Brazos Valley to Houston, loaded Friday and unloaded Saturday
Houston is the move we make most often. Graduates taking a first job in the Energy Corridor, families trading a College Station cul-de-sac for a house in Katy or Pearland, professors heading to the Medical Center, small firms opening a second office off the Sam Houston Parkway — that stretch of Highway 290 and the 6 is familiar ground for our crews. We load in the Brazos Valley, drive it ourselves, and unload at the other end. No swapping your belongings onto a stranger's truck at a warehouse in between.
Because Houston is a long-distance move rather than a cross-town shuffle, the details matter more. A high-rise in Midtown needs a certificate of insurance and a reserved freight elevator. A house inside the Loop may have a narrow driveway and a street that won't take a large truck. A suburban build in Cypress might not have a street name in the GPS yet. We ask about all of that before moving day, not when the crew is already standing on your sidewalk.
Student moves, piano hauls and office relocations on the Houston run
Not every Houston job looks the same, so here is what we actually get asked to do on this route and what each one involves.
- Household moves to Houston — Full-home packing, wrapping and loading, then a direct drive and placement of furniture in the rooms you point to. Beds reassembled so you have somewhere to sleep on night one.
- Student and graduate moves — Dorm, apartment and duplex loads from College Station and Bryan to Houston apartments. Right-sized crews so a one-bedroom doesn't get charged like a four-bedroom.
- Office relocation — Desks, chairs, filing and conference furniture broken down, labeled by department and rebuilt in your new Houston floor plan so staff can plug in and work the next morning.
- Commercial and retail moves — Shop fixtures, display cases, inventory shelving and heavy equipment moved with dollies, straps and padding, sequenced so your closed days are kept to a minimum.
- Piano and specialty items — Uprights, baby grands, gun safes, antique armoires and glass-top tables get the extra hands, boards and padding they need instead of being wrestled by two people.
- Loading and unloading only — If you've rented a truck or booked a container for Houston, we'll do the heavy, high-risk part: stacking the load so it travels tight and arrives in one piece.
- Packing and unpacking — Kitchens, closets, garages and offices boxed with proper materials and clear labels, with unpacking at the Houston end if you'd rather not face a wall of cartons.
- Storage-in-transit handling — Moves where the Houston closing date slips are common; we'll coordinate loading into or out of a storage unit so you're not paying for a truck to sit still.
How we price and plan a long-distance Houston move
Long-distance work is quoted on the size of the move and the labor and driving it takes, not on a vague hourly guess that balloons at the end. Tell us the number of bedrooms or square feet of office, the stairs and elevators at both ends, anything oversized, and whether you want packing included. We'll put a figure to it and tell you what would change it. If something turns up on moving day that we didn't know about — a second storage unit, a shed nobody mentioned — we talk to you about it before we touch it.
Two things are worth sorting early for Houston. First, building rules: many apartment complexes and office towers require a certificate of insurance on file and a booked elevator window, and those can take a few business days to arrange. Second, parking. If the truck can't get within reach of your door, the crew carries farther, and that affects both the time and the cost. Send us a photo of the street and the entrance and we'll tell you what to expect.
We'd rather spend ten minutes on the phone asking awkward questions about stairs and parking than have the crew find out the hard way in Houston.
Questions Houston customers ask us before they book
Houston is one of two dozen places we run to. We also move households and businesses across Bryan, College Station, Navasota, Brenham, Caldwell, Madisonville, Hearne, Somerville, Rockdale and the smaller communities in between, plus Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. See all 24 service areas for the full list.
If you're moving to or from Houston, the best next step is a short conversation about dates, access and what you're bringing. Owner Wailan Watson and the Aggie Movers Company crew will give you a straight answer on what the job takes. Call (979) 764-2928 to talk through your Houston move and get a quote.