces.
Garages, sheds and what cannot ride on a truck
Drain the mower, the snowblower, the trimmer and the generator, and run them dry. Propane tanks off the grill, and neither the tank nor gasoline goes on a moving truck. Paint, solvents, pool chemicals, pesticides, lighter fluid and aerosols are in the same category, so plan a disposal run or a household hazardous waste drop-off well ahead of the date.
The rest of the garage is mostly a sorting problem. Garage shelving comes down and travels flat. Hand tools go in small boxes because a big box of tools is a box nobody can lift. Patio furniture, planters full of soil, and a grill that has never been cleaned are all worth a decision about whether they are actually coming.
Working a multi-floor house
The load order runs from the far corners inward and from the top down. Runners go on the main path, the banister gets padded where the turn is tight, and door casings get protected at the pinch points. Bedroom furniture from the second floor usually comes down early while everyone is fresh, and the heavy first-floor pieces go on the truck in the order they will need to come off.
At the new house the order reverses, and the beds go back together before the boxes stack up around them. Decide before the truck arrives where the large pieces are going, because a sectional moved twice is time nobody planned for.
25+
Years moving Long Island
2
Counties covered, Suffolk and Nassau
7 days
A week we run crews
$0
Hidden fees on a quoted job
Licensed and insured. NYSDOT #42381, USDOT #4161235. Certificates of insurance provided for buildings that require one.
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