Partial Packing Help

Most households don’t need every box packed by a crew — a lot of people are happy to handle their own closet and bookshelf but would rather not touch the kitchen glassware or a bedroom full of fragile décor. Partial packing splits the work that way: you pack what you’re comfortable with, Vivian’s team packs the rest.

How the Split Works

During the estimate, Adele walks the house with you and marks which rooms you’ll handle and which ones the crew will pack, usually the kitchen, closets with delicate clothing, and anything glass or breakable. Everything you’ve packed yourself still gets a barcode sticker and gets added to the same digital inventory log as the rooms our crew packs — we’re not tracking two separate systems for your boxes and our boxes.

This is also the option a lot of people choose when they’re short on time rather than short on ability — packing a whole house alone in a weekend is a lot, but packing your own bedroom while a crew handles the kitchen and garage cuts that down to something manageable.

What’s Included

• Crew packing for whichever rooms you choose
• Packing materials provided for both crew-packed and self-packed boxes
• Barcode labeling and photo documentation on crew-packed items
• Full inventory scan of self-packed boxes at pickup, even without a photo log inside them

Boxes you’ve already sealed still get scanned onto the truck and scanned off at delivery just like everything else — the barcode goes on the outside of the box regardless of who packed what’s inside it.

A lot of clients also ask us to set aside a first-night box regardless of who handles the rest — sheets, a coffee maker, toiletries, phone chargers — labeled separately so it’s the first thing off the truck instead of buried under everything else. Partial packing gets booked most often for the kitchen and garage, the two rooms with the highest ratio of breakable or oddly shaped items, while bedrooms and living rooms get left to the homeowner. That split isn’t a rule, though — whatever combination fits your timeline is the one Adele builds the estimate around.