Ask anyone what they dread most about moving and the answer isn't the truck — it's the packing. Six weeks of evenings in a sea of cardboard, the kitchen that takes a whole weekend, and the sinking feeling that the "fragile" boxes aren't packed well enough. Discount Moving & Storage's packing services in Ottawa exist for exactly this: professional packers who do in a day what takes households a month.
We pack Ottawa homes every week, and the service flexes to what you actually need — the whole house, the fragile rooms only, or a single tricky room. Materials are part of the quote, boxes are labelled by room, and your move day starts with everything ready to load.
Packing options: full, partial, or fragile-only
Full-home packing is the complete hand-off: the crew arrives a day or two before your move and packs everything, room by room, in proper materials — books in small boxes, linens in big ones, dishes in dish barrels with cell dividers. You walk into a packed house on moving day and out of your new home fully settled within days, not weeks.
Partial packing is the popular middle ground. Most customers hand us the kitchen and the fragile items — the two rooms where amateur packing goes wrong most often — and pack the closets and bedrooms themselves. Fragile-only packing is the minimum viable upgrade: art, china, crystal, and electronics packed to survive the 401, whatever else you DIY. Our kitchen packing guide and fragile items guide show the standard, whoever packs them.
Materials, labelling, and the move-day payoff
Professional packing materials are not optional decoration — corrugated boxes that stack, real packing paper (not newspaper that inks your dishes), bubble wrap for true fragile, and wardrobe boxes that keep suits on hangers. Our packing quotes include the materials, so the number you approve covers the job, not just the labour.
Then there's labelling. Every box is marked with its room and a contents note, and boxes are loaded so the first boxes off the truck are the ones you need first. Add unpacking service at the destination and the whole cycle completes: packed by pros, moved by pros, unpacked by pros.