“Owen and Derek were awesome!”
Donna Kilpatrick
Monroeville · local
Pittsburgh, PA Movers — Pennsylvania-Registered Since 2013
Whole-House Packing Service
Hand us the whole house and everything fragile gets boxed and cushioned for the road, or keep a room or two for yourself and let us wrap the rest — the tape and cartons ride on the truck either way.
- Your number arrives in writing before the truck is ever scheduled, not the morning it shows
- A fleet of 6, parked under one roof, staffed entirely by people we hired ourselves
- A $1M cargo policy backs every single job, anywhere across Greater Pittsburgh
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Full-Home Packing Jobs Around Pittsburgh, PA
A Full-Service Packing Quote That Doesn’t Change Once We’re Standing In Your Living Room
Hand us the whole house and everything fragile gets boxed and cushioned for the road, or keep a room or two for yourself and let us wrap the rest — the tape and cartons ride on the truck either way.
The same person who priced your job is riding along on the truck that shows up — we don’t hand it to whoever’s free that day — and the number doesn’t move whether it’s a third-floor walk-up in Oakland or a house tucked into one of Homestead’s steep hillside streets.
Holds Up On Every Job
- Nolan personally reviews every quote before a truck ever gets scheduled against it
- Your crew arrives already briefed on the stair count, the floor number, and whatever needs extra padding
- The figure from the walkthrough is the figure on the invoice — it doesn’t creep upward in between
- Steep hillside streets, a bridge closure across the Mon, a narrow rowhouse stairwell — we route around it so you don’t have to
How A Packing Job Gets Booked, Start To Finish
Ring the office about a Packing job in Pittsburgh and you’ll usually get Nolan Brennan or Grant Petrosky on the line directly — one of our six trucks runs the job top to bottom, no rental fleet, no day-labor crew assembled that morning.
Smaller Packing jobs typically come out cheaper billed hourly; once a household gets bigger, a flat number usually wins instead — either way, that figure gets written down before the truck ever pulls out of our Turtle Creek lot, stairs and mileage already folded in.
A rowhouse turnover in Wilkinsburg, a hillside property out in Churchill, an older place in North Versailles with a narrow stairwell — the crew we send doesn’t change with the address, and a piano rides on the same ticket as everything else.
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Quick Answers First
Pittsburgh Packing Jobs: Questions We Hear Often
What actually drives the cost of a Packing job?
Somebody looks at the real rooms — in person or over video — and prices it off what’s actually there rather than guessing over the phone. Whichever billing method applies, that number holds once the crew is on-site.
What licensing stands behind The Moving Firm’s Packing work in PA?
A Pennsylvania household goods carrier registration covers in-state jobs, US DOT and MC authority covers anything crossing a state line, and $1M of cargo coverage applies either way. Every truck making the run is one we own outright.
Can I get booked the same week in Pittsburgh?
More often than people expect, especially midweek or once you’re past the first ten days of the month. Call the office and Marcus will check the calendar — a same-week opening turns up more than you’d guess.
Do I need to supply my own boxes?
Not unless you want to. Pads, straps, and a hand truck are standard on every job, and if packing isn’t something you want to deal with, we bring cartons and paper too.
The Quick Version
Booking The Moving Firm, One Step At A Time
1
Tell Us The Basics
Pickup address, destination, and a rough date is all Grant needs on his end to start building a price.
2
We Take A Look
A quick video call or an in-person walkthrough tells us the stair count, whether a piano’s involved, and anything else that could slow a standard crew down.
3
Mention Anything Unusual
Extra storage, a gun cabinet that takes two people to move, whatever the oddball item is — flag it during the walkthrough and it folds into your existing number instead of appearing as a surprise later.
4
You Get It In Writing
Whatever number lands in your inbox is the number you’ll sign off on come moving day — it doesn’t quietly climb in the meantime.
5
The Truck Shows Up
Moving day arrives and so does one of our trucks, running the crew size we already discussed with you.
The Full Range Of What We Run Across Greater Pittsburgh
Our own trucks and our own crew have covered Greater Pittsburgh since 2013, one job at a time — a rowhouse in Wilkinsburg and a hillside property in Churchill get held to the exact same standard.
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Nothing gets polished before it’s posted — easy in-town jobs and complicated ones alike, pulled straight from real moves across Greater Pittsburgh.
“Gabriel and Marcus were fantastic early on a cold Pittsburgh morning. Getting everything into the third-floor walk-up was a challenge — they made it happen anyway!”
Jennifer Hauf
Wilkinsburg · local
“I had a great experience with The Moving Firm. I'd researched several companies and was hesitant to commit to anyone at first — glad I did.”
Jenna Richardson
Swissvale · local
“Owen and Gabriel were awesome! They went above and beyond to make sure everything was taken care of.”
Ryan Larson
Turtle Creek · local
“We used The Moving Firm to move us from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and I was so impressed with the customer service, speed, and safety. Owen and Derek were fantastic.”
Zoraya Southward
Pittsburgh · long_distance
“I had a great experience with The Moving Firm. From start to finish, the team was organized, friendly, and efficient. Marcus made sure our storage pickup was scheduled around our closing delay without any hassle.”
Sheena Houston
North Versailles · short_term
Us Versus The Alternatives
Rent a truck yourself and you’re the one lifting; book a drop-off pod and a stranger drives it; go through a broker and your contact info gets sold to whoever bids lowest that week. None of those three get you our crew carrying the boxes and a number you agreed to ahead of time.
| The Moving Firm | Brokers | Containers | Truck Rentals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You get the number in writing before anything gets taped up, not after the truck’s already in your driveway | – | |||
| Every set of hands on the truck is on The Moving Firm’s own payroll, never gig-app pickup labor | ||||
| State registration plus federal DOT and MC authority, both on file and current | – | – | ||
| The person unloading your last box tonight is the same one who loaded the first box this morning | ||||
| Packing supplies, the move itself, and reassembly on the other end all live on one quote instead of three separate ones | ||||
| Piano, gun cabinet, an oddly shaped antique — Derek rigs it by hand rather than handing it off to someone else | ||||
| Need somewhere to park your things for a few weeks? Storage space is already sitting there waiting | ||||
| One truck, one crew, start to finish — nothing changes hands between your old driveway and the new one |
Meet The Crew Handling Your Pittsburgh Move
Background-checked, W-2 employees driving trucks the company owns outright — never a name pulled off a gig app the morning of your move.
Nolan Brennan
Owner & Founder 13+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Owen Talbot
Lead Crew Chief 9+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Derek Panko
Senior Mover 7+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Gabriel Nowak
Mover 5+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Marcus Boyle
Move Coordinator & Storage 6+ yrs with The Moving Firm
Grant Petrosky
Operations Manager 8+ yrs with The Moving FirmReady When You Are
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