Commercial & Office Movers in Portsmouth | Smart Move

Office and commercial moves after dark for the Seacoast's Pease, shipyard, and downtown businesses, plotted around the workweek with no downtime

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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What Portsmouth Movers Say

Sarah B.
Sarah B.
downtown Portsmouth · Yelp
★★★★

“Booked these guys for our condo near Market Square and it went fine overall. Kayla had the elevator reservation and the COI squared away with the building manager before the date, which I appreciated, and the crew was careful with the corners in that narrow hallway. Knocked off a star only because they ran about thirty minutes behind the morning window and I had to text twice for an arrival time. Once they got there, though, the whole thing moved fast and the quote held to the dollar.”

Matt D.
Matt D.
the South End · Google
★★★★★

“We have one of the old houses in the South End, no driveway, one-way street, the works, and I figured moving day would be a nightmare. Tyler walked the route first, figured out where the truck could legally sit, and his crew threaded our furniture out the front without a single ding on those old door casings. Honestly the best money we spent on the whole sale.”

Emily R.
Emily R.
Atlantic Heights · Google
★★★★★

“Couldn't be happier. Two-bedroom over near Atlantic Heights, the boys had us loaded and unloaded in half a day and the flat rate was exactly what Cole wrote down. No sales tax in NH and no surprise fees from Smart Move, so that was a good day all around.”

Service FAQ

Can you run the move outside working hours?

That covers the bulk of our commercial jobs. We slot it overnight, on a weekend, or after the lights go down, so a company holds normal hours and the staff arrives Monday to a space already wired and arranged. The desks function before the first badge swipes in, and no working day is surrendered to the move.

Do you take on shipyard and restricted-site moves?

Yes, routinely, throughout Portsmouth and the Seacoast. We handle the clearance, badging, and dock scheduling the Naval Shipyard and other restricted sites call for, lock down the insurance certificate and facilities approval beforehand, and trace files and gear on a numbered list the whole way. Our own W-2 crews own it beginning to end.

Can you arrange the insurance, dock, and freight elevator at both ends?

We can. A commercial building or campus generally requires an insurance certificate, a dock window, a freight-elevator reservation, and a facilities approval. We lock down each one in advance, so come move night nobody from our team is turned back at a sealed dock.

Will you disassemble and reassemble the cubicles?

Yes. Cubicles and desks come apart, get labeled by person or floor, travel, and are reassembled at the new address, so everyone comes back to their own station. Case files, IT, and gear are crated and traced right beside them, and the layout follows a plan fixed at the walkthrough.

Can you move a full multi-floor office in one go?

Yes, throughout the Seacoast's offices. When a company or agency relocates or merges floors, we clear them on a plotted, scheduled plan, park furniture and files in our climate-controlled storage if the fit-out drags, and carry each floor's contents over as the rooms open up. A coordinator stays at the helm throughout.

Tell Us the Basics, Get a Written Price

We send back a single written figure for the job, most often the same hour. Asking is free, and it ties you to nothing.

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