01Paper before plastic
Dishes, glassware and anything with a lip get individually wrapped in clean packing paper — never newspaper, never straight into a box.
Usually Aman's call
The boring details that keep your stuff perfect.
Anyone can lift a box. The difference shows up in the ten minutes before the lift — how the piece gets wrapped, padded, labeled and loaded.
- 6 steps
- Every job, every crew, same order
- 0
- Damage claims on wrapped goods
- 100%
- Hardware bagged and taped to the piece
- Free
- All materials on standard moves
The AE standard
Six things we do on every job, whether you're watching or not
None of it is an upsell. It's just how the crew was trained — and it's why the reviews keep saying “nothing broke.”
- 01
02Blankets, then shrink
Quilted blankets go on first so the shrink wrap never touches wood finish or leather. Corners get double-padded on anything antique.
Usually Dimitri's call
03Written on two sides
Room and contents on the top and one side of every box, plus a fragile note when it needs one — so unloading is sorting, not guessing.
Usually Donnell's call
04Built in tiers
Heavy on the deck, soft goods filling the voids, fragile riding on top and strapped to the E-track every few feet so nothing shifts on the highway.
Usually Marquis's call
05Carried, not dragged
Runners over floors, pads on railings, doorjambs covered. Two movers on anything awkward — stairs are where damage happens, so we slow down there.
Usually Deon's call
06Rebuilt the same day
Beds, tables, sectionals and cribs go back together, boxes land in the right rooms, and the wrap leaves with us instead of living in your hallway.
Usually The whole crew's call
The care library
Tap any item to see exactly how we handle it
Every category of thing in your house has a method behind it. Here's ours, with the crew member who owns each one.
What's in the truck before we arrive
Newsprint & packing paper
Unprinted, so nothing arrives with yesterday's headlines on it.
Quilted moving blankets
Between every hard edge, under every strap.
Commercial shrink wrap
Over blankets — never against finished wood or leather.
Dish & glass cells
Cell dividers for stemware, plates packed on edge.
Wardrobe boxes
Clothes stay on hangers; nothing gets folded and re-ironed.
Mattress covers
New bag per mattress, on before it leaves the bedroom.
Four mistakes we never make
01
Plates packed flat
Plates stacked flat crack from the top down. On edge, they behave like a deck of cards.
02
Rugs folded
A folded rug keeps the crease for a year. Rolled, taped, carried on the shoulder.
03
Wrap on raw wood
Plastic against finish traps moisture and hazes the surface. Blanket first, always.
04
Hardware in a 'safe place'
Bolts get bagged and taped to the piece they came off. That's the whole system.
Move day, hour by hour
No mystery. Here's the whole day.
A typical three-bedroom local move with AE Services, from the walkthrough to the handshake.
- T‑minus 1 week
Walkthrough & locked quote
Aman does a video or in-person walkthrough, counts the actual inventory and locks the number in writing. Elevator reservations and COIs get filed here, not on move morning.
- 7:30 AM
Crew arrives, floors go down
Runners on hardwood and carpet, door jambs padded, parking staged. You get introduced to the crew by name before anything is touched.
- 8:00 AM
Wrap room by room
Blankets, shrink and mattress bags. Hardware bagged and taped to its own furniture. Boxes labeled by room and contents.
- 10:30 AM
The truck gets built
Walls, not piles. Heavy on the bottom, strapped tier every four feet, fragile layer on top against the E-track.
- 1:00 PM
Unload into the right rooms
Labels do the work. Boxes land where they belong and furniture goes against the wall you actually want it on.
- Before we leave
Rebuild, place, walk it with you
Beds and tables reassembled, debris taken out, final walkthrough together. You sign off before the truck pulls away.
Free, no-obligation
Get your flat price in about 30 minutes
Tell us the basics and Aman will text or email back a straight number — not a range, not a sales call. Moving this week? Call instead and we'll sort it on the spot.
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