20 March 2017, 10:18

When moving to a new office or an apartment you may realize that the cost of your move with a moving company may differ depending on a number of factors:

1. The amount of your property
   The number of the thigs you move influence the number of the packing materials, the time for loading and unloading your staff, the size of the car body.
    
2. Characteristics of your things
   Some of the features of your things may complicate their movement. In case some items are very heavy, expensive, very valuable, have non-standard dimensions, or fragile elements, the disassembling, assembling, and packaging them will take longer and may require additional packaging materials. This will make the move more costly.
    
3. The distance between the addresses and the traffic situation
   This will influence on the time of the car rent and the duration of the move. If the move is from Moscow to the address located outside Moscow, the cost will include the hourly car rental and mileage, which the loaded car will have to go outside Moscow ring road.
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4. Conditions at the locations

• Convenient and wide access roads, an adequate height of the arched openings, a possibility to use trolleys will facilitate the move and reduce its cost.  
• No elevators in the buildings or a failure to use them will mean that the property will have to be carried manually, what takes more time and will increase the cost.
• If the house has an expensive or fragile finish, the moving company will have to provide it with additional protection. This will increase the cost of the move.
• Very long corridors mean that the things will have to be carried longer. This may raise the cost of the move. 

To understand the cost of your move, you need to determine the range of the services you order. Will you require packing and marking of the property, disassembly, and assembly of your furniture, hanging curtain rods, shelves, blinds, pictures, connecting the computers, printers, phones? Or will you handle some activities yourself?

To reduce the cost of the move, you can consider handling a part of the simple works yourself. We do not recommend to save on packaging, as this really helps to protect your things from damage.

Take 10-15 minutes to speak to a moving company. A professional technician will discuss the above factors with you and will help you plan the number of employees, vehicles and packaging materials, as well as advise you how it is possible to optimize the cost of the move. 

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