
About us
Red Carpet Moving And Storage, Inc. “Make your next move with Red Carpet experience”. Headquarters in Walnut Creek, CA & Los Angeles, CA family owned and operated with over 10 Years of experienced, dedicated team from operations to drivers to handle all household goods and commercial relocations making us an exceptionally qualified to help you get through your next move.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Local & Long Distance Residential & Commercial Moves. Short or Long Term Storage. Full Service Packing and Piano Moves. Licensed & Insured. Free In-Home Estimates.
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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Our first step was to work with Dan to schedule the move. He was able to get us scheduled at short notice due to a cancellation. He helped me go over the contents of the locker and estimate the size of the job. He was up front with the rate and how much time it would take. He also made sure to indicate any potential charges for packing items, etc.
The night before the move, Red Carpet's dispatcher called. Once again the parameters of the job were confirmed and all charges were discussed.
The morning of the move, the driver called to give me a heads up when they were about 30 minutes away. This ensured I wasn't wasting time waiting around the storage locker facility for them to arrive.
Once they got to the facility, it took them a little bit of time to get to the actual locker. But that's not their fault - the facility management has placed parking spots for vans/RVs/etc. such that it is very difficult to get a 26' truck through the facility. But the driver was a pro - he found a path to the locker!
The crew got right to work on loading the truck. The furniture was wrapped and organized and the boxes were stacked. The loading took less time than I expected - a little over an hour. In the end, there were a few things left behind - a box of loose bottles of alcohol that can't be moved by regulations and a mirror that I didn't want to pay extra to have securely packed. In all, the 25' storage locker was emptied except for a car's trunk worth of miscellaneous items. They even moved our metal shelves - they wrapped them in plastic with the contents still on them and loaded them right onto the truck.
After loading the truck, they headed across the bay to the new house. They made excellent time getting to San Ramon - they even beat me there! (Although I had to make a stop along the way). Once there, they unloaded the truck at the same speed them loaded it - fast! All the furniture was unloaded, unwrapped, and placed in the desired rooms. They even set up our queen bed, even though it had been disassembled in the locker. Once they were done, they picked up all the packing materials and cleaned everything up. You would hardly know they had been there if you hadn't seen the house without the furniture.
I would absolutely use Red Carpet Moving and Storage again for any moving needs.
Upon arrival at the new house, again he seemed rushed and as a result, did a sloppy job with the mats/carpets resulting in scratches all over the newly refinished wood floor. He also gouged a wall while attempting to move a sofa, that if he'd just taken the feet off of, would have been no problem.
My biggest complaint though has to be his treatment of my bedroom furniture. We invested a lot of money in purchasing a beautifully made walnut bedroom set. The side tables and dresser appear to be floating on their base. One of the side tables now has a large dent in it that was not there before we moved. When he was moving the dresser into place, instead of picking it up to shift it, he tried to drag it across the carpet and in the process, tweaked one of the legs, pulling it out of place. The wood split (I we all hear it) and is now loose. When I got upset about this, he said, just drill another screw in, it will be fine. Admittedly I don't really know about furniture construction and that may very well be the right answer, but I did not appreciate being poo-pooed as if it's not big deal. We invested in this furniture with the expectation that we'd have it for decades and he treated it like it was some cheap piece of particle board. He did not want to write up an incident about this or report it to his boss. By this point in the day, we were 8 hours in and we just wanted to get them out of our house so we could be done.
If it wasn't for the other members of the crew who were professional, hard working and pleasant, I would give much lower ratings overall. I will never use this company again and hope others don't have the same experience.
I used Red Carpet Moving and Storage in my professional role as the Director of Disability Services at a public college, facilitating moving a student from one apartment to another in our campus's residential apartment building, in order to allow a student who uses a wheelchair to move into an accessible unit. We didn't have a lot of time to get this move done and I had already contacted a number of movers who were unable to help, but Dan at Red Carpet was very responsive and was able to make it work. The cost was based on two movers, minimum 3 hours, but they did not charge a travel fee. The workers were quick and professional, and everything went off without a hitch. When I later had a billing question, Sal was likewise responsive and extremely helpful. All in all it was a very positive experience!
The estimator/scheduler I worked with, Dan, came out to our old home several weeks before our planned move date. Of the five or six companies we had originally contacted to request quotes for moving services, only Red Carpet and one other company actually sent a person out to estimate the job in person. Dan walked with me throughout our home and he entered data into custom software he had an a tablet that allowed him to get a good reading on how long it would take, how many movers he would need to send and whether one or multiple trucks would be required.
Dan followed up with me more than once to be sure I had all my questions answered. After we chose to go with Red Carpet, we then set a firm schedule and Red Carpet's scheduling people called a day before to confirm. The drivers then called while en router to let us know they would be arriving soon.
All in all, the moving experience worked perfectly and we were very happy with the result. I would use Red Carpet again and would highly recommend them to anyone in the SF Bay Area in need of moving services.
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