Office Furniture Installation Blog

A business move isn’t over when your office furniture is successfully moved from point A to point B. Naturally, each item needs to be properly, professionally and safely installed as well.

To achieve this key goal, here are 7 factors to help you choose the right office furniture installation company – and steer clear of the wrong ones:  

1. Experience

There is no substitute for experience when it comes to installing office furniture – especially if the items being installed are older, or have been customized to fit spacing needs or work requirements.  

When it comes to reconfiguring your current office or moving to a new location, partnering with a proven, reputable and experienced office furniture installation team is one of the smartest and safest decisions you can make.

To point you in that direction, below we highlight 8 things that an office furniture company can do for you:

1. Help you plan and organize all installations for both new and/or used furniture from a variety of manufacturers, including (but not limited to) HON/Allsteel, Haworth, Herman Miller, Kimball, Knoll, Steelcase, Teckinon, Trendway, and several others. They will also help with reinstallations for discontinued items – even if the manufacturer has since gone out of business.

As noted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology. 

As a business owner or executive, the last thing you want is the phrase “dangerous disaster” used to describe anything that could possibly happen to your organization.

However, despite your best intentions and efforts, that’s precisely the direction you’ll head if you make any of these 3 major mistakes when it comes to office furniture installation:

1. Assign it to your employees

Most workplaces have at least one handyman or handywoman “guru” who has demonstrated their prowess in the past – perhaps by fixing a colleague’s wobbly chair or workstation. However, as competent as these folks may be, they are NOT capable of installing office furniture.

When it comes to choosing a team to handle your office furniture installation needs, naturally you want a mix of professionalism, service, performance and value.

However, there’s another piece of the puzzle that, in some ways, is even more important than any other -- because it will directly determine whether your office relocation is successful or stressful: experience.

To help you avoid that nightmare, below we highlight 3 costly mistakes made by inexperienced office furniture installers: 

When it comes to residential moves, most people are familiar with the process of hiring a moving company that (hopefully!) shows up on time, packs and picks up boxes and furniture, transports them to their new destination, unloads/unpacks, and that’s pretty much it. This isn’t to say that it’s not sophisticated or multi-step process – because it’s both. However, there’s typically just one type of professional involved: the movers themselves.

However, when the scene shifts to an office move, the situation is categorically different – and far more complex. That’s why businesses need to ensure that they have not one, but six different types of professionals on their office moving team. These include:

As a professional facility manager, you know better than anyone that the scope of your job is comprehensive, and involves MUCH more than “managing the facility”. 

Indeed, much like a project manager is everything from strategic visionary to motivational coach, your skills and talents run the gamut from everyday management of all maintenance employees, to providing leadership with direction, and the list goes on. No two days are ever the same; heck, no two hours are ever the same! 

Of course, as competent and hard working as you are, you know that tapping into your carefully cultivated network of experts is both wise and necessary to achieve your many objectives, fulfill your enormous (and ever-increasing!) mandate, and solve/avoid problems. And without question, professional office furniture installers need to be part of your inner circle, and just a call or email away.

When it comes to residential moves, schedule overruns are obviously irritating and inconvenient. However, generally speaking, the worst case scenario for most homeowners is they may have to spend a night or two in a nearby hotel (which would actually be a treat for kids, and maybe even grown-ups…did someone say room service and Jacuzzi?)

However, when the scene shifts to an office relocation, schedule overruns are far more than inconvenient – and there are no mitigating factors or unexpected bonuses. It’s a complete disaster, and the costs keep adding up hour after hour.

A key piece of your office relocation puzzle will involve creating a plan that sets actionable expectations with a furniture installer.

One of the most important questions you need to ask a prospective office furniture installer is: how will you handle moves, adds and changes? (which in the industry is typically referred to by the acronym “MAC”).