MOVING RESOURCES · GREATER CHARLESTON
Everything for a Charleston move, in one place.
Free guides, a printable checklist, moving boxes by town, and the official links you will need anyway. Written for local moves, by the people who deliver the crates.
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Package calculator
Bedrooms and square footage in, a crate package out. Ten seconds.
Moving Checklist for Charleston
A printable week-by-week moving checklist for a Charleston move: what to book, cancel, pack and confirm from eight weeks out through the first night in your new home.
How Many Moving Boxes Do You Need? A Room-by-Room Guide
Estimate how many moving boxes or crates you need by home size and bedrooms, from a studio to a five-bedroom house, with a calculator for Charleston moves.
Packing Tips for a Charleston Move
A practical packing plan for moving in Charleston: what to pack first, how to load crates, labeling, heat and humidity, and how to unpack fast in your new home.
Prefer paper? Download the checklist PDF with fillable checkboxes.
Guides
Moving Boxes in Charleston
Where to get moving boxes in Charleston, SC: what cardboard costs, where free boxes come from, and why renting plastic moving bins is easier for most local moves.
How Many Moving Boxes Do You Need? A Room-by-Room Guide
Estimate how many moving boxes or crates you need by home size and bedrooms, from a studio to a five-bedroom house, with a calculator for Charleston moves.
Packing Tips for a Charleston Move
A practical packing plan for moving in Charleston: what to pack first, how to load crates, labeling, heat and humidity, and how to unpack fast in your new home.
Storage Bins for Renovations, Decluttering and Moves in Charleston
Rent sturdy plastic storage bins in Charleston for a renovation, a declutter, staging a home for sale, or the gap between homes. Delivered and collected.
Moving Checklist for Charleston
A printable week-by-week moving checklist for a Charleston move: what to book, cancel, pack and confirm from eight weeks out through the first night in your new home.
Moving Supplies in Charleston
The moving supplies a Charleston move really needs, what is included with a Totally Boxless crate rental, and what you can leave off the shopping list.
Cardboard vs. reusable crates
The whole move side by side: buying, taping, packing, unpacking and disposal.
Rental terms
What is included, what happens if a crate goes missing, and how extensions work.
Moving boxes by town
Where boxes come from in each community, what they cost, and how crate delivery works there.
Charleston & nearby neighborhoods
East Cooper & the coast
North Charleston & Berkeley
Islands & southwest Charleston
Summerville & Dorchester
Outer-area planning
Looking for the planning guide for a town instead? See all service areas.
Local links for your move
Official sites, in the order you will need them. Totally Boxless is not affiliated with any of them.
- USPS change of address File the forward before moving day.
- SCDMV Update your license and vehicle registration after the move.
- SC voter registration Move your registration to the new address.
- Dominion Energy Electric and gas across most of Greater Charleston.
- Berkeley Electric Cooperative Electric for much of Berkeley County, Johns Island and the sea islands.
- Charleston Water System Water and sewer for Charleston, West Ashley and James Island.
- Mount Pleasant Waterworks Water and sewer for Mount Pleasant.
- Summerville CPW Water and sewer for Summerville.
- Berkeley County Water and Sanitation Water, sewer and trash for unincorporated Berkeley County.
- Dorchester County Water and trash for unincorporated Dorchester County.
- Charleston County recycling Recycling schedules and drop sites.