You can easily look up licensing on DOT website to be totally confident about your future move with our company. Whether you have sports equipment, antique piano, fragile items, oddly-shaped furniture, or even medical practice, our professional movers are ready to help you.
Our company has full-service movers who are constantly trained to achieve the highest level of proficiency in all types of moving: local, long-distance, or commercial. Our movers and packers in Altadena use the quality supplies and materials to pack your belongings for all our moves. Save your time and enjoy an extremely pleasant move with us.
As well as people moving to a new place in inspiring films, you’ll also literally snap your fingers and get everything in your new home. Our professionals can accomplish a move of any complexity, so even an antique piano of your grandmother will be safely transported to a new place.
By providing in-person estimates to our customers, evaluating the scope of work, and planning all the stages in detail, we minimize the chances of any emergencies. This way, you have the complete plan and dates for your moving process, excluding any unpleasant surprises.
Our office movers in Altadena deliver top-level commercial moving services. We’ll cope with any office furniture, professional equipment, and even medical practice. Due to a professional approach to all stages of your office move, we help you not to lose excitement and inspiration from your new office in the overwhelming packing, lifting, and unpacking process.
Sure, our movers can bring packing materials and boxes if you need them. Make sure you mention that you need them to our operators in advance.
No, tips are not included, and it’s up to you how much to tip your movers. Tips are always appreciated but not required.
Your apartment moving cost depends on factors, such as the type and size of your property, the complexity of your move, the number of bedrooms, the volume of your items, zip code, etc. At SOS Moving, we offer flat and hourly rates. The hourly rate depends on the number of movers to be involved and the size of the moving truck. Flat rate is based on the volume of belongings you need to move, and it’s the best option for long-distance moves. To know your moving cost, please contact us or submit a form on our website to request your free quote.
You should schedule your move date as early as you can. If you’re moving locally, at least 1-2 weeks in advance, for long-distance moves, we recommend getting a quote at least 2-4 weeks before your move date.
You can choose any convenient day for your relocation, and yes, we can help you move on weekends and holidays.
A safe relocation is our goal, so we’ll provide you with a detailed list of items that are prohibited to transport. It includes perishables, hazardous materials, firearms, batteries, etc. We also don’t recommend packing your personal and irreplaceable items, including family heirlooms, family photos, jewelry, documents, etc. Carry them with you during the move.
We accept cash, all major debit and credit cards, and certified checks. We don’t accept personal checks. There will not apply any transaction fee on card transactions.
Yes, we’ll contact you prior to delivery. We’ll deliver your belongings within the given moving arrival window. In case the window is no longer possible, we’ll also contact you in advance and set another delivery time.
Altadena is unincorporated Los Angeles County land: 8.5 square miles just north of Pasadena, closed in on three sides by the Arroyo Seco, the Angeles National Forest and Eaton Canyon. The county's West San Gabriel Valley Area Plan describes it as largely single-family homes, and a significant share of its housing was built before 1979. For movers in Altadena, that usually means older floors and hallway turns sized for the furniture of another era. The crew runs floor protection from the front door to each room, pads the door frames and takes bed frames and tables apart before they meet a tight corner.
County planners also call Altadena rich in historic resources, from county landmarks and state and national listings to a pending historic district. In a house like that, banisters, built-ins and original trim are part of what is being protected, so they get wrapped and padded before the first piece of furniture comes through.
The Eaton Fire, which started on January 7, 2025, destroyed several thousand homes in Altadena, and rebuilding is still under way across the burn area. A rebuilt house is ready for furniture once the county issues its Certificate of Occupancy, the document confirming that all work is approved and the owner can move in. Set the moving date after the certificate is issued, not for the week the final inspection is expected. New floors and fresh paint get the same runners and door padding as an older house.
Some owners live on their own lot while they rebuild, in an RV, mobilehome or manufactured home allowed under a county Disaster Recovery Permit. For them, the last move of the rebuild can be the shortest one in Altadena: from the temporary unit to the new house a few steps away. The 3-hour minimum still applies, and the crew works around whatever the builder still has on site.
Many Altadena neighborhood roads have no sidewalks at all, and the county plan notes gaps even along Altadena Drive, Fair Oaks Avenue and Lincoln Avenue. The truck stands at the road edge, so the carry runs over a driveway, an unpaved edge or a lawn rather than a paved walk. The crew walks that path before the first load, keeps dollies on the firmest ground and lays runners inside the door so the dirt stays outside.
On a block with houses going up, the curb can fill early. County noise rules let construction start before 8AM on most days, and 8AM is when an SOS crew's day begins, so concrete trucks and deliveries may already hold the frontage when the moving truck pulls up. Ask the builder next door which days bring the big deliveries and choose another one if you can.
Before the day, we ask for four things: your own cars off the frontage, a note on slopes, gates and construction next door, an elevator reservation if the building has one, and a word with management about insurance. Multi-family buildings here stand near the commercial corridors: Lake Avenue, Altadena Drive, Fair Oaks Avenue, Lincoln Avenue and Washington Boulevard. If the building asks for a certificate of insurance, the COI is $50. Offices and shops, including the business park area along Woodbury Road, have their own page on office and retail moves in Altadena.
North of Loma Alta Drive, neighborhoods fall inside the Fire Hazard Severity Zones, and residents have reported parked cars blocking evacuation routes. A moving truck on those hillside streets has to leave the road open, so the parking spot is agreed with the client before the date, even when that means a longer carry up the driveway.
Santa Rosa Avenue between Woodbury Road and Altadena Drive is Christmas Tree Lane, a California Historical Landmark for the deodar cedars that the Woodbury family, Altadena's founders, planted along it in 1885. Trunks close to the curb decide where a truck can stop, so the crew parks in the gaps and carries around them. The lane's holiday lighting was first organized in 1920, and in December a morning start keeps the loading ahead of the visitors who come to see it.
Lake Avenue meets Altadena Drive at one of the crossings the county plan flags for wide lanes, big curb radii and fast traffic, and the plan names Altadena Drive and Mendocino Street among the collision hot spots. On those streets the crew loads from a driveway or a side street rather than setting the ramp out into moving traffic.
| Part of Altadena or type of home | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Hillside streets north of Loma Alta Drive | Fire-zone roads that double as evacuation routes; agree on a truck spot that leaves the road open |
| Santa Rosa Avenue (Christmas Tree Lane) | Deodar trunks along both curbs; park in the gaps; in December, start in the morning |
| Streets without sidewalks | Carry over a driveway, lawn or unpaved edge; runners at every door |
| Apartments near Lake Avenue, Altadena Drive, Fair Oaks, Lincoln and Washington | Fast arterials; load from a side street or driveway; COI if management asks |
| Rebuilt house in the burn area | Move after the Certificate of Occupancy; construction next door may hold the curb by 8AM |
| RV or manufactured home on the same lot | Short carry to the new house, same 3-hour minimum; clear a path through building materials |
Moving services in Altadena are billed by the hour, so the drive matters. Crews leave from 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, the only SOS base, and reach Altadena by I-710: about 15.7 miles, around 28 minutes without traffic, with the last stretch on Pasadena streets. An 8AM start puts that drive inside the morning rush, and a long day can end in the afternoon peak on the same streets.
For a local move from Altadena, two rules matter: the minimum is 3 hours, because the address sits well inside 30 miles of the base, and double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles. Crews work Monday – Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, and a same-day move is possible when a crew is free.
Pasadena starts at Altadena's southern edge, but it is an incorporated city with its own permits, so a move from an Altadena house to a Pasadena apartment changes rulebooks at the line; moving in Pasadena has its own page. La Crescenta–Montrose, farther west along the foothills, is one of the nine unincorporated communities in the same county area plan as Altadena, so a move between the two stays under county rules at both ends. Our page on moving in La Crescenta covers that side.
