Full pack or partial pack
A full pack means the crew does the whole house. You go about your week, they arrive a day or two before the move, and the house goes into boxes room by room. It is the option people choose when they are working, when the move came up fast, or when the house is simply bigger than the time available.
A partial pack is more common than people expect. Most households can manage closets, books and the garage on their own but stall out on the kitchen, the china cabinet, the artwork and the electronics. Handing over exactly those rooms costs less than a full pack and removes the parts of packing that actually cause damage.
Fragile things and custom crates
Mirrors, glass tabletops, framed art, televisions, marble and stone tops, and lighting all need more than a blanket. Those get boxed or crated to size, built around the piece rather than squeezed into whatever carton is nearest.
Kitchens deserve their own mention because they take the longest and break the most. Plates go on edge rather than stacked flat, stemware gets celled and boxed upright, and the small heavy things get their own small heavy box instead of being scattered through five big ones.
Labeling that survives the truck
Every box gets marked with the room it is going to at the new address, not the room it came from, plus what is actually in it. That is the whole trick to a calm unload: the crew reads the label and walks it straight to the right room, and nothing gets restacked twice.
Mark a handful of boxes as the ones you want opened first, with coffee, bedding, towels, tools and the phone chargers. Those ride last and come off first.
Unpacking, and the boxes afterward
Unpacking is a separate booking from packing and you can take just that half. The crew opens and empties boxes, gets contents onto counters, into cabinets and onto shelves, and then takes the flattened cartons and packing debris away, which is the part people underestimate. A whole-house pack produces a startling volume of empty cardboard.
