How Does Quality Moving Services Handle an Office Move in Richmond?
Published November 2026 | Last Updated November 2026 | By Vincent Tucker, President, Quality Moving Services
TL;DR
Quality Moving Services runs office moves across Richmond and Central Virginia in three parts: a planning consultation before anything is packed, disassembly and reassembly of office furniture systems from brands like Steelcase, Herman Miller, and Knoll, and secure storage for anything that can't go straight into the new space. The aim on every job is the same: keep your business open and keep downtime short.
How Does Quality Moving Services Handle an Office Move in Richmond?
Quality Moving Services starts every office move with a planning consultation, then disassembles, moves, and reassembles workstations and office furniture, placing each item where you want it in the new space. QMS has moved offices, schools, law firms, hospitals, and government agencies across Central Virginia, and can store furniture when the new space isn't ready on moving day.
Quick Answer
Plan it together, take the furniture apart properly, and have storage ready if the new space runs late. That's the QMS approach, whether it's a small suite or a full corporate relocation.
Key Takeaways
- Every QMS office move begins with a pre-move planning consultation.
- Crews disassemble and reassemble systems furniture from Allsteel, HON, Kimball, Herman Miller, Haworth, Knoll, and Steelcase.
- Furniture that can't go straight in can wait at Quality Self Storage in Petersburg.
- QMS works with private businesses and with local, state, and federal government offices.
- If your business slows down at the end of the year, that quiet stretch can be the easiest time to move or rearrange an office.
Here's the part of an office move that nobody budgets time for: the morning after. The desks are in, the boxes are stacked, and someone discovers that the conference table is in the right room, but the wrong way around, and the printer is on the opposite wall from the outlet it needs. Most of the stress in an office move doesn't come from the truck. It comes from the hours of rearranging afterward, when people should be back at work.
That's why our
office moving work starts weeks before the truck does. In the colder months, a lot of our commercial work is smaller office reorganizations rather than full relocations, and the same planning applies to both.
What Happens Before an Office Moving Day?
Before moving day, Quality Moving Services meets with you for a planning consultation. The goal is to agree on what's moving, what's being taken apart, what's going into storage, and where everything goes in the new space. Clear communication starts here, so the crew arrives with a plan your team already knows instead of figuring it out on site.
The more detail you bring to that conversation, the shorter moving day gets. Have these ready when you call:
- Both addresses, including suite numbers and floors.
- A floor plan or sketch of the new space, with where each workstation, desk, and shared item should land.
- A rough furniture inventory, including the brand of any systems furniture or cubicles.
- Building rules at both locations. Ask property management about elevator reservations, loading dock hours, and whether they require a certificate of insurance from the mover.
- Your target date and any dates you can't move, such as a busy reporting week or a client event.
- Anything that won't go straight into the new space, so storage can be arranged in advance.
Can QMS Take Apart and Rebuild Office Furniture?
Yes. Quality Moving Services disassembles and reassembles office furniture and workstation systems as part of its office move management. QMS crews work with a wide range of commercial furniture brands, including Allsteel, HON, Kimball, Herman Miller, Haworth, Knoll, and Steelcase, and set each piece up in its assigned spot in the new space.
Systems furniture is where office moves usually go wrong. Panels, work surfaces, and brackets break down into dozens of pieces, and those pieces aren't always interchangeable between brands or even within product lines.
A crew that knows the hardware can take a workstation apart once and put it back together once. A crew that doesn't tends to leave you with a wobbly desk and a bag of leftover screws.
What If the New Office Isn't Ready on Moving Day?
If your new space isn't finished, Quality Moving Services can store office furniture until it is. QMS operates Quality Self Storage, an indoor, climate-controlled facility at 33 N. Crater Road in Petersburg, Virginia, and offers custom commercial pricing based on square footage. Furniture moves out of the old space on schedule and waits in storage until the build-out is done.
Construction delays are common enough that it's worth asking about storage during planning, even if you don't think you'll need it. The same applies to a downsize. If you're moving from twelve offices to eight, the extra furniture has to go somewhere, and not every business is ready to sell or donate it the same week.
What Kinds of Organizations Has QMS Moved?
Since 1989, Quality Moving Services has moved professional corporations and law firms, schools and colleges, hospitals, resource centers, and local, state, and federal government offices across Virginia. For organizations with procurement requirements, QMS publishes a capability statement and offers corporate move management for larger relocations.
Each of those clients brings its own constraints. A medical office has equipment that can't be tipped. A law firm has files that need to stay in order and out of sight. A school can only move when students aren't in the building. We'd rather hear about those limits in the planning meeting than on the loading dock. For more on how this kind of work differs from a household move, see the key differences between commercial and residential moving.
QMS has been BBB accredited since June 2006, is certified through Virginia's SWaM program, and is a member of the Virginia Movers and Warehousemen's Association.
How Long Will Our Office Move Take?
We can't give a single answer that fits every office, and we'd be wary of any mover who does before seeing the space. A five-person suite on the ground floor and a forty-desk floor with systems furniture are different jobs. We set the timeline during the planning consultation, once QMS knows the inventory, the buildings, and how much needs to be taken apart.
What we can say is where the time usually goes: furniture disassembly and reassembly, elevator and dock access, and anything that has to be decided on the day because it wasn't decided earlier. The last one is the only one you fully control.
“Office moves are often scheduled after hours and on the weekends to accommodate commercial building guidelines,” said Owner Vincent Tucker, QMS President.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who does office moves in Richmond, VA?
Quality Moving Services handles office moves across Richmond and Central Virginia. QMS starts each job with a planning consultation, then disassembles, moves, and reassembles office furniture and workstations, placing each item where you want it. It also stores office furniture when a new space isn't ready.
Can movers take apart and put back together cubicles?
Yes. QMS disassembles and reassembles systems furniture and cubicles as part of its office moving service. Crews work with brands including Allsteel, HON, Kimball, Herman Miller, Haworth, Knoll, and Steelcase, and set up each workstation in its assigned spot at the new location.
Q: Does Quality Moving Services move government offices?
Yes. QMS has moved local, state, and federal government offices in Virginia, along with schools, colleges, hospitals, and law firms. The company publishes a capability statement for organizations with procurement requirements and offers corporate move management for larger relocations.
Where can I store office furniture during a renovation?
Quality Moving Services can store it at Quality Self Storage, its indoor, climate-controlled facility at 33 N. Crater Road in Petersburg, Virginia. Commercial customers can get custom pricing based on square footage, and furniture can wait there until the new space is ready.
What areas does QMS serve for office moves?
QMS handles office moves throughout Central Virginia, the Greater Richmond area, including Richmond, Petersburg, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Henrico, Hopewell, Midlothian, Charles City County, New Kent County, King William County, Hanover County, and the entire state of Virginia.
Moving Central Virginia Since 1989
Vincent Tucker, President, Quality Moving Services
Vincent Tucker founded Quality Moving Services in 1989. The company has moved residential and commercial customers across Virginia, as well as local, state, and federal government offices; schools; law firms and professional corporations; colleges; resource centers; and hospitals. QMS has been BBB accredited since June 2006, is certified through the Commonwealth of Virginia's Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business (SWaM) program, and is a member of the Virginia Movers and Warehousemen's Association. Meet the QMS team.
Ready to Plan Your Office Move?
An office move goes faster when the hard decisions get made in a planning meeting instead of in the hallway on moving day. QMS brings the planning, the furniture know-how, and the storage, so your team can get back to work.
Call Quality Moving Services at 804-373-8677 or
request your office move consultation online.
