Small office movers on Long Island
A small office move is a weekend problem. Friday afternoon everyone is working, Monday morning everyone has to be working again, and everything in between is sequence and labeling. This page is about that end of the job: a few dozen people, their desks and the machines on them.
Friday close to Monday open
Work the schedule backward from Monday morning. Monday needs desks in position, chairs at them, monitors plugged in, the network live and the printer talking to it. That means Sunday is set-up and test time, Saturday is the move itself, and Friday after close is tear-down and staging.
Leaving no slack is the mistake. If everything must be done by Sunday night and Saturday runs long, the buffer has gone. Give the weekend one spare half-day and the plan survives an elevator that turns out to be slower than promised.
One numbering scheme, applied to everything
Number every destination first: each office, each desk position, each storage room on the new floor plan. Then everything that belongs to a person carries their number. Desk, chair, pedestal, monitor, crate, box, the plant.
Print the new floor plan large, tape a copy at the entrance and at the elevator, and tape the destination number to each desk position before the first load arrives. When a labeled item can be read from the door, nobody has to be asked where it goes, and that is most of the speed on a small office move.
Workstations and the parts that go missing
The desk is the easy part. What disappears is everything small: monitor arms, keyboard trays, the screws for both, laptop docks, power bricks, the one HDMI cable in the office that works. Each machine gets its cables bagged and taped to it, and the arm hardware goes in a labeled bag rather than in a communal box.
Cubicle panels and systems furniture come apart in a manufacturer-specific order and go back together in the same one, so photograph a bay before it comes down and keep the hardware with the panels it came off. Sit-stand desks are heavier than they look, carry a control box and a motor underneath, and should be lowered fully before anyone lifts one.
What staff do, and what they should not do
Send one page to the office by midweek. Clear your desk into your labeled crate by Friday at four. Take plants, mugs, chargers, medication and anything personal home with you. Empty your pedestal drawers. Label nothing yourself beyond your assigned number.
Tell people what not to touch as clearly as what to pack. Monitors, docks and phones are handled by the crew and by whoever runs your IT, in the disconnect and reconnect order they specify. A helpful employee unplugging a workstation on Friday afternoon is a Monday morning support ticket.
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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Three professional-grade boxes, two rolls of tape and one of the moving blankets our crews use on real jobs. Yours to keep, for moves of two bedrooms and up. No purchase and no obligation.
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