Abbotsford Movers
If you’re looking for Abbotsford movers that can do it all, you’ve come to the right place! Whether you need packing, local moving, long distance moving or Abbotsford storage, we would love to help you with any moving needs you have.
Your Abbotsford Moving Company
Jon, our owner, has lived in Abbotsford for the last 30 years. This is home, and there are no plans of that changing. In fact, Jon even went to, and graduated from Abbotsford Senior in 2000. Over the years we’ve networked with a lot of other businesses and home service providers and are happy to share their info here.
If you are looking to Shop Local, you can rest assured that we are exactly what you are looking for. We’re not a nation-wide chain, we are a small, family run business that takes great pride in serving our neighbors, friends and family really well. If you are ever at the Abbotsford Rec Centre on Saturday mornings, you may see Jon and his twin boys playing at the open gym, or at Exhibition Park on Saturday afternoons, trying not to let it too many goals for the men’s league soccer team.
Abbotsford Moving Services we offer
Local Moves
What is a local move? Basically, it’s a move within about an hour of where you currently live. Most of the time when someone lives in Abbotsford, they move to another home in Abbotsford, or to nearby places like Chilliwack, Mission or Langley.
Whether you are in Auguston, Eagle Mountain, Fairfield, Clearbrook or South Abbotsford, we’ve got your covered. Even Pepin Brook, although I typically forget it’s part of Abbotsford.
Local moves can include:
- House moves
- Condo moves
- Townhouse moves
- Abbotsford piano moving
- Office moves
- Small moves, such as a handful of items or appliances to be delivered to a new home
Regardless of the size of your move, it is typically a 1 day process, however at the time of your quote you will be told exactly what to expect and what the exact price will be.
What Guarantees Does Our Moving Company Offer?
Guaranteed price
For each quote you receive from Fraser Valley Movers, you can rest easy knowing it is actually a firm, set-in-stone price.
It’s not an estimate that can change later on. The benefit to you is that you can budget for your move and know it’ll be that amount.
Even if an atmospheric river causes highways to close and you are moving to Kamloops, your price will be the quoted amount, even though the move took 13 hrs longer than usual. And yes, that is a real life example from a couple years ago. If you want the full version, check it out.
Your moving quote is given to you right away, at the end of the walk-through of your home. If you have questions about your move, that is a great time to get those sorted out. However, if you want to check out common questions, click here
How can we offer a guaranteed price? Because of the in-person quoting process. Actually seeing all the items to move allows for us to create an accurate price. If you just took some info over the phone, it’s impossible to have it be precise (trust me, I tried for the first few years of owning a moving company and it was a disaster)!
Guaranteed Arrival Time
our clients can expect our movers to show up within a pre-planned 1 hour arrival window. Typically, our starting time is between 8-9am, and our clients love knowing their movers will be at their home on time.
How can we offer a guaranteed time?
We only book 1 job per day for each crew.
That means when you hire our company, you are the first and only client that crew will move on your moving day. This is great news.
You crew will be fresh (not tired) and they will be on time. We want you to feel really confident in our on-time arrival promise, so we’ll pay you $200 if our crew is later than the 1 hour arrival window (pretty awesome for you. However, if you are thinking you found a way to make some money, I will disappoint you….we won’t be late.
Long Distance Moves
If you are looking to move away from Abbotsford to a destination within BC but out of the Fraser Valley, we’ve got you covered!
Process
Usually these moves are a 2 day process, although it can be 3 days if it’s a really far destination or if several trucks are involved.
- Day 1 - load the truck(s) with items from your Abbotsford home and/or storage locker. We park the truck(s) at our yard overnight. Don’t worry, the yard is fully gated and secure and we’ve done this literally hundreds of times without ever having an incident. Your items are safe.
- Day 2 - the truck(s) are driven to your destination and unloaded into your new home. Our driver will be in communication with you to give updated ETA.
- Day 3 (if needed) - items will be unloaded on the morning of day 3 to finish the unloading process
The most common area we go are:
Moving to Kelowna, we do it all the time!
In fact, on this page is a testimonial of someone we did that for.
It’s very common for our clients to go to the Okanagan, Interior and Vancouver Island.
All 3 of those areas have unique challenges and factors to consider, and we have the experience to ensure that your long distance move goes really smoothly.
Testimonial
Review From a Client
Packing Services
Don’t want to tackle the packing yourself for your Abbotsford move? Perfect, we’d love to help.
It’s simple, all you have to do is tell us at the time of the quote that you would like to explore our packing services and we’ll give you an exact quote of the cost of that.
Be aware that the packing quote includes both labor and materials, which is great, because it means you don’t need to drive all up and down South Fraser Way, trying to see which liquor store has boxes.
Ps. Everything Wine, off of McCallum Rd always has a pile of empty boxes by their front door.
Liquor boxes are great for it you pack yourself, but here’s a word of caution: try not to use more than 20 of them. Because they are so small, if you use a lot of those boxes, it will result in a more inefficient moving process.
How Long Will it Take for the Movers to Pack my House?
Completely depends on how much there is to pack.
We know, that was exactly what you were hoping to hear! But, it’s true, there is a lot of variation to the time it takes.
We have spent days packing for our clients because of the volume of items they have. I remember 1 situation where we filled a 20 foot sea can with solely boxes so the home could be staged.
Storage in Abbotsford
We have local storage right here in Abbotsford for our clients.
If you’d like to arrange your own storage facility, we can move it there for you, or you can let us arrange our storage and do everything for you.
The benefit of that is there is less logistics for you.
Our storage is not suited for every situation.
If you are needing regular acces to your things in storage, then the best solution for you is to arrange for your own storage and we will move it there for you.
When using our storage, access is very limited and our clients typically never touch their items until we move them back out of storage for them.
Why Choose Us as Your Abbotsford Movers?
Specific moving plan designed with your needs and wants in mind
Because of your unique moving needs and situation, it’s crucial you have someone come in person to take a look at your home and come up with the best gameplan for your Abbotsford move.
This is what I love doing!
Hi, I’m Jon, the owner of Fraser Valley Movers, and I LOVE helping navigate people through the stressful process of moving. I would come to your home for the in person quote and find out what is important to you and create a plan for your moving day.
Think of me as your Google for Moving and call/text or email me and I’ll be happy to be of service.
If it’s late at night and you want answers right away, see if we have answers in our FAQ page.
Experience and Attitude
Since 2013 I have owned and operated my own moving companies. I’ve learned a lot of things the hard way and feel pretty good about the best approach to take in different situations.
We are a boutique moving company and aren’t doing a HUGE volume of work every month. We have limited our size to 2 trucks and crews and that is on purpose. Having a company of that size means I can control the quality to a really high degree and we can give consistently superb service and experiences to our Abbotsford moving clients.
We Care About Others
Serving others is a core value of our business and we are proud to partner with a local charity to serve others. We regularly help In As Much with moving refugees to new housing.
We Are Not Wasteful
There are a couple practical ways we reduce the amount of waste:
Recycling things whenever possible. Often we have clients that don’t have room for a couch or china cabinet, or other furniture. Maybe they are downsizing or wanting new items, whatever the reason, they ask us to take these things away for them. Rather than immediately going to the dump, we try to connect with local charities or thrift stores and see if they can sell them. Ideally they can and we can avoid throwing things into the landfill. The 3 main places we try to donate are:
We use elastic bands for securing moving blankets to furniture. Almost every moving company in Canada uses tape to hold the blankets onto the furniture it’s protecting, but doing that is wasteful. The tape can only be used once and then needs to be thrown away and it eventually tears the blanket, so that it also needs to be discarded. By using elastics, we are able to dramatically reduce the waste. A typical move will use anywhere from 3-15 rolls of tape, so this really adds up over weeks, months and years!
Our Client Love Us
Here is a text conversation with a client we’ve moved within Abbotsford. We’ve also moved her daughter and 2 sisters.
Accountability
We make things right. If there is damage on a move, we take the time and put in the effort to create a solution.
Here’s a video that shows exactly what happened when accidental damage happened on a move.
If this all sounds good to you and you want a company that can offer what we can, I’d love to meet you for your in person quote