A Household Move from Matilija Avenue to Burnet Avenue in Sherman Oaks

Our office received a call from a family, who had received one of our flyers in their mailbox. In late July they wanted to move from their home on Matilija Avenue to another house on Burnet Avenue in Sherman Oaks. Both of these streets are residential.

The family needed to move two bedrooms and a dining set from the kitchen. But the unusual part was a vinyl collection, which was fragile and needed to be packed properly. Our support explained that we do the packing on our regular hourly rate, but the disposable materials like bubble wrap and packing paper would be billed separately.

A Family Move Overview

• Pickup: Matilija Avenue in Sherman Oaks
• Destination: Burnet Avenue in Sherman Oaks
• Property type: Detached private houses on both ends
• Crew: A team of three movers
• Inventory: A king-size bed frame with a mattress, about 25 boxes and 4 of them fragile, a twin-size bed and mattress, 1 wide wooden dresser, 1 tall dresser, 3 nightstands, a bookshelf, a toy chest, a school desk and chair, a large white dining table, 3 white dining chairs, a coffee maker, a record player and vinyl collection, a shelf for vinyl records and a standing mirror.

Loading on Matilija Avenue

We legally parked our 26-foot truck at a curb right next to a single-story house. Ulan and Emil worked with me on this move. The bed frames had to be taken apart to fit through the doorways and the family did it themselves. Our task was to load everything into the truck and wrap the fragile items.

I took care of the bedroom, Ulan and Emil were working in the kitchen. We laid floor runners to protect the flooring, as we do on every move. I wrapped all the furniture pieces in the bedroom in moving blankets to shield the surface and rolled lighter pieces into our truck using a hand truck. Meanwhile Ulan packed the record player into a box and padded it with bubble wrap. Emil packed the vinyl records and separated them with bubble wrap. After we put that into the truck, Ulan helped me with the heavier furniture like dressers, mattresses, the bookshelf and the desk.

Ulan unscrewed the legs of the white dining table and I helped him to carry it outside along with the coffee maker and chairs. We wrapped them in moving blankets to protect white surfaces. We also wrapped the white standing mirror in bubble wrap and secured it in the truck to avoid shifting.

Burnet Avenue Delivery

At the destination we parked in the private driveway. The kitchen was unloaded first: we carried the table in and Ulan put it back together. I brought the chairs and the coffee maker. Then we placed the mirror, record player, shelf for vinyl records, and the boxes with records in the new living room. Emil and I used our hand trucks to unload the dressers, nightstands, most of the boxes and the desk. Ulan placed the mattress for the king-size bed and stacked the disassembled bed frame pieces next to it in the bedroom. Then we did the same for the twin-size bed and mattress. The family assured us that they would put them back together without our help. The toy chest went to the smaller bedroom along with the school desk and chair.

After we finished unloading, the family looked at their new rooms, then they checked the vinyl. Every record came out the way Emil had packed it.

Planning a move in Sherman Oaks? See our Sherman Oaks movers page for rates, local tips and answers to common questions.

Kostya · Senior mover

Oct 9, 2026 3 min read

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