A pack-out reads differently in Madison because the housing stock keeps producing heirloom solid wood. Vilas bungalows with built-in oak buffets the carpenter cut in 1923. Maple Bluff lake cottages with cedar hope chests three generations old. Mansion Hill brownstones with walnut secretaries someone’s grandmother carted out of Milwaukee on the Hiawatha line in 1953. East-Wash four-squares with solid-oak hutches that have lived through eighty-five Wisconsin winters in the same dining room. Wisconsin MOOvers writes pack-out separately from the carry because the materials and the labor pattern are different things, and we want you to see both lines on the binding figure.
Pack-out pricing layers on top of the move. Whole-home pack runs a quoted day rate scaled to the home size; partial pack for a kitchen, a china hutch, an attic, a basement, or just the breakables runs hourly at $175 with two packers. Materials — double-wall cartons, archive paper, dish-pack inserts, custom wood crates for the irregular pieces — bill as a separate transparent line, no padding. We build custom wood crates in our Robertson Road bay for solid-oak hutches that won’t survive a single dolly tilt, for tall narrow secretaries, for the leaded-glass dining-room insets that pass for furniture in older Vilas houses. The crate gets a foam-lined interior, screws on the lid so it can be opened intact at the destination, and a dual-wrap moisture barrier on any January or February pack-out so a 65-degree dining room to a 50-degree truck box to a 68-degree new living room doesn’t shock the finish.
The Saturday pack day is the standard. Two or three uniformed Wisconsin MOOvers packers, in W-2 polos, with a clipboard inventory and a numbered carton system, will work a four-bedroom East-Wash four-square from breakfast through late afternoon. Kitchens get dish packs and cell-divider cartons. Closets get wardrobe boxes hung straight off the rod. Books get small cartons that don’t blow out the bottom. The garage gets a separate manifest because what comes out of a Wisconsin garage is its own catalog. Move-day Monday, the same crew (or a Lukas-led Monday crew with a Saturday handoff sheet) loads the truck off the inventory list. Nothing gets re-handled, nothing gets re-wrapped, and the kitchen lands in the kitchen.
What's Covered
- Custom wood crate built in our Robertson Road bay for solid-oak hutches, tall narrow secretaries and leaded-glass dining-room insets — foam-lined interior, screw-down lid for intact opening at the destination
- Dual-wrap moisture barrier on any January or February pack-out so a heirloom walnut headboard does not crack on the swing from a 65-degree Vilas dining room to a 50-degree heated truck box to a 68-degree new living room
- Two-packer hourly figure at $175 for partial pack — kitchen, china hutch, attic or basement — or a binding day-rate for whole-home Saturday pack scaled to the East-Wash four-square or Maple Bluff cottage at walkthrough
- Numbered-carton inventory with room-tagged labels matched to a clipboard manifest so the kitchen carton lands in the kitchen and the basement-Christmas-decorations carton does not end up on the living-room floor
- Dish packs with cell-divider inserts, wardrobe boxes hung off the closet rod, archive paper rather than newsprint on every breakable so nothing arrives with ink smudge on the porcelain
- Saturday pack and Monday load run by the same Lukas-led crew with a written handoff sheet so the people who wrapped the dining room are the people who put it on the dolly Monday morning
What's the Cost?
Two uniformed Akamai-crew W-2 movers plus the 26-ft straight truck post out of the Robertson Road gate at $175 an hour; for a studio, junior one-bedroom or a tight in-building lanai-to-lanai swap that slots cleanly into a half-day, Dustin will lock it as a flat figure instead, opening at $565 all-in.
Everything the day calls for is folded into that hourly figure: the two W-2 movers themselves, the 26-ft Wisconsin MOOvers truck, quilted blankets, masonite floor runners, two-wheel and four-wheel dollies, ratchet straps, walk-boards, and the January windchill mats we put down off the porch in any month with salt on the sidewalk. Fuel adders, third-floor stair charges, long-carry charges from the alley to the door — none of those line items show up on a Wisconsin MOOvers invoice, period.
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