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Why choose SOS Moving?
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 Huntington Beach 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.
Huntington Beach, on the Orange County coast, is a city of housing tracts, so much so that the city posts its street-sweeping signs at tract entrances rather than on each block. For movers in Huntington Beach, the houses inside those tracts are rarely the hard part. Three places are different enough to need their own plan: the Huntington Harbour islands, gated Seacliff and the old beach strip of Sunset Beach.
Huntington Harbour was dredged out of the former Sunset Bay wetlands starting in 1963. Its five man-made islands, Admiralty, Davenport, Gilbert, Humboldt and Trinidad, are lined with homes built mostly between the 1960s and the late 1970s, and on Admiralty nearly every lot is on the water. A waterfront house has exactly one side a truck can reach. So every dresser and sectional travels from the street door through the house or down a side yard, and the crew pads door frames and lays floor runners along that whole path before the first piece moves.
Homes in the Harbour run three to six bedrooms, which on moving day means more boxes than furniture. With professional packing booked for a house that size, the boxes are filled and labeled by people who pack for a living, and the loading crew can spend its hours carrying.
Seacliff, around Palm Avenue and Goldenwest Street, is the opposite case: the carry is ordinary, the entrance is not. Most Seacliff homes sit inside gated communities, many with a guard at the entrance, such as Seacliff on the Greens and Ocean Colony, and gated streets are private streets. Before moving day the client adds the moving company to the gate list for the date and asks the HOA or its management company for any rules on truck hours and parking, in writing.
Sunset Beach is the third case. It was an unincorporated county community until Huntington Beach annexed it in August 2011, and it runs about a mile along Pacific Coast Highway while measuring roughly three blocks across. That shape keeps every address within a couple of blocks of PCH, and since the annexation the city's rules on street sweeping and storage containers apply there the same as anywhere else in town.
Huntington Beach sweeps every street twice a month, and enforcement runs rain or shine. Because the no-parking signs usually stand at the tract entrance and mid-block signs are not required, a block with no sign in front of the house can still be a sweeping block. Check the address on the city's Surf City Services Map before choosing a date. If the sweep does land on moving day, the city lets vehicles return to the curb once the sweeper and the enforcement car have passed, and the crew's parking plan is built around that window.
Holidays work in a mover's favor. On the holidays the city lists, sweepers stay off the streets and sweeping enforcement stops, and a skipped street simply waits for its next regular day.
The city also runs 19 residential permit parking districts, set up to keep commuter cars off neighborhood streets. Permits go only to homes on the restricted streets, up to four vehicle permits and two guest passes per address. The municipal code exempts a vehicle that is loading or unloading property, so the moving truck can work under a permit sign, while a friend's car helping with the move cannot unless it carries one of those guest passes.
Another rule in the same parking code lets a commercial vehicle that is loading or unloading back up to the curb instead of parking parallel, as long as it stays short of the centerline and does not block traffic. Whether a backed-in truck fits depends on the width of the street, so that is a call the crew makes at the curb.
Portable storage containers have their own rules. A POD can sit on a driveway without a street permit as long as it stays off the sidewalk. On the street it needs a city permit, must be eight feet wide or less, may stay no more than seven days and has to occupy a legal parking space at the curb in front of the permit holder's home, never across a driveway, bus stop, curb ramp, hydrant, colored curb or crosswalk. When a week is too short or the curb is too crowded, storage with SOS keeps the load off the street altogether.
Utilities follow a city pattern too. Water in Huntington Beach comes from the city itself, billed on a Municipal Service Bill that also covers trash and sewer, so starting or stopping service is a call to the Finance Department's Municipal Services Billing section. A same-day start costs extra, and a move within town can get the new account's deposit waived if you already have city service at another address with no more than one late payment in the past year.
Downtown has a weekly closure that is easy to miss when you pick a date. Every Tuesday, Surf City Nights takes over Main Street between Pacific Coast Highway and Orange Avenue, plus 5th Street and parts of Walnut and Olive avenues, and the permit the city approved for the street fair, which started in 2008, covers a street closure from 2 PM to 10 PM for setup and teardown. If the address is near Main, book Tuesday as a morning job or pick another day, because the barricades do not wait for a half-loaded truck.
The Fourth of July closes much more. The parade runs along PCH from 9th Street to Main and then up Main Street past Yorktown Avenue; PCH between Goldenwest Street and Beach Boulevard and Main Street up to Gothard close from 5 AM, and the first blocks of Main stay shut into the afternoon of July 5. Nobody moves a household through downtown that morning, so an address anywhere near the route needs a different date.
Then comes the Pacific Airshow, a fall weekend that packs the beach. The city's plan for it puts staging equipment on Main Street between Walnut Avenue and PCH and opens an extra lane on southbound PCH near Beach Boulevard just to empty the beach parking lots. Downtown and Sunset Beach moves on airshow weekend are worth a second look at the calendar.
Beach Boulevard and Edinger Avenue are where the city steered new housing. The Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan, adopted in 2010, opened the corridors to residential and mixed-use development with a town center around the Beach and Edinger intersection, and a 2015 amendment required new residential projects there to put shops at street level. Homes stacked over retail come with garages, elevators and a management office that writes the rules for moving day.
For those buildings the client reserves the elevator and the loading area, confirms the hours the building allows moves and asks whether a certificate of insurance is required; SOS provides a COI for $50. The apartment moving crew pads the elevator and protects the corridor floors on the way out. Settle the truck spot with management ahead of time, because Beach Boulevard itself is State Route 39, a state highway maintained by Caltrans, not a quiet side street.
| Area or home type in Huntington Beach | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Huntington Harbour islands: Admiralty, Davenport, Gilbert, Humboldt, Trinidad | Waterfront lots with one street side; expect a long carry through the house or a side yard, with floors and door frames protected the whole way. |
| Guard-gated Seacliff communities near Palm Avenue and Goldenwest Street | The moving company on the gate list for the date; HOA truck hours and parking rules in writing before the day. |
| Downtown blocks around Main Street and 5th Street | Surf City Nights closure on Tuesdays from 2 PM; parade closures from 5 AM on the Fourth of July; airshow crowds in the fall. |
| Sunset Beach along Pacific Coast Highway | Every address a couple of blocks from PCH; city sweeping and POD rules apply since the 2011 annexation. |
| Apartment buildings on Beach Boulevard and Edinger Avenue | Elevator and loading area reserved with management; a COI if the building asks; the truck spot agreed ahead, because Beach Boulevard is SR-39. |
| Tract streets inside one of the 19 permit parking districts | The truck is exempt while loading; helpers' cars need one of the two guest passes. |
Hiring a Huntington Beach moving company that drives down from Los Angeles means the drive is part of the plan. SOS crews leave from one base, 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, and take I-5 → I-605 → I-405, about 28.4 miles and around 39 minutes without traffic. The last stretch is the 405 past Seal Beach and Westminster, the freeway where OCTA's I-405 Improvement Project added a regular lane in each direction between I-605 and Euclid Street in Fountain Valley and built the tolled 405 Express Lanes.
Rush hours are what stretch those 39 minutes. The 605 and the 405 carry heavy commuter traffic on weekday mornings and late afternoons, and SOS works Monday – Sunday, 8AM – 6PM, so a morning job in Huntington Beach starts with a drive south in the morning commute and a long day ends with the drive north in the evening one. Weekends are usually lighter. The rates page puts it plainly: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles.
Huntington Beach sits right around the 30-mile line from the base, so the minimum here is 3 or 4 hours, depending on the address: 3 hours inside 30 miles, 4 hours beyond. Give the full street address when you call 909-443-0004, and the minimum is settled before the date is booked.
The 405 runs through Westminster on the way in, and since Westminster also borders the city on the north, a move between the two can stay on Beach Boulevard or Goldenwest Street without touching the freeway. Fountain Valley borders Huntington Beach on the northeast, and Euclid Street there marks the end of the lanes OCTA added to the 405. To the east, across the Santa Ana River, Costa Mesa sits at the far end of the 405 Express Lanes, where they meet SR-73.
