Home Packing Series – Full Guide on How to Pack Every Room
Having a big home is amazing, isn’t it? Your home is cozy, filled with nice memories, and the place where you feel the most at peace. All that is great until you have to pack everything up in cardboard boxes, plastic boxes, trash bags, and whatnot. Where to start? It can seem quite draining and nerve-wracking if you don’t prepare correctly. Need to pack up your whole house and get ready for relocating? Check out this complete, room-to-room guide. Before Packing – Prepare Before you start packing up all your belongings, you should do (and get) the following: Make a to-do listGet moving quotes and hire movers as soon as possibleDelegate duties between family membersGet packing supplies (boxes, plastic bags, packing tape and blankets, bubble wrap, packing peanuts, etc.) Now, let’s get into packing, room by room. Packing Kitchen One of the most demanding parts of the process is to know how to pack your kitchen in detail. The kitchen contains many appliances, as well as fragile dishes that can be quite heavy, too. One of the best pieces of advice is to start packing items or food you don’t use so often and that you know you won’t need until you relocate, for example, some specific cooking appliances or some canned food in the pantry. When packing dishes in boxes, apply the “heaviest to lightest” trick – the heaviest items go to the bottom, while the lightest go on the top. Packing Living Room When you think about packing a living room, you are not so upset, right? The living room seems rather easy to pack since it...
Packing and Moving Commercial Equipment
Relocating professional equipment might be more complex than relocating a house. Expensive machines and pieces of equipment will give you more of a headache than, for example, relocating a home office because you are dealing with more costly and valuable pieces for your business. Packing sensitive, commercial pieces is one of the trickiest jobs while moving. How to do it right? Take a look at these pro tips. Make a Detailed Plan Relocating a company should be planned out accordingly, whether you are relocating it nearby or long-distance. You need to be on top of the events before the moving day. Plan everything ahead and, if your team is larger, delegate duties and tasks. Inform all the employees about the move and give them enough time to prepare. Make checklists and daily goals to advance smoothly towards the moving day. Find Professional Movers As finding a professional moving team to carry out a commercial move smoothly can be a challenge, it’s essential to start as early as possible. Since your equipment is of great value, make sure to get good quotes. When the company makes an assessment, an in-person look would be the best, if possible. Also, go for the cost-effective solutions, but never at the cost of damaging your precious machines. Ensure safety and good service, even if that means investing more money since your business is your asset. Professional movers will use the best packing supplies and sturdy boxes for relocation. They should be able to guarantee the safety of the transported goods. Check out the insurance coverage and negotiate the best options for you. Ensure Yourselves...
Packing Oddly-Shaped Items – How to Do It Right
When moving a house or business to a different location, you learn a lot about organizing for the moving day, as well as packing. The latter is definitely, quite a tedious process and, depending on the size of your house or office, it can get lengthy. Also, it can be easy or quite complicated, depending on the items you’re packing. For example, packing clothes and books is an easy task – those items are the easiest to put into boxes and suitcases simply because their shape makes it easy. But, how do you pack strangely-shaped items like certain lamps, decorations, or tools? Here are a few pieces of advice on how to do so. Find Enough Time for a Demanding Task If the oddly-shaped items are a daunting task for you, the best thing to do is designate a specific time to protect and pack them. When you complete a task like this, it will be easier to pack other items. Use Appropriate Packing Materials & Boxes Since items with an odd shape are more challenging to fit into a box and keep safe, you need packing materials. Get packing paper, bubble wrap and moving blankets (or even your towels or blankets for buffering if you want to save money), duct tape, and a labeling marker. Boxes are also quite an essential item – the more fragile items you have, the sturdier boxes will be of help. When you get plastic packing boxes, you won’t be afraid that the boxes will get squished or damaged in the process, along with your fragile items in them. Do You Need Professional...
Packing & Unpacking Services – Do You Need Them?
Relocating can take the best out of you since it can be a pretty stressful and overwhelming process. One of the things that add to it the most is the whole packing process. Why do people dread packing so much? Because it can get quite time-consuming and tedious. Professional moving companies offer packing and unpacking services. But, do you really need them? Here are some pros and cons to pro-packing. Pros of Pro Packing & Unpacking One of the biggest issues with packing is that it takes a lot of time. That’s why when professional packers take over, your precious asset, that is time, will be only yours. Another advantage is the expertise that professionals have over you, who would DIY the packing process. Pro packers usually use special relocation equipment and plastic boxes to protect your belongings, and they also know how to handle especially fragile pieces. Packing causes stress more often than not, and the experts you hire will eliminate it. Cons of Pro Packing & Unpacking If not the only important one for most people, one of the major cons is its price. Hiring people to pack for you costs money, and that’s why many people try to refrain from this service in order to save as much as possible while relocating. Also, while you have to pay for the white-glove services, you can’t go without doing your own inventory and preparing the belongings for packing. That’s why some of you might think – then, why shouldn’t I pack it all up once I’ve gone through all my stuff? Is It Worth It? This question really...
