Movers in Martinez, CA
Martinez is the Contra Costa county seat — an old refinery-and-rail town on the Carquinez Strait. Its historic downtown is full of Victorians and craftsman bungalows near the marina and the John Muir house, with postwar pockets on the hills above and the county courthouse holding down the core. The older stock is really the story here: tall, slender Victorians with original woodwork and steep center stairs, craftsman homes whose built-ins are worth guarding, and hillside ranches with a view. Nava Bros has worked the Martinez streets since Hector and Ramon launched the company, and the brothers know the old grid asks for patience.
What leaves a Martinez house
The downtown Victorians and craftsman bungalows are delicate work — slender center stairs, original banisters and built-ins, door frames cut for an earlier century. Diego’s crew blankets the trim, hoods the newel posts, and eases oversized pieces out level instead of cranking them around a tight bend. These homes carry full cellars and steep porch steps, so the day blends a real haul with serious guarding. Up the hill, the ranches above town are an easier flat carry with a packed garage to box. Inland heat builds in summer, so dawn clock-ins are the rule.
Reaching the curb
The old downtown grid runs tight — skinny streets, on-street parking, and steep marina blocks where a full rig simply won’t fit. Ramon scouts the spot from dispatch and brings a truck cut to the street. Up on the hills the driveways open back up and the rig parks at the entry. As elsewhere in the county, PG&E public-safety shutoffs and wildfire haze can bump a date, and we plan around them. From the curb, I-680 and Highway 4 stage a Martinez job for the Bay, central county, or a longer push.
Why Martinez rings Nava Bros
In an old home, the thing that matters is a crew that actually shields original woodwork — and that’s what you get, alongside one figure on paper and brothers who run the trucks themselves. Antiques and uprights get walked out on padded blankets under declared full-value coverage, which runs about one to three percent of the amount you name; basic liability sits at the federal sixty-cents-per-pound standard, every load insured to a million in cargo with nine months to file a claim. The trade fundamentals don’t change house to house: roughly $145 an hour for two movers, flat bands at about $550 for a studio or one-bedroom, near $1,400 at two, around $2,500 for three, more for a larger home. And it’s all on a real California carrier license — CPUC Cal-T No. 0192284, USDOT/MC authority — with our own employed crews and our own trucks, never a clearinghouse. Marisol’s written figure is the bill, with no add-on after the truck pulls out.
