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Every Office Move Step Handled Before the Truck Arrives

Sep 3, 2023 | Moving Tips

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A solid office move checklist typically covers a planning window of 3 to 6 months and includes notifying clients, suppliers, and business partners of the address change, plus coordinating the physical move with a professional crew. Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa, a family-owned company founded in 2010, has completed more than 25,000 moves and handles office and corporate relocations alongside packing, loading, and transport.

If you are planning to relocate your office, a checklist is a major part of your project management. Depending on the size of your office and the number of people involved, that checklist can get quite complex, and the preparation period can run longer than it does for a home move.

As a moving company, we at Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa know what a big and important project an office move can be. Having a professional crew handle the physical move helps, but there is a lot of planning and coordination that happens before and after moving day. So let’s talk through the checklists that cover those parts.

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Building your office move checklist

You can find checklists for residential as well as business moves all over the internet. Rather than produce another generic version here, we want to point you toward some solid starting points and then talk about how to shape one around your specific business.

For starters, the people over at Instant Office provide a handy guide with steps you need to take surrounding the planning of your office relocation.

A few examples and templates worth looking at:

Customize your list

Most existing checklists share a few common elements, including:

  • a typical planning timeline of 3 to 6 months
  • notifying clients, business partners, and suppliers of your change of address

Depending on the size of your business and what you need from a new location, you may need to build in more time for the real estate search, lease negotiations, and related decisions.

Other details will vary considerably from one office to the next, simply because offices differ so much in size, layout, and the kind of work that happens inside them.

One item that belongs on nearly every office move checklist is finding the right moving company to support you. You have already found your way to our website. The next step is straightforward: contact us to get a free estimate for your office move.

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Most office moves in the Tampa Bay area benefit from booking a moving company at least six to eight weeks out, and larger multi-floor offices may need more lead time than that. Movers need to know your inventory, floor access, elevator reservations, and parking restrictions before they can give you an accurate quote.

Waiting until the last few weeks compresses the planning on both sides and increases the chance of miscommunication on moving day, which is where most problems actually come from.

For local office moves in the Tampa area, Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa prices by the hour with one rate that covers the crew and truck. You get that rate before booking, not after the truck pulls away. What changes with an office move is the scope: more furniture, more fragile equipment, and often tighter building access windows mean the job typically takes longer than a comparable home move.

We walk through your inventory before quoting so the number we give you reflects what the job actually involves.

That falls on your IT team or a vendor you hire separately. Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa handles the physical transport of desks, chairs, filing cabinets, monitors, and boxed equipment, but we do not disconnect servers, unplug network hardware, or reconfigure anything on the other end. Knowing that boundary before moving day keeps everyone's expectations aligned.

If your office has a server room or specialized equipment, flag that early so we can plan around it rather than discover it at 8 a.m. on move day.

Florida's default carrier liability is 60 cents per pound per item, which means a 10-pound monitor worth 800 dollars would be covered for six dollars under that standard. Brothers Easy Moving of Tampa carries two million dollars in liability coverage, but that is not the same as full-value protection for your specific items. We explain the difference between basic valuation and full-value protection before moving day, not after a claim.

Check with your own business insurance provider as well, since some commercial policies include coverage during a move and some do not.

Yes. Some Tampa Bay office moves require a phased approach, especially when a new lease start date does not line up exactly with the end of the old one. We use our own trucks and crews rather than brokers, so we can coordinate multi-day jobs without handing your furniture and equipment off to an unknown third party mid-move.

If you need interim storage, tell us during the estimate conversation so we can factor that into the plan from the start rather than improvise it later.

Want a straight answer for your own move? Call or text (813) 505-2560, request a free estimate, or send us a note. A Brothers estimator replies, not a bot.

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