White Glove Movers in Birmingham, AL for Pieces You Cannot Replace

Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, and Liberty Park homes hold furniture that took years to collect and cannot be reordered from a catalog. Tunj Control Moving provides white-glove moving across Birmingham, AL for the owners of those pieces: antiques, art, mirrors, and upholstered furniture that need to be wrapped and carried one at a time. Our office is at Perimeter Park off US 280, next to Cahaba Heights and a short drive from Mountain Brook. We hold a 4.8-star average from Google reviews, we are licensed and insured, and our movers have completed 10,000+ moves and furniture installations for homes and businesses.

What White Glove Means at Tunj Control

White glove is a level of handling, and our white glove movers in Birmingham, AL apply it to the house as much as to the furniture. Before the first piece is lifted, floor runners go down on hardwood and tile, film goes over carpeted stairs, and padded covers go on door frames, banisters, and the wall corners on every tight turn.

Each piece is looked over and noted before it is touched. Loose veneer, a wobbly leg, a hairline crack in a mirror: we want to know about it beforehand, and so do you. Then the wrapping starts. Blanket first, stretch wrap over the blanket to hold it, and corner protectors on anything with a hard edge. Marble, glass, and stone tops come off, get padded on both faces, and travel standing on edge between padded pieces in the truck.

Placement closes the job. Every piece has a room and a spot decided with you or your designer before move day, and our movers set it there, level it, and reattach the top or the hardware before they move on to the next one.

Pieces That Call for White Glove Handling

Certain items get flagged for white glove on almost every inventory. These four groups cover most of them.

Antiques and Heirlooms

A secretary desk from a grandmother’s house in Crestline, a farm table that has fed four generations, a highboy with drawers that stick in August. Old joints and old finishes do not forgive a bump. Our movers pull the drawers and wrap them separately, pad every surface, and lift the piece by its frame instead of its top.

Art, Canvases and Mirrors

Framed pieces get paper, then bubble wrap, then a mirror carton sized to the frame. Large canvases and oversized mirrors travel standing up, strapped to the truck wall with padding on both sides. The same wrapping goes into our packing services when art is part of a bigger packing job.

Designer and Upholstered Furniture

Velvet sofas, linen sectionals, leather club chairs, and custom pieces from a designer’s showroom get a clean blanket wrap with no tape touching the fabric, then stretch wrap over the blanket. Legs come off where they were made to come off. Dining chairs are wrapped one by one and never stacked on each other.

Pianos Inside a Full Move

We move pianos only when they are part of a full household move. On a residential move where the piano is on the inventory, it gets its own padding, its own board and dolly, and a mover count set with its weight in mind. We do not take pianos as a single-item job.

Working With Designers, Builders and Estate Sales

White glove jobs often involve someone besides the homeowner. Interior designers send us a floor plan with each piece marked to a room and a wall, and our movers place it to that plan, down to which side of the bed the nightstand goes on. Designers who furnish offices book the same handling for a lobby or a boardroom through our commercial moving service.

On a new build in Chelsea or Brook Highland, we set the delivery date with the builder so furniture arrives after the floors are sealed and the painters are gone.

For an estate sale, we work from the sale’s item list, collect the pieces a buyer has purchased or the family is keeping, and deliver them with the same wrap and the same placement. When a collection is leaving the state, the movers who wrap it here ride with it and unwrap it at the destination, as part of our long-distance moving service.

Neighborhoods Where We Run White Glove Moves

Close to home, our movers are a short drive from Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, and Liberty Park, from the larger homes in Hoover around Ross Bridge and Bluff Park, and from the Edgewood cottages in Homewood.

Up I-59, the historic Cahaba Project houses in Trussville hold older pieces that need the same care, and so do the homes on the Oak Mountain side of Pelham down I-65. West on I-20/59, family furniture coming out of older houses in Bessemer gets the same wrap.

Downtown Birmingham condos and high-rise units get white-glove handling through our apartment moving service, with the elevator padded and a dock time set before the truck arrives. For an address not listed here, ask us.

What You Get at the End

The job ends inside the house, after the truck is empty. Before our movers leave, you get:

  • Every piece set in the room and on the wall it was planned for
  • Tops, legs, drawers, and hardware put back on
  • Beds, tables, and shelving rebuilt by the same movers who run our FF&E installation projects
  • A room-by-room walkthrough with you to confirm each piece is where you want it
  • The blankets, wrap, paper, and empty cartons we brought in carried back out

On a four-bedroom house move inside Birmingham, our movers protected, loaded, delivered, and placed everything over three days, and that placement day was written into the schedule at the estimate stage. A white-glove move is planned around that last walkthrough.