Call Us: 800-307-1302 Call Us: (323) 897-8906 Call Us: (323) 558-1047 Call Us: (323) 936-7843 Call Us: (747) 256-7611In September, we worked in a mixed-use apartment building. The client decided to move closer to the green area to a single-family house on Vista Grande Way in Chatsworth. The pickup was a unit in a newly built mid-rise apartment complex with ground-floor retail. Parking there is usually a challenge since the ground-floor retail doesn't let moving trucks just pull up anywhere. The client told us about the loading zone on the side of the apartment complex and said she'd reserve it along with the freight elevator. She told us not to come during peak retail hours, so it was agreed to do it in the morning.
Considering the details given by the client, two movers would be enough, so I took Garik with me.
Morning arrival. 18-foot moving truck.
The client contacted us three weeks before the move, which gave us time to plan properly.
The loading zone was reserved, so we began the load straight away.
The client took us to the second floor and asked us to start with the bedroom, where we found a single bed and 2 nightstands. The nightstands were already packed by the client, so first we placed our floor runners and then loaded the dolly and moved them outside.
While Garik disassembled the bed, I packed cacti in the client's boxes and carried them to the truck. When I was back, I helped Garik finish taking the bed apart, and we wrapped each piece in our moving blankets.
Done with the bed, it was time to take care of the cat's house. I wrapped it in a moving blanket and loaded it onto the truck.
Next up was the framed mirror in the living room. To extra-protect it, we used bubble wrap, which is billed separately as a packing material. Meanwhile, the client packed her clothes into our wardrobe cartons. We carried the wardrobe cartons to the truck and placed them carefully so they wouldn't crush the boxes with the cacti.
A sofa with a pull-out bed was wrapped in moving blankets, and Garik helped me move it to the elevator and right to the truck. We came back for the 75-inch TV and TV stand. The TV went into its original box, which we wrapped in our moving blanket. We wrapped the TV stand the same way. We loaded the stand first and the TV last, so the TV would be the first thing off the truck at the drop-off.
The drop-off point was a 2-story single-family house in a green suburban neighborhood. The client wanted to live close to nature, and since Wilbur-Tampa Park was just next door, it was easy to understand why she chose that place.
We parked at the curb in front of the house. Together with Garik, we took the TV, carried it to the living room, and came back for the TV stand. 3 wardrobe cartons came next. The client unpacked each, so we could take the empty cartons back with us.
The mirror went into the bedroom. After checking it together with the client, we didn't find any scratches. We brought the cat's house and unpacked it in the living room, right where the client wanted it.
Then came the bed. We reassembled it in the bedroom and placed it so there was enough space for the two nightstands, which we brought in and placed on either side.
I brought the box with cacti and left it in the kitchen, where the client arranged them on the windowsill. I helped Garik with the sofa. We placed it in the middle of the living room and removed the wrapping.
The job was done. We said goodbye to the client and her cat and went back to the office.
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