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hipping valuable or fragile items like fine art or large electronics requires extra care. Ship Smart’s onsite crating services provide professional wood crating at location, ensuring your treasures are protected for secure transport. With 25+ years of experience, an A+ BBB rating, and excellent Trustpilot reviews, we’re the trusted choice for crating services.

What Is Ship Smart’s Onsite Crating Service?

Our onsite crating service sends certified professionals to your home or business to build custom wooden crates for your high-value items. The service is expensive and reserved for extremely fragile or expensive pieces, this service ensures maximum protection during shipping. Whether you’re moving fine art, antiques, or sensitive electronics, we tailor our crating to your needs.

Items We Crate Onsite

We specialize in crating delicate and valuable items, including:

  • Fine Art: Paintings, sculptures, and framed pieces, as outlined in our guide on shipping high-value items.
  • Large Electronics: High-value servers or large medical equipment.
  • Expensive Large Antiques: Fragile furniture or heirlooms requiring extra care.
  • One-Of-A-Kind Fragile Items: We use suspended or A-frame crates for delicate structures.

Benefits of Onsite Crating with Ship Smart

Our crating onsite service offers unparalleled protection and convenience. Here’s why Ship Smart stands out:

  • Custom Wood Crates: Built onsite to fit your item perfectly, ensuring safety.
  • Expert Craftsmanship: Certified professionals use premium materials, as detailed in our blog on shipping high-value items safely.
  • Full Insurance Eligibility: Crated items qualify for comprehensive coverage.
  • Nationwide Access: 300+ locations for seamless service across the U.S.
  • Transparent Pricing: Hourly rates plus materials, with no hidden fees.
  • Trusted Reputation: Backed by 25+ years of expertise and top ratings.

This service prepares your items for the next step: secure shipping.

How Onsite Crating Fits into Our Moving Process

Ship Smart’s crate at my location service is integrated into our streamlined moving process, ensuring your high-value items are ready for transport. Here’s how it works, as explained in our shipping process overview:

  1. Estimate: Request a free quote using our online moving calculator or call 866-333-8018.
  2. Pickup Scheduling: Arrange a time for our team to crate onsite, typically within 2–10 days.
  3. Onsite Crating: Experts build custom wooden crates at your location.
  4. Warehouse Handling: Crated items are transported to our facility for final preparation.
  5. Shipping: Items are shipped securely via trusted carriers. Learn more about the next phase of our process.
  6. Delivery: Choose curbside or white-glove delivery for convenience.

Our process ensures your fragile items are protected from start to finish.

Secure Your High-Value Items with Ship Smart

Don’t risk damage to your fine art or electronics choose Ship Smart’s onsite crating for professional protection. Our on location wood crating service, available at 300+ U.S. locations, ensures your high-value items are ready for secure shipping, domestically or internationally. Trust our expertise for peace of mind.

Get started today! Call 866-333-8018 to discuss your crating needs, chat with our team via LiveChat, or use our online moving calculator for a custom quote in minutes. Let Ship Smart safeguard your valuables with expert crating and shipping.

What We Do

Ship Smart specializes in small moves shipping out of state. Most moving companies are designed to handle large loads, typically 2000 lbs. and above, but not everyone needs to move a full truckload or a whole household of items.

So why pay for something you are not shipping? Here at Ship Smart you only pay for what you're moving!

Move Now & Pay Later

At Ship Smart, we're committed to making your move simple, stress-free, and affordable. That's why we partnered with Enhancify to provide flexible financing options. Now is the perfect time to take the next step.
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Trustpilot Reviews

May 22, 2025
Exceptionally good customer service and highly professional moving support. This outstanding team worked hard and kept me informed...Great Job!
John Cooper
March 5, 2025
Great customer service Great customer service. All companies used by ShipSmart did a good job. Great communication throughout the process.
Ilene M.
February 15, 2025
From start to finish ShipSmart impressed me with their customer service, whether by phone, text, or in person...the packing was done with such care...
Katie Blackburn

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