Packing Services in Birmingham, AL for One Room or the Whole House

Packing is the part of a move most people put off, and it is the part that takes the longest. Tunj Control Moving offers packing services in Birmingham, AL for households and offices that want some or all of it handled by movers. We have packed and moved Birmingham homes for 5 years from our office at Perimeter Park, just off US 280. Our 25+ movers are trained, background-checked, and uniformed, and Tunj Control is licensed and insured. The people who pack your kitchen are the same people who carry it into the new house.

Full Packing or Partial Packing, Your Choice

Some customers hand us the keys and come back to a packed house. Others only want the breakables done. Both options use the same materials and the same movers.

Full Packing

With full packing, our movers box up every room, label each carton by room and contents, and stage the boxes near the door for loading day. Closets, the garage, the pantry, bathroom cabinets, and the catch-all drawer in the kitchen all get done.

Full packing usually pairs with a residential move or a long-distance move. One of the larger packing jobs we have taken on started in Hoover, AL, a 6-bedroom house headed to Queens, NY. Our movers packed every room, wrapped and took apart the furniture, drove the load to New York, then unpacked and rebuilt it on the other end. Four days, nothing broken.

Partial Packing

Partial packing means you pick the rooms or the categories. The most common request is the kitchen, followed by framed art, lamps, and anything made of glass. You pack the linens and the books, we handle the dish packs. It works well for apartment moves, where a one-bedroom in Homewood might only need the kitchen and the TV boxed by us. Offices booking a commercial move often use it the same way, with employees packing their own desks while our movers pack the shared spaces.

Materials Our Movers Bring

Grocery store boxes give out on the second flight of stairs. Our movers bring professional-grade materials to every packing job, and we can drop off supplies ahead of time if you would rather pack some rooms yourself. Here is what comes off the truck:

  • Dish packs with cell dividers for plates, glasses, and stemware
  • Wardrobe boxes with a hanging bar, so clothes travel on their hangers
  • TV cartons and flat picture boxes for screens, mirrors and framed art
  • Mattress bags for every bed in the house
  • Packing paper and bubble wrap for anything fragile
  • Tape and stretch wrap to seal cartons and hold drawers shut
  • Moving blankets for furniture, appliances and anything too big for a box

How We Pack Kitchens, Art, Electronics and Closets

Every room has its own method. These four take the most time and the most care.

Kitchens

Plates go into dish packs on their edges with paper between each one. Glasses and stemware are wrapped one at a time and set into cell dividers. Small appliances are wrapped and boxed with the cord taped to the body. Knives ride in a marked box with the blades wrapped, so nobody gets cut on unpacking day.

Framed Art and Wall Mirrors

Framed pieces get a layer of paper, then bubble wrap, then a picture box sized to the frame. Large canvases and mirrors get corner protectors and travel upright between padded furniture in the truck. Antiques, sculpture, and anything with real value belong on our white glove service, where each piece is inspected and wrapped on its own.

Electronics

TVs go into TV cartons with foam corners, screen facing in. Computers, monitors, and game consoles are wrapped in bubble wrap and boxed with the cables bagged and labeled to the device they belong to. Take a photo of the back of your home theater before we unplug it, and the cables will go back where they came from.

Closets

Hanging clothes move straight from the rod into wardrobe boxes, still on their hangers. Folded clothes can stay in dresser drawers when the dresser is sturdy enough, with stretch wrap holding the drawers shut. Shoes, belts, and bags get boxed by closet, so each box unpacks into the same closet it came from.

Unpacking and Setting Up the New Place

Unpacking is a separate line you can add to any packing job. At the new house, our movers carry each labeled box into the room on its label, then open it, unwrap the contents, and set them on counters, shelves, and closet rods. Beds get put back together first so you can sleep there that night. Anything that needs building, a crib, a sectional, a bookcase that came flat in a box, can be put together on the same visit. On office jobs, unpacking often runs alongside FF&E installation, with new workstations built while the cartons are emptied.

You can also have us unpack one room, usually the kitchen, and do the rest yourself.

Where Our Packing Jobs Happen

A short drive from Perimeter Park covers the hillside houses of Vestavia Hills, the older homes around the villages in Mountain Brook, and the bungalows in Homewood, where a narrow street means we park the truck once and carry boxes the last stretch.

South down US 280, we pack in Brook Highland and out to the newer subdivisions in Chelsea. Along I-65 we pack in Hoover and in the family homes and townhomes of Pelham near Oak Mountain.

Northeast on I-59, we cover Trussville. West on I-20/59, we pack houses and apartments in Bessemer. If your address is somewhere in between, send us the details, and we will let you know.

When to Book Packing

Packing happens in the days before the truck comes, so it needs its own place on the calendar. The number of packing days is set when we build your estimate, based on room count and how much of the house is fragile.

We recommend booking 1 to 2 weeks ahead. Weekend and end-of-month dates fill first, and a packing job needs more days blocked out than a load-and-go move. If your date is close, call (205) 946-0179 and ask what is open.