What an office really pays for in a move is avoided downtime: a Monday the team cannot afford to lose, a Pease Tradeport lease ending on a date nobody can push, a desk count that simply has to function by morning. None of this resembles a living-room job, and none of it fits a household schedule. The bulk of it runs overnight, on a weekend, or after the lights go down, letting a company hold normal hours while the desks stand wired and ready in the new space before the first badge swipes in. Work like this stays steady on the Seacoast: corporate offices out at Pease Tradeport, moves tied to the Naval Shipyard, downtown law and professional practices, and the ordinary turnover of a region whose leases roll over on a calendar.
Our business parks keep it flowing. Pease tenants relocate divisions around the campus and out to the surrounding towns; downtown Portsmouth firms, practices, and nonprofits trade floors and merge; and the newer commercial buildings stack their own access requirements on top. Smart Move empties a floor of cubicles into a brand-new Pease building, shifts an office out to a Dover or Newington campus, combines a pair of suites into one downtown, and relocates a practice’s archive and case files without misplacing a carton. Since our own W-2 crews own the job beginning to end, no business is turning its files and hardware over to a temp crew that vanishes the moment it wraps.
Office and corporate moves on the building’s clock
The same list rides along with each commercial job: an insurance certificate covering both buildings, a dock window, a freight-elevator reservation, clearance and badging at the shipyard or any other restricted site, and a facilities approval. We lock down every item in advance, so nobody on the crew rolls up to a sealed dock at midnight on a Saturday. Cubicles get taken apart, labeled by person or by floor, and reassembled at the new address; case files and IT gear are crated and traced; and we hold a curb spot anywhere a downtown Portsmouth street is the lone option for loading. The entire move is plotted around your calendar so not one working hour is lost, with a coordinator steering it from the first walkthrough through the last desk in place.
What a commercial or office job covers
- Overnight, weekend, and after-dark windows that keep a company or agency operating
- The whole building list managed for you: insurance certificate, dock window, freight elevator, facilities approval
- Shipyard and restricted-site moves, complete with clearance, badging, and dock scheduling
- Cubicles taken apart, labeled, and reassembled, with case files and IT gear crated and traced
Need a spot for furniture or files in the gap between leases? Our short-term storage holds them logged and climate-controlled. Need a workstation or a server live by tonight? Turn to last-minute and same-day moving. Get a written quote and we will respond within one business hour.
What’s Included
- Overnight, weekend, and after-dark windows that keep a company or agency operating
- The whole building list managed for you: insurance certificate, dock window, freight elevator, facilities approval
- Shipyard and restricted-site moves, complete with clearance, badging, and dock scheduling
- Cubicles taken apart, labeled by person or floor, and reassembled at the new address
- Case files and IT gear crated, traced, and kept ordered on a numbered list
- A curb spot held anywhere a downtown Portsmouth street is the lone option for loading
- A crew that grows from one suite all the way to a full multi-floor office
- A coordinator steering it from the first walkthrough through the last desk in place
What Does It Cost?
Flat-rate or hourly — a 2-mover crew from $135/hr, flat bands from $420
2-mover crew, truck, blankets & dollies included — with hourly at $135 / $175 / $225 or a locked flat rate by home size.
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