What Our Sumner Movers Handle

Houses and Rentals

Residential moving is the bulk of what we run in Sumner, a city of 10,621 people with 4,492 housing units at the 2020 census and a vacancy rate of 3.9 percent. That low vacancy is the practical constraint on your date. Places go fast here, closing and lease dates land close together, and the window between handing back one set of keys and getting the next is usually short. We book full service, where we pack, load, move, unload and put the furniture back together, or any slice of that you want to hand off.

Apartments and Multi Family

Apartment moving in Sumner is concentrated around the downtown core and the blocks near the station, where the building, not the distance, decides how long the job takes. Elevator access, a shared loading area and limited street frontage all change the plan. Tell us the building and the floor at the estimate so we can size the truck and the number of movers to the access rather than to the square footage.

Senior Moves

Our senior moving service assigns a dedicated Moving Consultant who works through the move with the family rather than handing over a date and a truck. That covers downsizing out of a long held house, moving into a retirement or assisted living community, and sorting what goes, what stores and what is passed on. It is a slower paced job by design.

Pianos, Safes and Large Items

We run piano moving for grands, baby grands, uprights and antique instruments, including crating where the instrument needs it, and large item moving for pool tables, gun safes, commercial safes, appliances and industrial equipment. Cranes and hydraulic lifts are available where the item will not come out the way it went in. These are quoted separately from the household move because the equipment and the time are different.

Military Households

Military moving has been part of this company since the first year. Sumner sits inside the Joint Base Lewis McChord commuting belt, and we handle PCS, TDY, deployment and base to base moves for families here. We also serve families posted to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island out of our Oak Harbor location.

What Is Included on Every Move, and What Is Not

Knowing what arrives on the truck and what gets quoted separately is the part most people find out too late. Here is how we split it.

What Comes On the Truck

Every move arrives with moving pads, dollies, shrink wrap and floor and wall protection, and our movers disassemble and reassemble furniture as part of the job. We run a written inventory on the load so there is a record of what went on and what came off. None of that is a line item you add on.

What We Quote Separately

Packing labor, packing materials and custom wooden crating are quoted on their own, because whether you pack yourself changes the job substantially. Pianos, safes and other specialty items are their own line. Storage is separate again, and worth asking about early if your dates do not line up.

What You Should Carry Yourself

Keep cash, passports, titles, prescriptions, laptops, jewelry and anything irreplaceable with you in your own vehicle. This is standard across the industry and it is the one part of the day we ask you to own. Set those items aside in a labeled box before the movers arrive so nothing gets swept onto the truck by accident.