Commercial Movers Rochester NY
Joe's Moving Co.
COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE
Commercial and Office Moving in Rochester, NY
Joe’s Moving Co. are commercial and office movers in Rochester, NY. We relocate offices, retail units, medical practices and warehouses across the region, working evenings and weekends so your business is open on Monday and your people know exactly where to sit when they walk in.
Eight years of commercial moves in this city, fully insured, with certificates issued for any building that requires one.
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Licensed and insured
Eight years in Rochester
Locally owned, not a franchise
Free written estimate
No obligation to book
Businesses we move
- Offices, from a six person suite to a full floor.
- Medical and dental practices, including the equipment that needs specific handling.
- Retail units and showrooms, including fixtures and stock.
- Warehouses and light industrial, including racking and palletised goods.
- Schools, churches and non profits.
- Internal reconfigurations, where nothing leaves the building but everything moves within it.
The move happens when you are closed
The cost of an office move is not the invoice, it is the days you cannot trade. So the default is that we move you outside business hours.
Evenings
Smaller offices, moved across one or two nights. Staff leave one building on Tuesday and arrive at the other on Wednesday.
Weekends
The most common option. You close Friday in one building and open Monday in the other, with the whole move run across Saturday and Sunday.
Phased
For larger moves, department by department across several nights, so no team is ever fully down and the business keeps trading throughout.
How a commercial move runs
- Site survey. We walk both buildings with you, looking at volume, lifts, loading docks, door widths, parking and the building rules at each end. Building management usually has more say over your move date than you do.
- A written plan and quote. What moves, in what order, on what night, with what crew. Plus the things that are easy to forget: who is disconnecting the IT, who is disposing of the furniture you are not taking, who is booking the service elevator.
- Labelling and preparation. We supply a labelling system so every item maps to a room, a desk or a zone in the new building.
- The move itself. Out of hours. Floors and lift interiors protected, furniture wrapped, IT handled to the plan agreed with whoever is managing it.
- Setup and first morning. Desks rebuilt, chairs at desks, crates delivered to the right person.
IT, copiers and the things people worry about
We move the hardware. We do not disconnect or reconnect networks, which stays with your IT provider, and we coordinate with them on timing.
Monitors, docks and desk equipment are crated and labelled per desk, so they go back to the same person.
Insurance and building requirements
Most managed buildings in downtown Rochester will not let a moving crew past the lobby without a certificate of insurance naming the building owner and manager as additional insured. We issue these routinely.
Furniture disposal
Most offices do not take everything with them. We remove and dispose of unwanted furniture.
What your staff need to do
- Pack their own desk contents into the crates we deliver, usually the afternoon before the move.
- Label the crate with their name and their new desk or zone number, using the labels we supply.
- Take personal items, plants and valuables home themselves rather than putting them on the truck.
- Leave monitors and docking stations on the desk. We crate those.
- Turn up on Monday. That is genuinely the whole list.
Where we work
Downtown, the East End, the tech park and the industrial estates on the western side of the city.
Questions from office managers
How much notice do you need for an office move?
Four to six weeks for a typical office, because the constraint is usually the building, not us. Lift bookings, dock access and out of hours permissions take longer to arrange than the move takes to run.
Can you move us over a weekend?
Yes, and it is the most common way we do it.
Do our staff have to pack their own desks?
Desk contents, yes, into crates we supply. It is faster and it means nobody loses anything. Everything else, furniture, storage, shared areas and the kitchen, is ours.
Can you provide a certificate of insurance?
Yes, naming whoever the building requires. Send us the building’s requirements and we will match them.
Close on Friday. Open on Monday.
Book a site survey and we will come back with a written plan and a fixed price for the scope agreed.