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Our company offers full-service movers who are continuously trained to handle all types of moves - local, long-distance, or commercial - with top-level expertise. Our Hermosa Beach movers and packers use high-quality supplies and materials to protect your belongings every step of the way. Save time and enjoy an effortless, stress-free move with us!
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 Hermosa 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.
Nearly 20,000 people live in Hermosa Beach, a small city at the center of Los Angeles County's South Bay coastline, with Manhattan Beach to the north and Redondo Beach wrapped around its south and east sides. The drive is rarely the hard part of a move here. The hard part is the gap between the truck and the front door, and on many blocks city rules, not the house, decide how wide that gap is.
The walk streets are the clearest example. They run down to the Strand with no lane for cars, and the city's general plan describes how homes on them park: in tuck-under garages reached from the alleys behind. So the move happens at the back of the house. The crew carries through the alley to a truck on the nearest legal curb, and the living floors sit a flight or more above the garage.
The buildings are also older than the prices around them suggest. Hermosa's housing element counts more than half of the city's homes as built before 1970, and homes of that age tend to have narrow stairs, tight landings and doorways sized for smaller furniture. Our crews pad and wrap each piece before it leaves the room, cover floors and door frames, and take apart beds and tables that won't clear a landing in one piece.
For movers in Hermosa Beach, the residential permit area is the first thing to check. Everything from the Strand east to Loma Drive, Park Avenue or Morningside Drive falls inside it, and residents' permits exempt their cars from the one-hour limits on residential blocks there. A moving truck gets no such pass, and even a job at the 3-hour minimum outlasts a one-hour sign, so the curb has to be reserved.
Hermosa handles that with a moving van permit, a type of right-of-way permit issued by Public Works. Each permit covers one day, so a job that spills into a second day needs a second permit. The city requires 72 hours' notice, asks for the application one to two weeks before the work date, and provides No Parking/Tow Away signs and A-frames with the permit.
The permit also requires your Hermosa Beach moving company to carry liability insurance naming the City as additional insured. You file the application; SOS supplies the certificate of insurance, which costs $50. A condo association or property manager that wants its own certificate gets one the same way, so pass along the exact wording they ask for.
Sweeping signs still control the curb. The city says contractor permits are not valid during posted sweeping hours, and sweeping is suspended on city holidays, so we read the sign on your block before a date is locked in.
Size matters to the code as well. Hermosa counts any vehicle longer than 20 feet or wider than 7 feet as oversized and keeps it off public streets, with an exception for commercial vehicles making pickups and deliveries or serving a residence. A separate section caps commercial vehicles on residential streets at five hours unless the truck is working a property on that same block. So the truck parks on your block for the length of the job and pulls out once it is done.
Alleys look tempting but rarely work as parking. In alleys 15 feet wide or narrower, the code allows stopping only to load or unload, and the same chapter limits a commercial loading stop to 20 minutes. Yellow curbs carry that limit from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Sundays and holidays. Either will cover a short stop; neither will hold a truck through a move.
Narrow streets add one more check. Where the roadway is 20 feet wide or less, the city can post no parking on both sides, and on streets up to 30 feet wide it can post one side. If your block is posted, the truck goes to the nearest legal curb and the carry gets longer, which is worth settling before you pick a crew size.
The Strand is off-limits to motor vehicles, and so are Pier Plaza and the beach itself. A Strand-front move is planned from the landward side, since the truck can never reach the front door. City rules also bar leaving any wheeled device parked in front of a beach or property entrance on the Strand, or anywhere it blocks people walking, so dollies keep moving and hug the wall.
Hermosa Avenue runs the length of the city close to the sand, which makes it the natural approach to beach-side addresses and the street that hurts most when it closes. Fiesta Hermosa, the street fair held over Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends, has in recent editions shut Hermosa Avenue from 10th to 14th Street between 3 a.m. Saturday and 11 p.m. Monday, with reduced parking from 8th to 10th. If your address falls in that stretch, pick another weekend.
Around Pier Plaza, the code lets the city paint commercial loading zones anywhere in a business district, but those yellow curbs come with the same 20-minute limit. For an apartment near the plaza, the moving van permit, not a loading zone, is what holds the truck's spot for a full job.
East of Pacific Coast Highway, the city climbs toward its high ground, about 200 feet above sea level. Hermosa's code requires wheels turned into the curb for any vehicle left unattended on a grade steeper than 3 percent, so the truck gets curbed before the ramp comes down. A steep driveway or a long uphill carry is worth mentioning when you book, because it changes how many hands the job needs.
| Block or home type in Hermosa Beach | What to plan for on moving day |
|---|---|
| Walk-street home | No car lane out front and the garage opens to the alley; the truck waits at the nearest legal curb, so expect a long hand carry and stairs up from garage level. |
| Strand-front home | No motor vehicles on the Strand; plan from the landward side and keep dollies clear of entrances and people walking. |
| Downtown, near Pier Plaza and Hermosa Avenue | Yellow curbs allow 20 minutes from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Sundays and holidays; avoid Fiesta weekends between 10th and 14th Street. |
| Permit area, from the Strand to Loma Drive, Park Avenue or Morningside Drive | One-hour limits for cars without a resident permit; a one-day moving van permit from Public Works, with 72 hours' notice. |
| Streets east of Pacific Coast Highway | Grades rising toward about 200 feet; wheels curbed on slopes over 3 percent; longer uphill carries. |
| Narrow posted street | A roadway 20 feet wide or less can be no parking on both sides; plan the carry from the nearest legal curb. |
Every SOS crew starts from one place: our only office, at 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, which is also the base the trucks leave from. To Hermosa Beach the route is I-710 south, then SR-91 west, about 22 miles and around 34 minutes without traffic.
Traffic is what stretches that time. Westbound SR-91 and the streets feeding the coast slow down at weekday rush hours, and warm weekends pile beach traffic onto the same roads. Our window is 8AM – 6PM, Monday through Sunday. On Sundays and city holidays the yellow-curb loading limit doesn't apply, and sweeping pauses on city holidays, though meters are still enforced.
Hermosa is well inside 30 miles of the base, so the standard 3-hour minimum applies rather than the 4-hour minimum for farther addresses. Two more terms from the rates page apply here too: double drive time applies to moves over 10 miles, and overtime begins after 8 hours.
Within city limits, vehicles heavier than three tons are expected to stay on designated truck routes and leave them only by the direct way to a pickup or delivery. A loaded moving truck is over that weight, so the last turns go straight to your block instead of wandering through residential streets.
Our moving services in Hermosa Beach are built around those rules. For units in older buildings, our apartment movers plan around what the building actually has: one stairwell, a shared hall, a garage door on the alley. Tell us the floor, the number of flights and whether the unit opens to the street or the alley, and the crew size follows from that.
Stairs above a tuck-under garage are where heavy pieces get expensive. Piano moves require a four-person crew and carry a $200 fee, and items over 300 lbs add $150 with a crew of three. Measure the tightest turn on the stairs before booking, because it decides whether a piece can go up at all.
A same-day move is possible whenever a crew is free, but Hermosa's permit clock runs longer: the moving van permit needs 72 hours' notice. A same-day job inside the permit area has to work from whatever legal curb or driveway is open that day, which suits smaller loads.
Portable storage containers need their own city permit here, good for 14 days. If giving up a stretch of curb for two weeks doesn't appeal, storage with SOS keeps your things off the street; overnight storage costs $200.
Pacific Coast Highway changes its name at the north city line and becomes Sepulveda Boulevard in Manhattan Beach. A move between the two cities is short, so loading and carrying, not the drive, set most of the bill; our Manhattan Beach moving page covers that side of the line.
Redondo Beach borders Hermosa on two sides, south and east, so an address a few blocks away can sit in another city with its own parking rules. Before a cross-line move, read up on moving in Redondo Beach for how things work there.
Route 1 keeps going through Redondo Beach into Torrance, which makes PCH the direct line for moves between the beach and Torrance. Our Torrance moving page picks up from there.
