Commercial moving covers everything a business owns that isn't a desk: retail fixtures and inventory, warehouse racking and stock, clinic equipment, restaurant gear, showroom pieces. Each type has its own handling rules, its own insurance considerations, and its own version of "we cannot be closed tomorrow." Discount Moving & Storage plans Ottawa commercial moves as projects, with a written scope, a schedule built around your operations, and one accountable lead.
If your move is a standard office, our office moving service is the specialist page. This one is for everything else a business needs moved — and for multi-site projects where several locations change at once.
Retail, warehouse, and specialty commercial moves
Retail moves are choreographed around trading hours and fit-out schedules: fixtures out after close, inventory transferred in a sequence that matches the new store's setup order, and the old space emptied to lease standard. Warehouse relocations add racking disassembly and reassembly, palletized stock handling, and phased moves that keep part of the operation running while the rest transfers.
Clinics, studios, and restaurants each bring sensitive equipment — treatment tables, sound gear, commercial kitchen pieces — that gets individually assessed at the walkthrough and handled as specialty items, the same discipline we apply to pianos in homes. If equipment needs a manufacturer's own technician for disconnect/reconnect, we coordinate the move around their schedule.
Multi-site and phased commercial projects
Growing businesses rarely move in one clean jump. A head office consolidates two locations; a retailer closes one store into another; a warehouse expands next door while fulfillment continues. Phased projects need a mover who thinks in waves: what's live, what's moving, what's stored temporarily in between. Our storage absorbs the overflow between phases, under the same project inventory.
Every phase is quoted and scheduled in the project plan, with a single point of contact on our side. Changes — and commercial projects always have one — are absorbed by the plan rather than renegotiated from zero.