Movers & Co provides commercial moving services in Lancaster, PA for offices, retail stores, practices, and light industrial spaces across Lancaster County and Central Pennsylvania. The move is scheduled around your operating hours, not ours, and it is run as a project with one contact rather than as a truck that turns up.
For a business, the moving invoice is rarely the real cost. The real cost is the days you cannot trade, the staff standing around, and the equipment that arrives damaged on a Monday morning. Every decision on this page is aimed at that number instead of the other one.
Why Lancaster Businesses Hire Movers & Co
One contact from scope to punch list
You get a single coordinator who holds the scope, the schedule, the building paperwork, and the floor plan. No calling a dispatcher to re-explain your own move, and no gaps between the person who quoted it and the crew who runs it.
We work when you are closed
Evenings, overnights, and weekends are normal for us. Most Lancaster businesses we move close on a Friday and open in the new space on a Monday, which means the truck arrives long after your last customer has left.
Labeled to a floor plan, not to a hallway
Every workstation, chair, and carton is tagged to a numbered destination before it moves. Items land in the right room against a plan you approved, so your staff sit down and work instead of hunting for their own monitor.
Paperwork your landlord will accept
Property managers on both ends usually want insurance evidence, proof of licensing, and permitted hours agreed in advance. We supply that directly to the building rather than leaving you to chase it the week of the move.
Licensed, Insured, and Easy to Verify
Your building will ask for these before it lets a truck onto the property. Here they are up front.
USDOT Number
3195256
MC Docket Number
1290652
Pennsylvania PUC License
8923115
Insurance
Liability and workers compensation carried on every job
Household and office moves inside Pennsylvania are regulated by the Public Utility Commission, and our vehicles are subject to state and federal safety audits. Ask and we will send a current certificate of insurance straight to your property manager, naming the building as additional insured if that is what the lease requires.
Businesses We Move in Lancaster County
Eight kinds of commercial move, each planned differently.
Professional offices
Law firms, accountants, agencies, and insurance offices. Desks, files, and IT, moved between Friday close and Monday open.
Medical and dental practices
Reception, exam room furniture, cabinetry, and patient records moved in sealed, numbered cartons against an inventory list.
Retail stores
Fixtures, shelving, racking, displays, and stock, sequenced so the new floor can be set rather than dumped.
Restaurants and cafes
Tables, seating, shelving, and heavy kitchen equipment, with the awkward pieces surveyed before the date is confirmed.
Warehouses and light industrial
Racking, workbenches, tooling, and palletized stock, moved dock to dock where both sites allow it.
Schools, churches, and nonprofits
Classrooms, offices, and halls moved in breaks and between services, usually on a fixed budget that has to hold.
Salons, studios, and clinics
Stations, chairs, mirrors, and equipment where a scratched fixture is a visible problem for every client afterwards.
Co-working and multi-tenant buildings
Shared docks, booked elevators, and strict permitted hours. The planning matters more than the lifting.
Tell us your square footage, your headcount, and your closing window.
What We Move Inside Your Space
Workstations and cubicles
Panel systems taken down, tracked by station, and rebuilt to the new plan rather than guessed at on site.
Desks, chairs, and storage
Pedestals and lateral files moved loaded where safe to do so, which cuts hours off the job.
Conference and reception furniture
Boardroom tables, glass, and reception counters blanketed and crated as the piece requires.
Monitors, computers, and printers
Screens padded and moved upright, machines boxed by user so each desk gets its own kit back.
Copiers and large equipment
Heavier machines moved on the right gear. Manufacturer servicing before or after is coordinated with your vendor.
Files and records
Boxed in numbered cartons, kept in order, and logged against an inventory so nothing has to be re-sorted later.
Retail fixtures and racking
Gondolas, shelving, and slatwall dismantled and rebuilt, hardware bagged and labeled to its unit.
Safes and heavy items
Surveyed in advance for weight, route, and floor loading. Sometimes its own visit, separate from the main move.
Anything genuinely specialist, a grand piano in a lobby or a single high-value piece that needs its own handling, runs through piano moving or white glove delivery rather than being squeezed into the office load.
Choosing Your Move Window
The window you pick decides your downtime and most of your cost. These are the five we run.
| Window | How it runs | Best for | Trading time lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday close to Monday open | Load Friday evening, place over the weekend | Offices and practices | None |
| Overnight | Load after close, place before opening | Retail and restaurants | None |
| Single weekday | One planned day, start to finish | Smaller offices that can close for a day | One day |
| Phased by department | Several visits over one or two weeks | Larger sites that cannot go dark | Little to none, per team |
| Staged with storage | Load out now, deliver when the space is ready | Fit-outs running behind | Depends on the build |
If your new space is still being finished, the staged option is usually the honest answer. We hold the load in storage and deliver in the order your departments need to come back online.
How a Commercial Move Is Run
- Site walkthrough
We walk both spaces, count workstations, look at the dock or the stairs, and note every heavy or awkward item.
- Written scope and estimate
You get the scope, the crew, the trucks, the window, and the price in writing, with anything excluded stated plainly.
- Destination plan and labeling
We agree a numbered layout for the new space and tag items to it, so placement is settled before the day rather than argued about on it.
- Building and landlord paperwork
Certificates of insurance, dock and elevator bookings, permitted hours, and common area protection arranged with both property managers.
- Prep and disconnection
Your IT team disconnects and backs up. We take down panels and furniture and box what your staff have not packed themselves.
- Load and transport
Loaded in the sequence the new floor needs, outside your trading hours, with protection down in both buildings.
- Place, rebuild, punch list
Items to their numbered destinations, furniture rebuilt, then a walkthrough with your manager and a written punch list of anything outstanding.
Keeping You Open, and What We Need From You
How we protect your trading time
- The window is chosen around your hours before anything else is booked
- Crews are sized to finish inside that window rather than to be cheap on paper
- Departments can be sequenced so the ones that generate revenue land first
- Elevators and docks are reserved in advance, so nobody waits in a lobby
- A punch list closes the job in writing instead of a crew driving off
What we need from you two weeks out
- A named decision maker who will be reachable on the day
- The approved floor plan for the new space, even a rough one
- Your landlords’ insurance and access requirements for both buildings
- Confirmation of who is packing personal desk contents, you or us
- Your IT team’s schedule for shutdown and bring-up
Technology and Records, Handled Honestly
This is where office moves go wrong, and where most movers are vague. Here is the line we draw.
What we do
- Move hardware, screens, and network equipment as physical items, padded and secured
- Box each user’s kit together and label it to their new desk number
- Move server and comms cabinets where the route and the weight allow it, surveyed first
- Keep records in numbered, sealed cartons with an inventory list
- Give you a written count of what left and what arrived
What stays with your IT provider
- Backing up before the move, which should never be our responsibility
- Disconnecting and reconnecting machines, phones, and network gear
- Decommissioning and powering cabinets down and back up
- Cabling, patching, and testing in the new space
- Anything under a manufacturer warranty or service contract
Any mover who tells you they will handle your servers end to end is either subcontracting it or guessing. We move the metal, your IT team owns the data and the connections, and the two schedules are agreed before the date is set.
What Drives the Cost of a Commercial Move
What increases it
- Workstation and headcount volume, which sets the crew and the trucks
- Panel systems that have to be dismantled and rebuilt rather than carried
- Stairs or a shared dock instead of dedicated loading at both ends
- Phased moves, since each visit is a separate mobilization
- Heavy equipment, safes, and racking needing extra gear and crew
- Us packing desks and files that staff could have packed themselves
What reduces it
- Purging files, dead stock, and broken furniture before we come out to scope it
- Staff clearing their own desks into supplied cartons
- A floor plan finalized early, so nothing is placed twice
- Dock and elevator access confirmed rather than hoped for
- One consolidated move instead of several phases, where you can take the closure
- Booking outside the last week of the month and outside the summer peak
We do not publish a per-desk rate, because the same headcount can be a one night job or a three visit project depending on the building. The walkthrough is free and it is the only way to price this honestly.
Using Your Own Staff vs Hiring Commercial Movers
Asking the team to move the office looks like a saving until you cost the day out.
| What matters | With Movers & Co | Using your own staff |
|---|---|---|
| If someone is injured lifting | Our workers compensation applies | Your claim, your premium, your headcount down |
| Damage to the building | Insured, and handled with the property manager | Out of your security deposit |
| Cost of the labor | A quoted crew for a set window | Salaried staff not doing their actual jobs |
| Equipment | Trucks, dollies, panel carts, straps, protection | Rented, borrowed, or improvised |
| Panel systems and heavy items | Dismantled and rebuilt correctly | Usually the part that gets broken |
| When you reopen | Inside the agreed window | Later than planned, almost always |
Middle ground exists. If your team will clear the desks and the small items, we can quote for the furniture, the IT, and the heavy work only. That is often the cheapest sensible version, and it is close to labor only with a truck attached.
Landlord and Building Requirements to Sort Early
These are the items that delay commercial moves in Lancaster, and every one of them is solvable two weeks out.
Confirm with both buildings
- Certificate of insurance, including any additional insured wording the lease demands
- Permitted moving hours, and whether weekends need prior written approval
- Loading dock booking, height restrictions, and how long a truck may stay
- Service elevator reservation, pads, and weight limits
- Protection required for lobbies, corridors, and finished floors
- Security, badges, sign-in, and whether an escort is required after hours
- Where waste, cartons, and packaging may be left, and who removes it
- Parking or street permits if there is no dock
What cannot go on the truck
- Compressed gas cylinders, propane, fuel, and solvents
- Chemicals, cleaning stock, and anything classed as hazardous
- Open food stock and anything perishable
- Cash, cards, keys, and confidential items that should travel with a manager
Send us your landlord’s requirements and we will handle both buildings.
Where We Move Businesses
- Address
- 1698 Temple Ave, Unit 1
Lancaster, PA 17603 - Phone
- (717) 690-1106
- contact@moversandcompany.com
- Hours
- Mon to Fri: 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Sat: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sun: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Relocating staff as well as the office? Household moves for your team run through residential moving, and out of state relocations through long distance moving.
Commercial Moving FAQ
Can you move us outside business hours or over a weekend?
Yes, and for most commercial jobs that is the default rather than the exception. Evening, overnight, and weekend crews are standard, and the window is agreed before anything else is scheduled.
How much downtime should we plan for?
With a weekend or overnight window, usually none in trading terms. Staff normally lose part of a day at each end, packing their own desks and then setting up again. A single weekday move costs you that day. Phased moves spread it so no team loses more than a few hours.
Do you provide a certificate of insurance for our landlord?
Yes, for both the outgoing and incoming buildings, with additional insured wording if the lease requires it. Send us the property manager’s contact and requirements when you book and we deal with them directly.
Do you disconnect and reconnect our computers and phones?
No, and you should be cautious of a mover who says they will. We move the hardware safely and label it to the right desk. Backups, disconnection, reconnection, cabling, and testing belong with your IT provider, and we coordinate our schedule with theirs.
Can you move us in phases, department by department?
Yes. Phasing is how larger sites avoid going dark, and it works best when the new floor plan is settled early so each team lands in its final position. It costs more than one consolidated move, because each visit is a separate mobilization.
Do you move server racks and network cabinets?
Often yes, once we have surveyed the route, the weight, and the floor loading. Some cabinets should be unpopulated first and rebuilt on site, which is a decision for your IT team to make before we scope the job.
Can our staff pack their own desks?
Yes, and it is usually the single biggest saving available. We supply cartons and labels, staff clear personal contents, and our crew handles furniture, IT, files, and the heavy work.
What if our new space is not finished on the planned date?
Fit-outs run late, so we plan for it. The load can be held in storage and delivered when the space is signed off, phased so the departments you need first come back first. Tell us early and it is a change of plan rather than a crisis.
More questions? See our full FAQ or contact us directly.
