Boxes built for I-5, not just the stairwell
A rushed self-pack job usually ends with a chipped dresser or a cracked serving dish at the new place. This is what Aragon Moving Systems packs like day in and day out, and the difference shows up in what survives the trip.
One number, set before the tape comes out
Eddie Vasquez walks the home once, sizes up what each room actually needs, and quotes labor plus materials as a single figure. Nothing gets added once boxes start filling.
What shows up with the packing crew
| Box type | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Standard cartons | Books, kitchen odds and ends, the overflow from closets and drawers |
| Dish-pack boxes | Plates, bowls, stemware, anything with an edge that chips |
| Wardrobe boxes | Hanging clothes stay on a bar the entire drive |
| Custom crates | Mirrors, artwork, flat-panel screens, anything built around glass or a frame |
| Moisture-rated wrap | Wood furniture and instruments, shielded from coastal humidity |
| Room-coded labels | Every box marked for where it lands before it leaves the house |
A hillside garage gets the same care as a bookshelf
A Los Feliz garage holding a decade of gear nobody’s sorted gets the same treatment as one shelf of paperbacks in a studio rental. Volume doesn’t change the standard.
Downtown condos add a wrinkle of their own: boxes have to sit staged and ready the moment the building opens its freight elevator, since the property manager sets that window, not us. A job tied to a production schedule usually compresses packing into a tighter stretch, sometimes overnight between call sheets. How something’s wrapped depends on how fragile it is, loading stays snug enough that nothing shifts once the truck moves.
Timing packing day around the schedule
- Clear the garage or hillside storage room ahead of time instead of the morning the truck arrives
- Or scale back to just the kitchen and breakables, and box the rest yourself
- Most full homes finish packing the day before, leaving move day free for the drive
- A smaller home can pack and load the same day if a production schedule forces it
- One crew handles both packing and hauling, so there’s a single point of contact if anything’s damaged
What the price actually buys
A properly taped box makes it down I-15 or I-10 without incident. We’ve unloaded plenty of self-packed kitchens where a dish towel and good intentions were standing in for bubble wrap.
Standard coverage runs $0.60 per pound on anything this crew packs, with a higher declared value available on request.
