Packing services in Sparks

In Sparks the packing crew and the warehouse are neighbors. Our office, truck yard and 30,000 sq ft warehouse sit together at 2277 Glendale Ave, so cartons, pads and vaults are never far from the job. Census estimates for 2020-2024 describe a city of more than 42,000 households where houses outnumber every other kind of home, and that shapes how a Sparks pack is planned. Book on our packing page.

A city of houses

With about 62 percent of homes single-family and detached, a Sparks pack usually includes spaces that apartments do not have: a two-car garage, a hobby room, a patio set and yard tools. Three-bedroom homes are the largest group at about 16,000, and four-bedroom homes follow at roughly 9,300. A four-bedroom house is a different packing job from a two-bedroom unit, and we measure it that way.

What 5.2 rooms looks like in cartons

Rooms in the Census sense are the kitchen, living and dining spaces and the bedrooms. At 5.2, the median Sparks home is a notch larger than the Reno median, so the pack often needs a second day of cartons for the extra room or two. Your estimator counts the closets and the garage separately, since a full garage can hold as much as a bedroom.

Homes built before 1980

About 34 percent of Sparks homes pre-date 1980, mainly the blocks around the older center of town. Those homes often hold things that have been in the family a long time: china cabinets, framed photographs, a piano or a clock. Fragile pieces get hand wrapping and padded cartons, and large items such as pianos are planned as piano moves rather than packed like a box.

What to expect on packing day

1. The crew arrives with cartons, paper and pads sized for your rooms.
2. Kitchens go first, because they take the longest.
3. Each carton is sealed and marked with its room.
4. Anything you chose to pack yourself stays on your list, not the crew's.

Packing for a Sparks storage move

If the goods are headed for storage, the cartons are packed to stack. They go into wooden vaults 7 ft x 7 ft x 5 ft in our own warehouse, and vault storage starts at $40 per month. Because the warehouse is in town, a Sparks pack can go from your door to a vault in one trip. Read more about vault storage.