What we bring with us
We show up with furniture dollies, appliance straps, moving blankets, and a hand truck rated for stairs, since a lot of Vallejo homes have a step or two at the entry that a flat dolly cannot handle. We also carry shrink wrap for dressers and couches so drawers stay shut and cushions stay put on the ride.
If the truck has a ramp, we check the angle before we load anything heavy, because a steep ramp changes how we carry a fridge or a sectional. A shallow ramp on a rental truck can be more work than a taller one with a lower angle, and we would rather find that out before the first box goes up.
What we ask you to have ready
Boxes taped shut and stacked near the door save real time, since we spend less of the reserved truck window carrying loose items in from other rooms. Anything fragile should be marked before we arrive, even with a single word on the lid, so we know to set it flat and load it last.
If there is a couch or a bed frame that has to come apart, tell us ahead of time. We carry the tools for basic disassembly, but knowing in advance means we plan the order of the load around it instead of stopping halfway through.
How we time the job
A two-person crew usually clears a one-bedroom apartment onto a truck in under two hours if the boxes are ready and the path from door to curb is clear. A house with a garage full of bins and a shed out back runs longer, so we ask what is being loaded from before we quote a window.
Parking matters more than people expect. A truck that has to sit half a block away because of a narrow Vallejo street adds real minutes to every trip back and forth, so we ask about the loading spot when we book the job, not the morning of.
What we catch before it becomes a problem
We check weight distribution as the truck fills, since a rental loaded heavy at the back can pull strangely on the road, especially crossing the bridge toward the East Bay. We also flag anything that will not fit through a doorway at the destination before it ever leaves your driveway, which saves a second trip later.
Straps get checked twice, once after the first layer goes in and again right before the door rolls down. A load that shifted an inch in the driveway can shift a foot by the time it reaches Sacramento, and we would rather add two minutes now than deal with that at the other end.