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Internal Office Moves in Colorado Springs

Same building, new floor or suite. The freight elevator reservation, the cart order, and the landing plan on the new floor carry the whole move.

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How We Plan Internal Office Moves

When the new space is in the same building, there is often no truck at all. The move is a loop: load a cart in the old suite, roll it down the corridor, ride the freight elevator, unload in the new suite, and bring the empty cart back. How fast that loop runs depends on the elevator and how long your building will let you hold it. The rest of the plan follows from that reservation.

We start by walking the route with your office manager and the property manager or building engineer. We measure the elevator cab and door, the tightest corner on each floor, and your bulkiest pieces: the conference table, the reception counter, the lateral files. Anything that will not fit gets taken apart, or the building decides on another route. Then we write a cart order, room by room, so the new suite fills from the back wall toward the door.

Who usually signs off
Office manager or facilities lead who approves the destination layout and coordinates with building management
Timing that works
Whatever freight elevator window the building gives you, usually after tenant hours or on a weekend, with staff working in the old suite until their area is called.

What typically moves

  • Private-office desks, credenzas, and bookcases Drawers are emptied or taped, bookcase shelves come out, and each piece is tagged with its new room number before it leaves the old one.
  • Conference tables The top usually comes off the base to fit the cab. Hardware is bagged and taped under the top so it reaches the new room with the table.
  • Reception counter sections Freestanding sections move once the new lobby is clear; built-in millwork stays.
  • Lateral file cabinets Emptied into numbered cartons in drawer order, because a full lateral is too heavy to tip onto a cart safely.
  • Cartons of desk contents Staff pack their own drawers into cartons tagged with their new seat, and the cartons stack on carts sized for the elevator.
  • Desk computers and monitors Unplugged, bagged by seat, and reconnected on the new floor. Your IT contact handles network service and logins.

Access and scheduling

Book the freight elevator first and build around it. Ask building management how long a reservation can run, whether the car can be keyed to independent service so it skips other floors, and which hours allow moves. Many multi-tenant buildings limit moves to after business hours or weekends, so the crew can start after close or on a Saturday on request. Owners and managers named on a Certificate of Insurance get one from us before the date is held.

Staff keep working in the old suite until their area is called. We move in zones: back offices and storage first, open workstations next, and reception last so visitors can still find you. If the office stays open, the crew uses the service corridor and the freight car, not the passenger elevators, unless the building says otherwise.

Protection and handling

On a short move, most damage happens at doorways, not on the road. Corner guards go on the tightest turns, floor protection runs from the old suite to the elevator and from the elevator to the new suite, and the cab gets pads if the building has not hung its own. Desk tops and table edges are wrapped, because they are what hits a door frame when a cart swings.

Each cart carries one room's contents and is unloaded where its tag says, not in a pile by the door, since a heap at the entry blocks the next cart. Before the crew leaves, we walk both suites with your office manager to confirm placement in the new one and an empty old one with corridors back the way building management left them.

Who does what

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

Freight elevator access and building rules
Building management approves the reservation, the independent-service key, and pad requirements. Our crew works inside those rules.
Electrified workstations and floor boxes
A licensed electrician unhooks hard-wired furniture power and hooks it up again on the new floor. Our crew moves the furniture once the power is off.
Network, phones, and logins
Your IT contact or provider moves service to the new suite and tests each seat after the crew plugs equipment in.

Not part of our work

  • Reserving the freight elevator or negotiating building rules, which the tenant or its property manager arranges.
  • Electrical, data cabling, or phone-system work in either suite.
  • Patching walls, painting, or cleaning the vacated suite.

Around Colorado Springs and El Paso County

Internal moves happen in the multi-tenant buildings of downtown Colorado Springs around Tejon Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, and in the larger office buildings along the Powers corridor, in Briargate, and off Garden of the Gods Road, where a company adds a floor or trades suites at lease renewal. Each building sets its own elevator and move-hour rules, so the property manager's move-in packet is the first document we ask for.

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

Internal Office Moves FAQs

Another question? Call (719) 357-5865.

Can the freight elevator stay on our floors for the whole move?

Many buildings can put the freight car on independent service with a key, so it stops only where the crew calls it. Ask building management whether that is allowed and who holds the key. Without it, every stop at another floor adds time to each cart loop, and the reservation may need to run longer.

Is a truck ever needed when we are only changing floors?

Usually not. If the elevator, corridors, and doors fit your bulkiest pieces, carts do the whole job. A truck comes in when something will not fit the cab even after disassembly, when surplus furniture is leaving the building, or when the building routes large items out through a dock and back in another entrance.

What should our staff pack before a floor-to-floor move?

Their own desk drawers, shelves, and personal items, in cartons labeled with their new seat. We can drop off cartons and labels ahead of time and pack shared areas like the supply room, break room, and files. Staff should keep anything sensitive under their own control and can carry it themselves if they prefer.

Our boardroom table will not fit the freight elevator. What then?

We measure first. Most tables separate into a top and a base, and the top can ride on edge on a panel cart. If it still will not fit, building management decides whether it goes through a stairwell, out a dock and in another entrance, or stays behind.

Plan your business move

Tell us both addresses, the building rules you know about, and the dates you cannot move. We will send back a written plan and estimate.

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