How to Film a Walkthrough of Your Home for a Moving Quote

Turn on the lights and open the blinds. A dark room on video looks like an empty room, and the mover prices what they can see. Charge the phone, and hold it sideways if you can: it shows more of the room in one frame.

Do not tidy up first. The mover is pricing what will go on the truck, and a cleaned-up room hides part of that. Film the home the way it is today. Packed boxes are fine too. Just say what is in them or how many there are.

This is the part most people skip, and it matters most. A video shows a mover what is in the room. Only your voice says what is leaving. The couch in the corner might be going to the curb or going to the new place, and the camera cannot tell the difference.

So talk as you walk, in plain words:

• “This stays. That goes. The sectional is coming, the TV stand is not.”
• Counts for the small stuff: “about six boxes of books on this shelf, two shelves of dishes.”
• Anything heavy or awkward, named out loud: piano, safe, treadmill, pool table, a big mirror.
• “Everything in this closet is coming,” or “only the top shelf.”

You do not need a script and nobody is grading your delivery. Short and specific beats polished.

Start at one end of the home and keep moving in one direction. Do not jump back to a room you skipped unless you have to. For each room:

• Stand in the doorway and pan slowly across the whole room.
• Pause for a couple of seconds on each wall and each big piece. A fast pan can blur past a dresser.
• Open the closets and any cabinet or drawer that is full, and pan across the shelves.
• Say what is moving before you walk out.

The kitchen is where boxes hide: pantry, cabinets over the fridge, the shelf of pots nobody uses. Pan the open cabinets the same way you would a closet.

Movers get burned by the same few spaces. Film them even if they feel like clutter you would rather not show:

• The garage, shed and any storage unit. For many homes this is the biggest surprise on the job.
• The attic and the basement, including the shelves along the walls.
• Under beds and the tops of closets.
• Patio and yard furniture, grills, bikes, tools and gym equipment.
• Wall art, mirrors and anything fragile that will need its own box.

If you do not know whether something is coming, show it and say so. “Not sure about this one” is a useful answer. The mover can ask.

Price depends on the carry, not only on the stuff. At the end, film the way out: the stairs, the elevator, a narrow hallway, the walk from your door to where the truck would park, and the parking itself. Say how many steps and how long the walk is. A long carry costs real hours on move day, and the mover would rather know now.

Do the same at the delivery address if you can get there. If you cannot, describe it: floor, elevator, stairs, how close a truck can get.

• Filming only the big furniture and skipping closets, garage and storage.
• Saying nothing, so the mover has to guess what is staying.
• Panning too fast. Slow down at each area.
• Filming packed boxes and not saying what is in them.
• Stopping at the front door and never showing the access.

A customer who gets a bare link films a minute of the living room and sends it. A customer who gets three lines films the whole home. Send this with the link, in the same text:

Hi, it’s [name] at [company]. Here’s the link to show us your home: film every room once, including the garage and any storage, and open the closets as you go. Say out loud what’s coming and what’s staying. Takes about ten minutes. I’ll go through it and call you back today with a real number.

On MoveBlueprint the customer reaches that walkthrough from the quote form on your website, on their own phone, with no app to install. If they would rather talk it through, you walk the home with them on a live video call instead. Either way you get an inventory, you review it before you quote, and it lands in the CRM you already run or in your MoveBlueprint dashboard. How the whole process works is in the guide to quoting without driving to the house, and the two ways to run a walkthrough are compared in recorded or live.