In-home furniture moving and rearranging

Some jobs are not moves at all. A sofa needs to go upstairs, the dresser is too heavy to slide, or a new floor means every piece must leave the room and come back. Customers call it feng shui, spring cleaning or simply getting the house back in order. No job is too small to ask about, and our estimators say so often.

At a glance

• Heavy pieces moved safely
• Floor and wall protection
• Return furniture to its original spot
• Any number of rooms

What the crew does inside a home

The crew carries furniture and boxes from room to room, upstairs or down, wraps and pads pieces where needed and lays protection on floors and corners. They move items out of a room for flooring, painting or carpet cleaning and then move them back in place when the work is done.

Common reasons people call

Homeowners use this service when a piece is too heavy or awkward to move alone, when a remodel needs a room cleared, or when a new layout needs a second pair of hands. Others want help getting a home ready to list, and for that the page on home staging and de-clutter help goes further. A customer who hired two movers to take furnishings to a consignment shop wrote that they did an "outstanding job loading, unloading and protecting my items" (Mike S.).

Safety around heavy furniture

Tall dressers, bookcases and televisions can tip, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission runs a program called Anchor It! to remind families to secure them. When the crew places a tall piece, ask them to leave room for an anchor, and anchor it to the wall. The guides on moving a heavy dresser and moving a couch show how professionals approach those pieces.

How the estimate works

For a small job, a phone call may be enough: describe the pieces, the floors and the stairs, and the office tells you what to expect. For a larger job, an estimator visits and writes up the estimate. Both kinds of estimate are free.

Combine it with other services

Rearranging often leads to other work: boxes packed for a closet clean-out, items moved to storage, or a piano shifted to another room. Read about piano moving and full-service storage if your project grows.