NYC to Washington DC movers with one flat price to the District
Swapping New York for the Washington area usually means leaving one managed building for another, so there are two certificates of insurance to file and two elevator bookings to make before anything is loaded. Your quote is a single flat, guaranteed price that covers the whole road from your current block to the new address.
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NYC to Washington DC
Both buildings sorted before the drive south
Apartment buildings with rules sit at both ends of this move. Your New York building will want its certificate of insurance before the elevator is yours, and plenty of buildings in DC and Arlington ask for one of their own before they will confirm a move-in date. We take both of those up with the management company at each address ourselves, and we book the elevator or the loading dock wherever one needs reserving. The truck’s spot on your New York block is worked out before the day as well, and if you’d rather cover the details on a call, we are on (212) 203-3171.
The crew that wraps and loads at your New York address stays with the job the whole way, so the people carrying your dresser into the new bedroom are the same ones who padded it in the old one. Furniture makes the drive wrapped in moving blankets and strapped to the truck wall, and the arrival day is agreed with you during the quoting, so the DC management office can be given the date it asks for.
Where we deliver
Across DC and the close-in suburbs
Washington DC proper
A Capitol Hill rowhouse hands the crew a staircase and a street too narrow to park twice on, while a Navy Yard tower hands them a loading dock and a booking sheet to fill in.
Get your flat quoteArlington
The towers from Rosslyn through Ballston tend to want a loading dock reservation before move-in, and we make that booking with your new building.
Get your flat quoteAlexandria
Old Town’s brick streets leave a truck very little room to manoeuvre, so we find out beforehand where yours can stop and how long the walk to your door will be.
Get your flat quoteBethesda and Chevy Chase
An apartment near downtown Bethesda usually comes with an elevator to reserve, while a Chevy Chase house asks only that the driveway be clear on the morning.
Get your flat quoteSilver Spring and Takoma Park
Buildings near the Silver Spring Metro usually assign a move-in slot, so yours is reserved with management before the truck leaves Queens, and a Takoma Park porch simply wants a clear path from the curb.
Get your flat quoteWhole apartments and houses
From a studio to a full family home, furniture makes the trip padded and strapped, and every box goes on the truck already labelled for its new room.
Get your flat quoteIncluded in every booking
What every NYC to DC move carries as standard
Not one of these is an extra you get asked about on the morning. They sit inside the guaranteed price from the start, whichever side of the Potomac the truck finishes on.
- One guaranteed price agreed before loading day
- COI paperwork handled with the management office at each end
- Elevator and dock bookings made wherever a building needs them
- A legal curb spot secured for the truck outside your building
- Furniture padded and strapped down for the drive
- The floors and door frames padded before we start carrying
- Every box marked up for the DC room it is headed to
- Bed frames unbolted at the New York end and reassembled where you want them
One flat price, locked in before moving day
Your quote is a guaranteed flat fee for the whole job. If moving day runs long, you still pay the number you agreed.
Flat-fee pricing
What goes into a New York to Washington quote
- What’s going on the truck
- a one-bedroom’s worth of boxes needs less truck than a whole townhouse, so the quote begins with your inventory.
- The corridor itself
- New York to Washington is a bit over two hundred miles of I-95, and that mileage is part of the price from the start.
- The buildings at each end
- a walk-up in Queens and an Arlington tower with a dock cost different amounts of carrying time, and that time sits inside the price.
- Room for the truck
- when the front of your New York building is all hydrant and bus stop, we find the truck a legal spot before moving day.
- Any packing you add
- hand over the china and the glassware and it is wrapped and boxed before loading day, priced inside the same guarantee.
Add-on
Boxes done properly before the truck loads
We can box up a couple of delicate rooms or take on the whole place in the run-up to loading day. Everything is packed firm and full with paper taking up the gaps, because the road through Delaware will find any rattle you leave in a box. Whatever we pack is priced inside your guarantee along with everything else.
Storage, picked up and brought back
If the new place isn’t ready yet, we arrange the storage and load your things in ourselves, still wrapped from the move. When you have the keys, we bring it all back.
Questions about moving from New York to Washington
What keeps the price flat over two hundred miles?
Your price starts with your list of what is going and a picture of the buildings at both ends, with the mileage counted in before we send it. Once accepted, the price stands even if the Arlington loading dock runs an hour behind.
Is a New York to DC move legal for you to run yourselves?
It is. Moving anyone across a state line takes federal operating authority, and we hold our own, so the truck loaded outside your New York building is the one that pulls up at the new address, in the District itself or out in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. The registrations behind that authority are listed in full on our licenses page whenever you feel like checking.
When will my things get to Washington?
We agree the delivery day with you while the price is being put together, and the elevator or dock booking at the DC end is made to match it. The plan you approve before booking has a real date on it.
Will you pack for us before the move south?
Happily, and you decide how far we go. Have us box just the breakables and keep the easy rooms for yourself, or hand us every shelf in the place. Say so when you ask for your price and the guarantee stretches to cover it.
What if my DC place is not ready when New York needs me out?
Storage slots into the middle of the move whenever the two dates refuse to meet. We load you out on the day New York insists and keep everything in storage we set up for you. The drive south finishes once the DC address is yours to open, and if you give us both dates at the start, one guaranteed price covers the lot.
How far ahead should a move to the DC area be booked?
Ideally a few weeks, mostly because two management offices sign their certificates at their own pace. If moving day is already close, put both addresses on the form so the two offices can be approached at once.