Healthcare & Medical

Optometry Office Moving in Boston and MetroWest

The optical side moved by our crew: frame boards, display cases, dispensing tables, and the front desk. Exam lanes and imaging go with your equipment dealer.

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Planning a Optometry Office Move

An optometry practice is a medical office with a store in front. The back has exam lanes, pretesting, and imaging, each an expensive set of instruments on a stand or table that your equipment dealer installs and aligns. The front is retail: frame boards on every wall, glass display cases, dispensing tables where patients try on frames, and often a small lab bench with an edger. The two halves move in different ways.

The exam lanes are the dealer's. Chair-and-stand combinations, phoropters, slit lamps, lane charts, retinal cameras, and other imaging are taken down and reinstalled by the dealer's technicians. Our crew moves the optical side and everything else: frame boards and displays, dispensing furniture, the front desk, contact lens storage, offices, and the break room. Your optical staff pull frames off the boards into trays by board, so each wall goes back up the way patients and staff expect. Frames are inventory, so your staff count them in and out. The healthcare split between equipment and furniture is on our healthcare moving page.

Who usually signs off: Practice owner or optical manager who approves the frame inventory plan and coordinates the exam-lane equipment vendor
Timing that works: Saturday evening or Sunday on request, once the equipment dealer has dates to take down the exam lanes and set them at the new office.

What typically moves

Frame boards, frame bars, and slatwall displays Frames pulled into trays by your staff, board by board; the empty boards are padded and tagged to their wall.
Glass display cases and sunglass towers Glass shelves removed and wrapped separately; cases moved upright and set where the plan shows.
Dispensing tables, mirrors, and patient chairs Wrapped and set in the optical area, with mirrors boxed or crated flat.
Contact lens trial sets and storage drawers Drawers packed by your staff and moved with the cabinet they came from.
Front desk, waiting room seating, and check-out counter Set early, so patients can check in on reopening.
Doctors' offices and staff break room Labeled for each doctor and carried in once patients' rooms are finished.

Access and scheduling

Get the dealer's dates first. The exam lanes and imaging usually need a technician to take them down at the end of the last clinic day and a day or two to reinstall and align at the new office. We fit around that: optical and front-of-office on a Saturday or Sunday, on request, while the dealer handles the lanes.

A storefront optical shop gives the crew a front door, a sidewalk, and maybe a loading zone out back; the question is how close the truck can park and whether frame boards fit through the door without coming off their brackets. Where the practice is upstairs in a medical building, the elevator is reserved in advance, and the building expects our insurance paperwork first, which we send on request.

Protection and handling

Optical displays are mostly glass and mirror. Each glass shelf lifts out and gets its own sleeve and carton, mirrors travel in mirror cartons or on edge, and display cases move upright on padded dollies. Frame boards are padded and moved with their mounting hardware bagged.

Frames are small, valuable, and counted, so your staff handle them. They pull frames off each board into labeled trays, count them, and seal the trays; we carry the trays and never open them. Anything with patient information, including paper records or prescription files, stays with your staff. Front desk and pretesting screens are unhooked and set back up at their stations; practice software and imaging connections belong to your IT contact and the dealer.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Exam lanes, chairs and stands, phoropters, slit lamps, and lane charts: Your ophthalmic equipment dealer takes them down, moves them, reinstalls them, and aligns them at the new office.
Retinal cameras, OCT, visual field, and other imaging: The dealer or manufacturer's technician handles them, including any calibration.
In-office lens edger and lab equipment: The lab equipment vendor disconnects, moves, and sets it up, including any water connection.

Not part of our work

Taking down, moving, or aligning exam lanes or imaging equipment.
Counting or packing frame inventory.

Around Boston and MetroWest

Eye care in this area is often retail-facing: storefronts on the main streets of Wellesley, Needham, Newton Centre, and Franklin, and plaza suites off Route 9 and Route 1 where patients park at the door. Practices in Brookline, Boston, and near Longwood more often sit upstairs in medical buildings.

The crew that shows up

Two Eastside Movers crew members outside a client's red front door

Optometry Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (774) 421-9389.

Should our frames be counted before or after the optometry office moves?

Both, and by your staff. Pull frames off each board into labeled trays, count them, and seal the trays. We carry the trays to the new optical area. Your staff unpack and count again as frames go back on the boards, which gives you a clean inventory for the new office.

Who moves our exam lanes and imaging equipment?

Your ophthalmic equipment dealer. Exam lane chairs, stands, phoropters, slit lamps, and imaging have to be taken down, reinstalled, and aligned by a technician. Our crew works the optical floor and offices on the dealer's timetable and leaves exam rooms empty for its technicians.

Can the optical shop open before the exam rooms are ready?

Yes, and many practices prefer that. The optical area, front desk, and dispensing tables can be set and ready for frame pickups and adjustments while the dealer is still installing exam lanes. Tell us the order you want, and we set the front of the office first.

Can mirrors and glass display cases survive the move?

They can, with the right packing. Glass shelves come out and are wrapped and boxed separately, mirrors go in mirror cartons or on edge, and cases travel upright on padded dollies. Very large or heavy mirrors can be crated if needed.

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