Round Rock Dell Family Upsize

The engineer called us on a Monday in early May 2026. The Brushy Creek closing was scheduled for July 18. The Forest Creek home was already under contract with an August 1 closing.

Same-day quote. Our estimator did a virtual walkthrough via FaceTime (the engineer had pre-recorded a room-by-room tour). Written estimate by 4pm the same day. Standard 4-mover crew, 5-6 hour move, Saturday window.

Specialty handling identified: - Pool table. A slate billiards in the Forest Creek game-room — needs slate disassembly + reassembly at destination. - Gun safe. A 1,800-lb Fort Knox safe in the basement workshop — needs specialty rigging. - Children's bedroom furniture — three sets to transfer.

No HOA pre-clearance at Forest Creek (Forest Creek's HOA doesn't require vendor pre-clearance). Brushy Creek HOA does require it — vendor list + COI. We filed both 48 hours ahead.

Date locked: Saturday July 18. Closing day at Brushy Creek.

7:00am crew arrival at Forest Creek. 4-mover crew + crew lead. Standard residential move-out protocol.

8:00am-11:30am: load. Standard family-house pack-out. Bedrooms loaded first (smaller items, easier to access). Living room + dining room next. The pool table disassembly happened in parallel — one crew member specialized in pool tables handled the slate disassembly while the rest of the crew loaded.

11:30am-12:30pm: lunch break. The engineer's wife brought pizza for the crew.

12:30pm-2:00pm: kitchen + remaining items. Kitchen packed last (the family was using it through Saturday morning breakfast). Final walk-through of the home with the crew lead.

2:00pm: depart Forest Creek for Brushy Creek. ~3 mile drive across Round Rock.

2:30pm: arrive at Brushy Creek. Gate clearance ready. HOA pre-approval confirmed. COI on file at the property management office.

3:00pm-7:00pm: unload + placement. Crew unloaded into the new home. Item-by-item placement based on the family's floor plan. Bedroom sets reassembled. Bed frames built. Pool table re-installed in the new game-room (slate releveled, felt re-tightened).

The 1,800-lb gun safe required specialty rigging. Different crew composition than the household crew. Scheduled as a Friday morning follow-up (July 17 — the day before the main move).

Friday morning: specialty rigging crew arrived at Forest Creek. Removed the safe doors (~400 lbs lighter without). Used a heavy-duty rigging dolly. Transferred to the destination Brushy Creek basement workshop. Reattached the doors after placement.

Total Friday work: 3 hours. Safe placed before the main move. The engineer didn't have to coordinate anything beyond the doors-locked, doors-unlocked moments.

Why split into two crews? Gun safe rigging is specialty work. The household movers don't do it; the rigging crew doesn't do family-residential. Each does its thing best.

Family settled in over the weekend. Children unpacked their own rooms (they're old enough to enjoy the moving-in process). Wife organized the new master suite. Engineer set up his new home-office.

Sunday afternoon: punch-list crew (2 movers) returned to address minor adjustments. A bedroom dresser was placed in the wrong room — moved to the correct one. A side table was slightly leveled. A picture frame was rehung at the customer's preferred height.

Children's school transition: seamless. Same Round Rock ISD elementary and middle school. Kids continued their summer baseball/softball league at the same fields.

Engineer's commute: unchanged. Brushy Creek to Dell HQ is the same ~15 minutes as Forest Creek to Dell HQ.

Wife's first email a month later: "We thought going from 3 bedrooms to 5 bedrooms would mean a lot more cleaning. It does — but the playroom alone is worth it. The kids haven't fought over space once."