Full-service packing — the afternoon ahead of the Charm City lift
About a third of my customers don’t want to touch a box. Their kitchen has thirty years of china, their basement has the holiday bins, and the closets have wardrobes deeper than the rowhouse itself. So my crew shows up the day before move day with paper, cartons, and tape, and packs the whole house.
The same uniformed movers who pack you on Friday load you on Saturday. Same names, same shirts, same truck. Nothing gets handed off to a packing sub I’ve never met, because I don’t use subs.
What a full-pack day actually looks like
- Crew arrives with a truck full of cartons and a roll of pre-printed inventory labels
- Kitchen and china go first — every plate paper-wrapped, every glass cell-packed in a dish-pack
- Closets get wardrobe boxes loaned out the morning of, so clothes travel hanging
- Art, mirrors, and marble-top pieces get corner-board and custom crates where it counts
- Each box is labeled by room and tagged on the inventory before it’s stacked in the corner
Partial packing is a real option too
- Kitchen + china only — a typical four-hour add-on with two packers
- Kitchen + closets + art — a full day with two packers for a townhome
- Whole house — one to two days with three packers for a 4-bed Roland Park Victorian
Packing pricing
| Job | Crew | Typical flat rate |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen + china only | 2 packers @ $155/hr | $465–$775 |
| Studio / 1-bed full pack | 2 packers @ $155/hr | $620–$1,080 |
| 2-bed rowhouse full pack | 3 packers @ $205/hr | $1,025–$1,640 |
| 4-bed Roland Park Victorian | 3 packers, 1–2 days | $2,250–$3,750 |
Cartons, paper, tape, mattress bags, and wardrobe boxes are all included in the binding flat rate. Released value at $0.60/lb is standard; full-value protection is optional; up to $1,000,000 cargo coverage per shipment.
Pair the pack with my residential moving the next day, or with a long-distance haul down the I-95 corridor — Theresa stacks the schedule so the same crew runs both days. Coming out of a Mt. Vernon brownstone? Those four-story walk-ups are our specialty.
What is folded into your Baltimore, MD flat rate
- Full pack of every room — kitchen, closets, bathrooms, garage, and the basement storage room
- All cartons supplied: dish-pack, wardrobe, mirror, lamp, picture-frame, and mattress bags
- Premium packing paper, double-walled boxes, and corner-board on art and mirrors
- Custom crating for marble-top dressers, glass dining tables, and Mt. Vernon mantel art
- Itemized inventory by room and box, taped to the binding flat-rate estimate
- Unpack-and-debris-removal option — boxes flattened and hauled off after the unload
What will it run?
Two uniformed movers + the truck on the clock at $155/hr, or close the meter entirely with one countersigned Charm City flat number covering the full job in writing
Moving pads, four-wheel dollies, shrink film and the standard COI paperwork that Inner Harbor and Harbor East buildings demand are folded into either rate. A bump to three movers plus the rig sits at $205/hr.
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