Moving or Closing an Office in Tallinn: What Happens to Desks, Cabinets and Old Furniture

An office is moving, downsizing, or closing, and someone has to decide what happens to the furniture. Some of it is going to a new location. Some of it needs to be removed.

Deciding what moves and what gets removed

Before a quote, it helps to separate the furniture into what is going to a new location and what is being removed and disposed of. This decision shapes the rest of the job.

What to send for a quote

For an office job, useful information includes the current address and the new one if items are moving there, the floor and whether there is a lift or goods access, and which pieces of furniture fall into each category.

A real job: a 4-floor office

One real job involved a 4-floor office with a lift and good loading access. The client was a furniture-selling company. Desks, tables, cabinets and other office furniture needed to be sorted: some pieces moved to a new location, and some old furniture went to disposal.

Three workers handled the job, which took about 5 hours.

When furniture needs to be taken apart

Larger desks, tables and cabinets may need to be partly dismantled to move them through the building safely, whether they are going to a new location or being removed. Flagging this before the quote helps the job get planned for it.