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Why choose SOS Moving?
Just like in those inspiring movies, you’ll feel like you’ve snapped your fingers and everything is ready in your new home. Our skilled professionals can handle moves of any complexity - even safely transporting your grandmother’s antique piano to its new place!
We provide in-person estimates, assess the scope of work, and carefully plan every stage of your move to avoid unexpected issues. With our detailed approach, you’ll have a clear plan and timeline, ensuring a smooth move with no unpleasant surprises!
Our office movers in Fountain Valley 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.
Fountain Valley is an Orange County city on the west side of the Santa Ana River, incorporated in 1957 and built out mostly during the 1960s under a master plan that favored single-family streets. The housing figures still read that way: roughly three homes in four are single-family, and nearly four in five went up in the 1960s or 1970s. Almost the whole city is flat, so the effort on a typical house here goes into the rooms, not into outdoor stairs.
That sets the crew's routine. Runners go down from the front door to the curb, door frames get padded, and beds, dining tables and sectionals come apart before they meet a hallway that has stood for half a century. With no hillside to climb, the hours go into wrapping and careful carrying.
The multifamily housing is mixed in with the single-family areas, and the city's plan placed it close to arterial roads and commercial centers. About one home in ten is an attached townhome, and nearly one in five sits in a building of five units or more. In those complexes the truck spot, elevator time and move hours come from management; the resident books them, and the crew plans the carry from the spot it is given.
Fountain Valley also has a sizable stock of senior housing. The city's housing plan lists several senior apartment and condo developments, among them The Jasmine and The Liberty at Founders Village, plus Rancho La Siesta, a senior mobile home park. Settle what fits the new floor plan before packing day, and ask the community office where a truck may stop.
Fountain Valley keeps big vehicles off its streets. Municipal code section 10.44.250 bans stopping, standing or parking anything wider than 84 inches, longer than 22 feet or heavier than 10,000 pounds on any city street, and a full-size moving truck crosses at least one of those lines. The same section exempts a vehicle that is moving items to or from a location, and in residential zones it keeps that stop in front of the home being loaded, or as close to it as the street allows.
For a Fountain Valley moving company, that rule is the parking plan: the truck belongs at your frontage for the length of the job, and the curb in front of the house should be clear when it pulls up. Put the family cars in the garage or driveway the evening before, and tell the neighbors a truck will be out front for part of the day.
Street sweeping is the second check. Cars left on the street during a scheduled sweep get cited, and each neighborhood's sweeping day is posted on the first street light pole at its entrance. If the move falls on that day, mention it when you book so the parking plan accounts for the sweeper.
Condos and townhomes add paperwork. If the association asks for a certificate of insurance, SOS issues one for $50; pass along the exact wording the manager needs. Reserving the elevator, the loading area or gate access is on the resident, and the crew works inside whatever move window the association sets.
With no hills to speak of, what shapes moving services in Fountain Valley is building type and who controls the curb. Mile Square Regional Park, a county park on Euclid Street with a city-run section along Brookhurst Street, takes up a large block in the north-central part of town.
| Area or home type in Fountain Valley | What to plan for on move day |
|---|---|
| Single-family tract streets, most built in the 1960s and 1970s | Truck at your own frontage under FVMC 10.44.250; family cars off the curb; sweeping day checked on the first light pole of the tract |
| Apartments and condos near the arterials and shopping centers | Truck spot and elevator time set by management; certificate of insurance for $50 if the association asks |
| Senior communities such as Founders Village and Rancho La Siesta | Ask the community office where the truck stops and which hours allow moves |
| Office and light-industrial blocks between Talbert Avenue, Ellis Avenue, Ward Street and the Santa Ana River | Loading on site, not in the street; dock or loading space booked with the property manager |
Trucks leave the SOS base on Jillson Street in Los Angeles and run I-5 → I-605 → I-405, about 27.9 miles and around 36 minutes without traffic. The last leg is freeway that OCTA widened: its I-405 Improvement Project added a regular lane in each direction between Euclid Street in Fountain Valley and the 605, and toll express lanes now run from the 605 down to SR-73.
Traffic, not distance, is the variable. The 605 and the 405 both thicken with commuters in the morning and again from mid-afternoon, so an early job means a slower run down and a late finish meets the same crawl heading back. Work runs inside the 8AM – 6PM window, Monday through Sunday, and a weekend date usually takes the commute out of the picture.
Fountain Valley sits inside the 30-mile line, so the minimum is 3 hours rather than the 4 that farther addresses carry. Double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles, and overtime begins after 8 hours.
Fountain Valley is also a business address, home to headquarters such as Hyundai Motor America and Kingston Technology, with most of its industrial and office land on the east side along the Santa Ana River. The zoning code expects loading to happen on site rather than in the public street, so office movers in Fountain Valley start with the property manager and book the dock or loading space and the elevator before the date. SOS runs commercial and office moves in the same 8AM – 6PM window seven days a week, and a Saturday or Sunday move leaves the workweek alone.
After the unpack, the city helps with what is left. Its 10/4 program with Republic Services lets residents schedule up to four large-item pickups a year, ten items each, and moving boxes and shipping cartons that overflow the recycling cart are on the accepted list along with furniture and mattresses. Water is a city utility here, so the account change goes through the city's utility billing office rather than a private water company. If you would rather hand off the boxing, our packing service does the wrapping too.
The neighbors each have their own logic. Huntington Beach wraps around Fountain Valley's south and west sides, so a move between the two usually stays on surface streets. Westminster borders the city on the north and sits on the same widened stretch of the 405 the truck uses to get here. Costa Mesa begins across the Santa Ana River to the southeast, a short run farther down the 405.
