Packing and Unpacking Services in Texas
The crew that packs your home is the crew that loads it and moves it. We bring the materials with us. Every item gets the protection it actually needs, and every box is labeled, so the right things land in the right rooms.
Matthew & Mois provides packing and unpacking services in Texas, handled by the same in-house crews that load the truck and drive your move. We are a family-owned company based in Alvarado, licensed under MC 1710429 and USDOT 4368130. Our crews arrive with professional packing materials and carry additional supplies on every move, so a room you decide to hand over at the last minute does not turn into a problem. Every item needs a different level of protection, and our crews are trained to recognize the right method for each piece. Furniture is wrapped, fragile belongings get additional cushioning, and every box is labeled by room. Packing is billed hourly, and unpacking is available at delivery when you ask for it.
Pack the whole house, or just the rooms you want help with
Some customers hand over the entire house and come back to it finished. Others have the bedrooms and the garage under control and want help only with the parts that make them nervous. Both are normal, and you do not have to decide all of it at once.
The rooms people hand off most often are the kitchen, the china cabinet, the artwork, and the electronics. Those take the longest and break the easiest.
Tell us at booking what you want packed. Planning ahead is what lets us load the right materials and equipment, and it keeps the hours down on packing day. If you have specialty pieces, a piano, a gun safe, antiques, or oversized furniture, mention those too, so the proper equipment comes with the crew instead of being improvised on the day.
Tell us which rooms you want handled and we bring everything for them.
What happens to the things in one room
A room does not get packed as one job. It gets packed as a sequence, and the same sequence runs in every room of the house, which is what makes the boxes findable at the other end.
Wrap first, then pack, then label. Accurate labeling is what makes unloading and furniture placement efficient at the other end, and it is the part customers mention most often afterwards, because it decides whether your first night in the new house involves hunting for the coffee maker.
What the protection actually looks like
We never compromise when it comes to protecting our customers' belongings, and in practice that comes down to choices the crew makes room by room. Furniture gets moving blankets and shrink wrap. Glassware and china go into dish packs with cushioning layered around them. A piece that genuinely needs a crate gets one built around it.
We are moving more than furniture. We are moving treasured possessions, family heirlooms, and things that cannot be replaced at any price.
Blankets first, then shrink wrap
Hardware labeled to the piece it came off
A crate built on site when a piece needs one
Loaded before we leave the yard
From booking to beds put back together
Booking
A real inventory
We walk your home, or you send photos and video, and the estimate comes from what is actually there.
Scope
Full house or specific rooms, and whether you want unpacking at the other end.
Specialty items
Anything unusual gets flagged now, so the equipment and materials are prepped before moving day.
Packing day
We bring the materials
Cartons, paper, blankets, shrink wrap and tape, plus extra supplies in case a room grows.
Wrap, disassemble, label
Furniture comes apart when it needs to, gets wrapped, and every box and piece is labeled and inventoried.
Loaded with a plan
How a trailer is loaded decides what arrives intact, so the load is planned rather than stacked.
Delivery
Placed by the labels
Boxes and furniture go to the rooms the labels say, not into a pile in the living room.
Put back together
Whatever we took apart goes back together. Our crews work together regularly, which is why this goes faster than people expect.
Unpacked if you asked
Boxes opened and contents put away where you want them, arranged at booking. See the section below.
This is the same sequence whether you are going across town or moving your household across state lines, where the packing matters even more because the load is on the road longer.
A straight answer about what packing costs
Packing is billed hourly. We say that plainly because the hourly part is what puts the cost in your hands.
Two things drive the hours. One is how much you want packed, which is yours to decide. The other is how prepared the crew is when it walks through the door, and that depends on knowing the scope before moving day. A crew that arrives expecting two rooms and finds six spends its first hour reorganizing instead of packing.
You have probably seen "free packing" advertised around the industry. Packing is never actually free. The labor and the materials cost real money, and when they are offered at no charge, that cost is sitting somewhere else in the quote. We would rather show you the line so you can decide how much of it you want.
If you are comparing movers, the federal Protect Your Move program from the US Department of Transportation is a good place to read about estimates and what a licensed mover has to disclose.
Get a number built from a real inventory of your home.
What unpacking actually includes
Included at delivery
- Furniture placed in the rooms you want it, based on the labels.
- Everything we took apart at pickup put back together.
- A final walkthrough with you before the crew leaves.
On request, additional work
- Boxes opened and contents put away in the cabinets and closets where you want them.
- Billed as labor, and arranged at booking so the crew and the time are planned for it.
We would rather you know that difference now than find out on delivery day. "Unpacking" is a word that often sits vague in a quote and gets sorted out in the driveway, and that is where the arguments start.
Walk into a home where the beds are already back together.
Questions people ask about packing
When do I need to tell you I want packing?
Can you pack only part of my home?
Do I need to buy boxes and supplies before you come?
How do you handle fragile and high-value pieces?
Will you unpack everything when you deliver?
How much does packing cost?
How will I find anything after the move?
Texas families, in their own words
Tell us what you want packed
Send us the rooms you want handled and the date you are moving, and we will build an estimate from a real inventory rather than a guess.
We are a family company, and we move memories, not boxes. Your things get handled the way we would want someone handling ours.