Moving Tips and Advice

Did you know? This summer has seen quite the home sales boom for the greater Washington DC metropolitan area; recent data from RealEstate Business Intelligence (a subsidiary of MRIS) revealed a marked year-over-year increase (13 percent!) in home sales. With more than 5600 homes bought and sold in June of this year, it’s clear to see the housing market has rebounded, and is stronger than ever. Just look at the stats: 13 percent increase in area home sales over June 2014; seven straight m

It was a day years in the making, one Prince William County residents (not to mention all those thousands of northern Virginians who traveled from the outer suburbs in the direction of Washington DC and back again) had long anticipated. On Thursday, July 9, a ceremonial ribbon cutting marked this momentous occasion. With but a few finishing touches that remain, the Route 29 and Linton Hall Road interchange project in Gainesville is complete. The $230 million project successfully eliminated

Welcome to the neighborhood! Over the last eight decades, the professional movers at Craig Van Lines have been helping people move in, out, and around northern Virginia. It’s what the Craig family loves, and it’s what we do. So much that we know about the residential moving business, we also know that our job doesn’t end when the last piece of furniture is carried from the moving truck. (Did you know Craig Van Lines offers storage services to customers in northern Virginia? It’s tr

Filing cabinets: Chances are your northern Virginia commercial office has at least a few. And sometimes, they have to be moved. Whether to a new office, or just out of the way for a chance to clean and dust, when filing cabinets have to be moved, certain precautions have to be taken. Consider these tips for moving filing cabinets: Moving Upright File Cabinets File cabinets that stand upright are the easier to move; all you, or the professional commercial movers you’ve hired need is a dolly and

Trade show season is nearly upon here in northern Virginia, and around the country. As you make your plans to send your staff off to Las Vegas, or Orlando, or anywhere in between, you’re also making plans to send your stuff. The process of getting your booth, supplies, and collateral from point A to point B seems fairly simple, but it’s actually far more complex than you even realize. Often referred to in trade show circles as ‘material handling and drayage’, this highly coordinated e

I’ve moved. You’re planning a move. Everybody moves at least a few times in their lives, right? Have you ever wondered just how many people move each year? There for a while, over the last decade, few people moved, because they couldn’t afford to. Now it seems the pendulum is swinging back, and as northern Virginia’s go-to residential moving company, we couldn’t be more excited about it. Americans are moving again. The following excerpt was originally published by USA Tod

That’s quite the impressive wine collection you have there. A collection like that took many years (not to mention lots of money) to build, and as such, it’s not just a bunch of bottles you’ll want to haphazardly toss in the backseat of your car, or in boxes left for the movers. No, you’ll want to take care to ensure that no damage comes to your wine collection when you move, and Craig Van Lines wants to help. Consider these tips for relocating with a wine collection. 1. Call an a

Montebello Condominiums — a gated condominium community in a natural woodland setting, where Alexandria meets I-95 — recently found themselves in need of assistance with a pretty sizable storage project. Here's what Montebello's Facilities Program Manager Peter Ng had to say: "Basically, we’re replacing all the sprinkler piping, down in the garage of our building that’s got three levels. They’re 30 years old. Over that time, problems developed: Some of the piping was rusting from

Driven south on 29 into Gainesville recently? (And by recently, I mean any time in the last four years.) If you have, chances are good you've been caught up in traffic, and road construction, and wondered: What are they doing, and will they ever be finished? The Gainesville / I-66 Improvements project, now in its fourth and final phase, began construction, and is scheduled for completion sometime this summer. So, we're happy to report: Yes. They will ever be finished. So says Virginia Departmen

Fredericksburg is moving up in the world! Or, well, the world is moving into Fredericksburg. According to data compiled by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the city of Fredericksburg is, and has been for the last four years, the fastest growing municipality in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Its population increased 16.2 percent between the April 2010 census and July 1, 2014. A total of nearly four thousand people moved to Fredericksburg in 2014 alone,