After all of our experience working with different customers, we’ve learned a thing or two about moving. That’s why our team put together our best tips for helping your move go smoothly:
Moving Tips For Easy Packing & Preparation
- Pack a bag with essential clothes, toiletries and documents to keep with you, separate from items being moved in the truck.
- Start Early. Reserve your company early. The end of the month is the busiest time for moving companies and truck rental companies.
- Start packing as soon as you have a move date set. Start in your garage, attic, basement, storage closet, or where ever your least used items are kept
- Donate, sell, recycle or dispose of items you no longer want and won’t need to move.
- Heavy items go in small boxes.
- Be sure to empty all drawers.
- Tape boxes. Do not interlock tops or bottoms.
- Use markers to clearly identify contents of each box, what room they are to be placed in, and whether the box is fragile or heavy.
- Pack heavy items at the bottom of boxes.
- Pack breakables with at least an inch of paper or material
- between them.
- Do not use news paper as packing material, as it can stain some items.
- Do not over pack boxes so that they can not be closed easily.
- Do not use boxes with open tops, they can not be stacked properly.
- Pack valuables/essentials together and set aside. Move them in your own vehicle or put them on the truck last and verify their arrival and where they are placed.
- Pack clothes and soft items in your luggage or heavy-duty garbage bags.
- Use wardrobe boxes for your hanging items.
- Pack electrical equipment in original boxes, if possible. Tape power chords and remote controls and other accessories to the base of the item.
- Disassemble pressed wood and particle board furniture. Bag and tape hardware to the largest piece. Take pictures of the disassembly to facilitate reassembly.
- Empty refrigerators and freezers. Defrost one day in advance.
- Box sealed foods. Consume perishables and open food containers prior to the move.
- Open food containers should not be packed as they can attract insects.
- Containers with liquids that have already already been opened should not be packed as they can spill.
- Notify your neighbors and management of building or community.
- Reserve parking, elevators or loading docks ahead of time.
- Relax, moving can be a very stressful event. Our trained staff is here to help you.
