Office Removals in Old Trafford
Covering Old Trafford, Stretford, Trafford Park, Firswood, Hulme and Whalley Range.
The move takes a day. Settling in takes about a fortnight.
Nothing is where your hands expect it
The first week in a new office is strange in a way nobody warns people about, and it has very little to do with whether the move went well.
Everything is findable and nothing is automatic. People spend the week looking for things they have not had to look for in years, and the cumulative effect is a team that is slightly slower than usual and slightly more tired.
That is normal. It passes. It is worth telling people it is coming, because otherwise the first week gets read as evidence that the move was a mistake.
Do not book anything important for the first three days
The most useful single piece of advice about a new office.
Whatever you can move out of that week, move. Big deadlines, client visits, anything that needs everyone concentrating. The first days will be interrupted by small practical problems that are individually trivial and collectively distracting.
If something genuinely cannot move, then work backwards: make sure whatever it needs is set up first and tested before the rest of the office is unpacked.
The list of small things
Every new office generates one, and it is better written down than remembered.
The light that does not work. The door that sticks. The socket that is in the wrong place. The heating that comes on at the wrong time. The thing nobody can find.
Keep a shared list for the first fortnight and let anybody add to it. Then deal with it in one go rather than as fifteen separate interruptions.
It also gives you something concrete to raise with whoever looks after the building, while it is still early enough to be an easy conversation.
Leave the boxes alone for a bit
Most offices unpack everything in the first two days and then spend a month rearranging.
There is a better order. Set up what people need to work, then stop. Live in the space for a week. Then unpack the rest, by which point you will actually know where things belong.
Anything still boxed after a month is usually a sign you did not need it, which is worth knowing before the next move rather than after it.
Where we cover
- Old Trafford
- Stretford
- Trafford Park
- Firswood
- Gorse Hill
- Hulme
- Whalley Range
Across M16 and the surrounding area. We are based at Swan Street in Manchester city centre, so Old Trafford is a short run rather than a journey. Office relocation services further out are arranged too.
If anything about the job is unusual, tell us and we will say what can be arranged around it. The quickest route is the form.
Get a price for your Old Trafford office move
Tell us the size of the office, what has to be working first, and the access at both ends.
Questions people ask
How long before things feel normal?
Usually about a fortnight, and the first three days are the strangest. It is worth telling people that in advance.
Should we unpack everything straight away?
Set up what people need to work, then leave the rest for a week. You will put things in better places once you have used the room.
Something in the new office is not right.
Write it down rather than chasing it individually. A single list raised once is a much easier conversation than five separate ones.
Get a price
Tell us the size of the office, what has to be working first, and the access at both ends.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk