Packing meant to survive I-64, not just the driveway
A rushed self-pack job is how a dresser gets chipped or a serving dish cracks before it even reaches the truck. Movers Chesapeake packs the same way on every job, and that consistency is what shows up intact at the other end.
One number, set before a box gets taped
Boone Ferris walks the home once, figures out what each room actually needs, and gives you labor and materials as a single figure. That number holds once packing starts.
What the packing crew brings
| Box type | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Standard cartons | Books, kitchen odds and ends, whatever’s overflowing from closets and drawers |
| Dish-pack boxes | Plates, bowls, stemware, anything with an edge that chips easily |
| Wardrobe boxes | Hanging clothes stay on a bar for the whole drive |
| Custom crates | Mirrors, artwork, flat screens, anything built around glass or a frame |
| Moisture-rated wrap | Wood furniture and instruments, protected against Tidewater humidity |
| Room-coded labels | Every box tagged for its destination room before it leaves the house |
A Hickory garage gets the same care as a bookshelf
A Hickory garage packed with years of untouched gear gets the same standard as one shelf of paperbacks in a Great Bridge apartment. A big job just means more hands and more wrap, not a different standard.
Greenbrier townhomes add their own wrinkle: boxes need to be staged and ready the moment the HOA opens its loading window, since the property manager sets that schedule, not us. When a job ties to a PCS timeline out of Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, packing sometimes compresses into an overnight push between report dates. Wrapping is matched to how fragile a piece actually is, and loading stays tight enough that nothing shifts on the road.
Working packing day around your schedule
- Clear the garage or shed out ahead of time, not the morning the truck arrives
- Or narrow our scope to the kitchen and breakables, and box the rest yourself
- Most full houses wrap up packing the day before, leaving moving day just for the drive
- A smaller home can pack and load the same day if a PCS timeline calls for it
- One crew handles both packing and hauling, so there’s a single contact if anything’s damaged
What that price is really protecting
A properly taped box makes it up I-64 or out I-85 without incident. We’ve unloaded plenty of self-packed kitchens where a dish towel was standing in for the bubble wrap it needed.
Standard coverage runs $0.60 per pound on anything our crew packs, with a higher declared value available on request.
