Moving questions, answered

We build the number from your actual belongings and how tough the access is, put it in writing, and stick to it. As long as what we move matches what you described, the move-day total is the same figure you signed off on.

Ours, always. The crew rides our own trucks and answers to Daniel, so there is no broker's cut, no day-labor, and no stranger stepping into your home.

You settle up once the job is done, aside from the small refundable hold on your date. Card, check, or cash all work, and you approve the final total on site before the truck leaves.

A small refundable amount to reserve the crew and the date, and that is the whole of it. The rest is settled once the job is done, and the estimate never costs a thing.

No. Stairs, a long haul down a rowhouse block, a piano or a gun safe: every bit of it is in the price before the first carton moves, so the total never strays from what you signed.

Every week of it. We start early when the heat allows, keep pieces shaded and out of the swelter, and load quickly so nothing sits out in the mugginess. Your window holds whether it is an August scorcher or a crisp fall morning.

We build it into the plan. The route is timed against I-495, I-270, and the downtown grid, we skip the worst of rush hour where possible, and your promised window still holds.

All the time. Tight blocks in DC, Takoma Park, and Old Town Alexandria often need a reserved spot or a temporary no-parking permit, and we arrange that ahead so the truck sits right by your door.

Yes, and the cost is baked into your flat price already. The bulky, awkward pieces go on the proper board with the correct straps and padding, moved by people who have handled plenty of them.

Yes. Many Silver Spring, Bethesda, and downtown DC buildings want a Certificate of Insurance and a booked freight elevator. Send us the building rules and we file the COI and reserve the elevator slot beforehand.

Yes. They go into a clean, climate-held unit, a week or the better part of a year, and the cost stays part of your written price instead of arriving as a bill later on.

A week or two of lead time suits most moves, and the busiest slots are month-ends and the first. If we have an opening we will still take a same-week or next-day move, so give us a ring to check.

We lay runners on the floors, pad the doorways and railings, and blanket the furniture first, so the old place and the new one both finish without a scuff.

All of it, from Silver Spring, Bethesda, and Rockville out through Gaithersburg, Wheaton, and Takoma Park, into the District, and across the river to Arlington and Alexandria, plus long-distance moves up and down the East Coast.