Trade School Moving in St. Johns County and Jacksonville

Put every program’s cohort dates on one calendar, then move shop by shop in the gaps. A welding shop may move one week and the HVAC lab two weeks later, while classrooms and offices fill in around them.

The equipment mover and our crew should not share a doorway at the same hour. Shops often have one roll-up door, so we agree the order in advance: trades disconnect machines, the equipment mover takes heavy pieces out, and we load benches and panels after. At the new building the order reverses, with heavy machines placed and anchored first so benches can go around them. The landlord may also want a certificate listing them as insured before either crew arrives, which we send ahead.

Instructors own their tools. Hand tools, meters, and small power tools are counted and packed by instructors, because the crib count is the school’s record of which tools each class signs out. We move the sealed boxes and the locked chests as a set.

Shop floors are usually bare concrete, so the concern is less the floor and more the load: benches with vises fitted, heavy trainer panels, and steel lockers are strapped upright and padded against each other in the truck. Consumables such as welding rod, refrigerant training cylinders, and shop chemicals are handled by instructors and suppliers under their own rules, and compressed gas stays with the gas supplier. At the new shop, benches and trainer panels are placed to the instructor’s layout, with the clearances around machines that the equipment mover and the program lead mark on the floor plan.