A commercial move is planned backwards from one question: what has to be working when you open again. Four answers, and everything else follows from them.
1
People can sit down and work
So we need
Desks rebuilt at their plan positions, IT boxed by desk rather than by type
A workstation has to arrive as a workstation. Screens, docks and peripherals packed with the desk they belong to, not sorted into a box of screens and a box of cables — which is what turns a Monday morning into a scavenger hunt.
2
Customers can be served
So we need
Stock and shelving in a merchandising sequence
For the High Road units this is the whole job. Shelving down and back up, stock crated in an order that lets you set the new space out line by line rather than opening everything to find one product.
3
Records can be found
So we need
Archives boxed, sealed and logged
With a chain of custody you can point at if anyone asks. Where records go into storage rather than to the new premises, they go in listed rather than stacked.
4
Nothing is still in a corridor
So we need
A floor plan finished before the move starts
Every crate coded to a destination position, printed in advance. It is the difference between a new office that is usable and one that is a stack of boxes somebody has to sort out.
Three kinds of premises
High Road shops and units
Stock-led rather than desk-led. Sequence matters more than anything else.
Small offices and studios
A handful of desks gets the same coding discipline. Small moves fail the same way large ones do, just faster.
Light industrial around Barking
Benches, racking, tooling and stock. Heavier and far more dependent on where a vehicle can get to.
Office removals — common questions
Can you move us out of hours?
That is how most business moves here run — evenings and weekends, and usually the only time the building and the street are available to you.
Will we lose a trading day?
That is what the planning prevents. The coding and labelling are finished before the move starts. What you lose is an evening or a weekend.
Do you handle the IT?
We move it; we do not decommission or recommission it. Servers and racks are lifted in coordination with whoever maintains them.
Crates?
Supplied and delivered in advance so your team packs their own desks, coded to the new floor plan, collected once you have unpacked.
We are a shop, not an office.
The stock is the difference, and the sequence matters more. It is a large part of what we do along the High Road.
Storage for what does not fit?
Yes — containerised and listed, which matters far more for business records and spare stock than for a household.
Moving the business?
Send both addresses and a rough idea of the size. We will walk round each one and come back with a written plan.