Some of the oldest and largest Chicago moving companies prefer to provide as little in the line of residential moving services as possible, opting instead to do only commercial jobs. They prefer commercial jobs over residential household goods jobs because commercials tend to be big and they do not require the moving skills that are necessary to successfully move a homeowners high-quality household goods without damages.

Commercial customer's office furnishings are usually already nicked, scratched or damaged to some degree so any further minor damages are usually unimportant. Therefore these movers mainly just focus on expediting their jobs even if that causes damages. They do not have to protect furniture as carefully as do Chicago residential moving companies, so they can use day-laborers and other inexpensive unskilled casual laborers for their commercial jobs.

..."the four men were extremely efficient, pleasant, hardworking and trustworthy"...

When it comes to discriminating residential moving customers, they expect to get highly skilled movers who will first and foremost carefully protect all of their valued furnishings and then expedite the job. Residential customers do not want unskilled help or casual day laborers doing their job and wrecking their fine furniture.

Many Chicago residential movers use unskilled day labor types in order to save labor costs. Consequently, they will inform their customers that their only liability for damages to goods is 30 cents per pound per article which is mandated by the Illinois Commerce Commission. They do not bother to tell their customers that the Commerce Commission also mandates that professional movers customers can instead take extra valuation coverage from the mover or that they can take replacement value insurance from a legitimate insurance company to cover damages that may occur during the moving of their goods. This is because these unscrupulous movers know that their crews are damage prone and they do not want their customers to be knowledgable that they can hold a mover liable to repair or replace damaged goods if they pay for extra coverage.

Many people have told us that they could not find a high-quality Chicago residential moving service that excels at household goods moving involving their fine furnishings, antiques and / or pianos / organs until they discovered Burrows. To offer this high caliber of moving Chicago residential moving services can only employ  well-trained, capable, and experienced movers who know how to carefully protect fine furnishings.

Burrows Moving Company's excellent record with mover's watch-dog groups (listed in the left margin)and our many reference letters testify to our proven track record of being a high quality Chicago residential moving company.