An office move fails or succeeds on one number: downtime. Every hour your team can't work is the real cost of the relocation, dwarfing the moving bill itself. Discount Moving & Storage's office movers in Ottawa are organized around minimizing that number — moves run evenings, nights, and weekends, planned to the desk, and sequenced so Monday morning works.
Our blog's office moving guide is the complete downtime-minimizing playbook, and it's genuinely how we run these jobs. This page covers booking: how office quotes are built, what your team needs to do, and how we handle the parts — IT equipment, filing, furniture systems — that make commercial moves their own discipline.
How an Ottawa office move is planned
It starts with a walkthrough of both spaces: desk count, IT inventory, filing and storage rooms, boardroom furniture, and the building rules at each end — loading dock bookings, freight elevator reservations, and after-hours access procedures are arranged as part of the plan, not discovered at 6 p.m. on move day.
Then comes the labelling system: every desk, chair, monitor, and box is labelled to a destination floor plan, so the crew places everything directly where it will be used. Staff pack their personal desk contents into labelled crates or boxes we supply; our crew handles furniture, systems, and the heavy shared equipment. IT hardware is packed and transported with appropriate care and sequenced early in the unload so your tech setup can start immediately.
Downtown towers, Kanata tech parks, and everything between
Ottawa offices live in two worlds. Downtown and Centretown towers come with property-management rulebooks: freight elevators booked in blocks, dock access windows, and insurance certificates. Kanata's tech parks and suburban office campuses come with space and easy loading, but bigger footprints and serious server and lab equipment. We've moved both kinds, and the planning differences are handled at the walkthrough stage.
Government-adjacent offices add a security layer — access clearances for the crew, restricted floors, and document handling rules. Flag those requirements at booking; scheduling around them is routine for an Ottawa commercial mover, but only if it's known in advance.