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Optometry Office Moving in Colorado Springs

Your optical staff empty and count the frame boards, your equipment vendor resets the lanes, and our crew moves the dispensary, pretest, and front office.

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Planning a Optometry Office Move

An optometry practice is two businesses under one lease: a clinic in the back and an optical shop in the front. The clinic side is instrument-heavy. Exam chairs and instrument stands are often anchored and wired, and each lane carries a phoropter, slit lamp, and acuity system, with pretest devices such as an autorefractor, tonometer, and retinal camera nearby. Your equipment vendor takes those out of service, moves them, and aligns them again in the new lanes.

The front of the store is ours. Frame boards come off the walls empty once your optical staff have pulled and counted the frames. Freestanding display towers, dispensing tables, adjustment benches, lens sample drawers, and the check-out counter follow. We plan loads so the dispensary goes in first, because frames take time to reset and an empty wall is the first thing a patient sees. Your team counts frames back into their boards on its own schedule, and the lanes open when the vendor has finished its checks.

Who usually signs off
Owner optometrist or practice manager, with the optical manager approving the dispensary layout and the equipment vendor setting lane dates
Timing that works
Avoid late summer, when children's exams run ahead of the school year, and December, when patients use benefits and flexible spending before they reset; a January through spring weekend is often the easiest window.

What typically moves

  • Wall-mounted frame boards and rods Taken down empty after staff pull the frames, with brackets bagged per board. Removing and patching wall anchors follows your lease terms.
  • Freestanding frame towers and sunglass spinners Moved empty with shelves and locks secured; lockable displays travel locked and your optical manager keeps the keys.
  • Dispensing and fitting tables with mirrors Mirrors come off and ride in cartons on edge; tables are padded and placed to the dispensary drawing.
  • Frame trays and backstock drawers Staff count and close each tray; we move them in the order they came out so collections go back to their brand walls.
  • Pretest room furniture and instrument tables Power tables and stools move once the vendor has lifted the autorefractor or tonometer off them.
  • Contact lens trial-set cabinets Trial lenses stay boxed in their original order inside the cabinet or in cartons your staff seal.

Access and scheduling

Most practices in Colorado Springs sit in one of two building types. A storefront in a shopping center has a front door on the parking lot and often a rear service door, so frame boards and towers leave through the back while neighboring shops stay open. Medical office buildings share an elevator and dock and need a booking with the property manager.

Plan around three dates: the last day of exams at the old office, the vendor's reinstall visit at the new one, and the day you want the optical shop open for pickups. Glasses ordered before the move are still arriving from the lab, so your staff decide where finished jobs are held and which address customers are told to visit. We box the front office and dispensary first and the lanes last, after your final patient.

Protection and handling

Frames never ride on their boards. Even a short truck ride shakes them loose, bends temples, and scratches demo lenses, so your staff empty the boards and pack the frames in trays or cartons, counting as they go. Emptied boards are wrapped flat-face to flat-face with padding between them, and their rods and brackets go in a marked bag fixed to its back.

Mirrors, glass shelves, and lighted display cases are cartoned or crated individually. Adjustment bench tools, frame warmers, and hand tools are packed by the optician who uses them, since that bench has its own order. On delivery day, we set the dispensary tables and towers to your layout and leave the wall boards staged under their positions for the installer or your staff to hang. Patient records and completed eyewear orders stay with your staff.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Exam chairs, instrument stands, phoropters, slit lamps, and acuity systems
The ophthalmic equipment vendor disconnects, moves, reinstalls, and aligns them. Anchored chairs and stands are unbolted by the vendor, not our crew.
OCT, visual field, retinal camera, and other diagnostic devices
The device's manufacturer or service company packs and calibrates it. Its service terms often expect them to.
In-office lens edger and optical lab equipment
The edger's service technician prepares and reinstalls it, including any water supply or drain it uses.

Not part of our work

  • Pulling, counting, or reconciling frame inventory.
  • Hanging wall-mounted frame boards on new walls, unless your installer releases that to us in writing.

Around Colorado Springs and El Paso County

Eye care practices around Colorado Springs are spread through shopping centers in Briargate and InterQuest, along the Powers corridor, and near Northgate, with others in medical office buildings on North Nevada Avenue. Hail season from late spring into summer brings fast afternoon storms, so outdoor staging gets a covered fallback. A practice adding a Castle Rock or Monument location can use the same dispensary layout drawing at both.

The crew that shows up

Two iHaul iMove movers carrying a stretch-wrapped piece of furniturePadded door frame and a floor runner laid out before a moveTwo iHaul iMove box trucks backed in with their rear doors open

Optometry Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (719) 357-5865.

Can we ship frames on the boards if we tape them down?

We advise against it. Tape leaves residue on frames and demo lenses, and hinges still flex when the truck brakes. Pulling and counting frames into trays takes your staff time, but it gives you a clean inventory count at both addresses and the boards come off the wall faster once they are empty.

Who takes the exam chair off its floor anchors?

Your ophthalmic equipment vendor. The chair and stand are usually bolted and wired together, and the vendor who sold or services them unbolts, moves, and aligns them. Our crew keeps the lane clear, moves the stools and cabinets around them, and places the rest of the room once the vendor has set the chair and stand.

What happens to glasses that arrive from the lab during the move?

Your practice decides. Many offices hold finished jobs at the old address until the last day and then move them in one sealed container with the dispensing staff, not with our crew. Tell your optical lab the date to start shipping to the new address, and update the pickup message your patients hear on the phone.

Should we move the optical shop or the exam lanes first?

That depends on which one earns first after the move. Many practices open the dispensary first so patients can pick up glasses and staff can adjust frames while the vendor finishes lane setup. Others reopen exams first. Tell us your order and we load the truck to match it.

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