Furniture Moving in Prince Abdulmajeed District, Jeddah

Prince Abdulmajeed sits in the southern sector of Jeddah, roughly ten kilometres from the city centre. It is bordered to the north by Prince Fawaz, to the east by Al Ajwad, to the south by Al Sanabil, and to the west by Al Jawharah.

In practice that means most moves starting or ending here travel between adjacent districts rather than across the whole city, which is usually a single run. If you are moving to north Jeddah or out of the city, we schedule the loading early to stay ahead of midday traffic.

The built environment mixes villas and large houses with newer apartment blocks. That mix is exactly why one standard quote does not fit every address here. A villa with an internal staircase needs a different crew and a different sequence from a second-floor flat with a working lift, and pretending otherwise is how jobs run over.

• Tell us on the first call: villa or flat? Internal stairs or a lift?
• Measure the narrowest point of the staircase and send the number — it alone decides whether a wardrobe is dismantled or carried whole.
• If the house has several floors, say which one holds the bedrooms. That floor takes the longest.

The difference is not only size. A flat has one entrance, usually a lift, and an obvious route. A villa has floors, an annexe, a yard and sometimes two entrances, and some items can go out through the garden door if it is wider than the stairwell.

In a villa the upper floor is emptied first, not the ground floor, which surprises people. The reason is that the staircase has to stay clear for the whole descent. Start downstairs and the hallway fills with furniture, blocking the very route everything else needs.

Duration differs too. A two-bedroom flat can finish in half a day; a fully furnished villa takes a full day and sometimes two. We put the expected duration in the written quote, because springing a second day on a customer after work has started is not an acceptable way to operate.

• Upper floors are emptied before the ground floor so the stairs stay clear.
• Yard and annexe furniture is loaded last, being the least delicate.
• Alternative exits — garden or rear doors — are checked before we plan around the stairs.

In this district the new house is often still being painted, having kitchens fitted or getting its post-construction clean when the move is scheduled. If the truck arrives while the paint is still wet, the only option is to leave the furniture wrapped in the hall, which blocks the fit-out crew and exposes the furniture to dust at the same time.

The rule is simple: furniture does not come in until every task involving scaffolding, spray or water is finished. Electrics, plumbing, paint and air conditioning first, then the deep clean, then the furniture. Any other order means packing twice and paying twice.

If the schedule will not allow it, we suggest a middle path: move the furniture for the floors that are ready and store the rest for a week or two, then deliver it once the remaining floor is finished. That is far cheaper than postponing the whole move or letting good furniture sit in construction dust.

• Get the finishing contractor to confirm the paint completion date in writing before booking the move.
• Fit curtains before bedroom furniture goes in if you can — fitting them over assembled furniture is much harder.
• Agree a phased plan with us if the house will be ready in stages.

Moving is priced by volume, which means every item you will not use in the new house costs you twice: once in the moving bill and again in the space it occupies. A week before the survey, walk through the house with three lists: moving, selling or donating, discarding.

The rule we give customers: if something has not been used in a year and carries no sentimental value, price its move before deciding. Moving an old bookcase sometimes costs more than a new one, particularly if it has to be dismantled and rebuilt.

The reverse also holds. Do not discard solid timber pieces because they look dated. Solid wood can be repaired and refinished and will last decades, whereas the modern replacement is often particle board that will not survive being dismantled and rebuilt twice. That is a joinery observation, not a sales pitch.

• Measure the new rooms before deciding to move large wardrobes and majlis sets.
• Photograph the store room and the annexe — they are usually the biggest surprise in the volume.
• Agree the three lists with the family before moving day, not on the morning.