Office Removals in Bolton
Covering Bolton, Farnworth, Horwich, Westhoughton, Little Lever, Kearsley, Blackrod and Turton.
The desks are the easy half. It is the things that plug in that decide whether Monday works.
Start with the connection, not the furniture
If one thing on this page is worth acting on today, it is this.
Broadband and phone lines at a new address are rarely instant. Depending on what is already installed there, and what you need, arranging them can take considerably longer than arranging the move itself. It is the single most common reason a business ends up in a new office where nothing works.
So it is worth finding out early what is already at the new address, and getting whoever supplies your connection involved as soon as the address is confirmed. Long before the van is booked.
Nobody enjoys discovering this in week three. It costs nothing to check in week one.
Photograph the back of everything
The cheapest useful thing anybody does before an office move.
Before a single cable comes out, take pictures of the back of the desks, the comms cabinet, the printer, and anything with more than two things plugged into it. Close enough to read the ports.
It takes ten minutes. It saves the afternoon at the other end where three people are looking at a bundle of identical black cables trying to remember what went where. Memory is worse than everybody expects, especially two days later in a different room.
Label as you go if you have time. Photograph it even if you do not.
The cabinet is its own conversation
Most offices have one thing that everything else depends on. A comms cabinet, a server, a rack in a cupboard, sometimes just a shelf with the important boxes on it.
Whatever yours looks like, mention it specifically when you get in touch rather than describing it as equipment. It usually needs its own plan, its own timing, and often its own person, and that is much easier to arrange in advance than on the morning.
If somebody looks after your IT, whether that is a provider, a contractor or someone in the building, the useful step is putting them and us on the same timeline early. Most of what goes wrong on an office move is not a lifting problem. It is two parties each assuming the other had the sequence covered.
Back it up before it moves
Equipment can be replaced. What is on it often cannot.
Whatever your normal backup arrangement is, it is worth making sure it has actually run, and that you can actually get at it, before anything is unplugged. Not because moving is especially risky, but because it is the one week where a hard drive failing is genuinely inconvenient.
If you are not sure whether that is covered, that is exactly the question to put to whoever handles your IT while there is still time to answer it.
What should not go in the van at all
Some things are better in a bag on the back seat than in a load.
- Laptops, phones and tablets.
- The keys and fobs, including the ones going back to the old place.
- Anything holding client data that you would rather keep sight of.
- The small expensive bits that are easy to lose and awkward to replace, which in most offices means chargers, docks, adapters and the one specific cable that only fits one thing.
Set those aside before the day and tell us they exist, so nobody helpfully packs them.
Monitors are worth a separate thought. They travel fine, but the stands, the screws and the mounting plates are what go missing, so keep them together with the screen they belong to rather than in a general box.
Who is doing what
Worth settling before the day rather than discovering on it.
Needs someone qualified, and that is arranged separately rather than assumed.
Usually your IT provider’s work at the other end.
Getting them from one address to the other is ours.
The bit in the middle, which is what gets connected first and by whom, is the part worth agreeing out loud. It is a five minute conversation that prevents most of the difficult ones.
If your move is not a standard shape
We have standard services and for most office removals one of them is the simplest way to book.
Plenty are not standard. Equipment going into storage while a fit-out finishes. A move where the IT goes on a different day from the furniture. Two offices merging into one address. An evening move because the systems cannot be down in working hours. A single floor moving while the rest stays put.
Say so and we will tell you what can be arranged around it.
If your building is managed, mention it. Lifts and loading are usually arranged by the building rather than by you.
The quickest route is the form. Give us the outline and we will come back to you.
Get a price for your Bolton office move
Tell us the size of the office, roughly what equipment is involved, and the access at both ends.
Where we cover
Bolton town centre, Farnworth, Horwich, Westhoughton, Little Lever, Kearsley, Blackrod, Turton and the surrounding BL postcodes.
- Bolton town centre
- Farnworth
- Horwich
- Westhoughton
- Little Lever
- Kearsley
- Blackrod
- Turton
We are based at Swan Street in Manchester city centre, so Bolton is a straightforward run rather than a journey. Office relocation services further afield are arranged too.
Questions people ask
Do you move computers and servers?
Tell us what you have, including anything in a cabinet or a rack, and we will talk it through. Anything that needs configuring at the other end is usually your IT provider’s part.
Should we disconnect everything ourselves?
Tell us what state things will be in and it gets factored in. Anything hard-wired needs someone qualified, arranged separately.
Can the IT move on a different day from the furniture?
It is a common request. Mention it at quote stage so the whole thing is priced as one job.
What if the new office is not connected yet?
It happens more than people expect, which is why it is worth checking early. If the dates end up not lining up, tell us and we will talk through the options.
Can you move us in the evening?
Raise it at the first conversation, because it affects availability more than anything else.
How much notice do you need?
Sooner is better for an office move, since the date is usually fixed by a lease. Ask even if it is short notice.
Get a price
Tell us the size of the office, roughly what equipment is involved, and the access at both ends.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk