Best Packaging Tips to Protect Your Items

Your moving day is approaching, and you are starting to wonder about the best packaging to use? There are many types of packaging that can help you protect your items, but which are the most recommended for strength and security? Cardboard, bubble wrap, newspapers. Expert Mover provides you with all our professional tips to make your packaging optimally for your move.

Packaging Tips to Protect Your Items

1 - The Boxes: The essential for the move

• It's impossible to talk about packaging for your move without mentioning the boxes, great essentials that will facilitate the transport of all your small items.
• However, choosing the right boxes for packaging is imperative to ensure their perfect use and optimized protection.
• Single corrugated cartons will be perfect for storing light items, while reinforced double corrugated cartons will transport heavier items.
• If possible, reuse the original packaging for the most fragile objects such as the TV, a computer, or a console will be perfect for providing them with ideal protection.
• Proper storage inside the box means leaving enough space so that the objects are not subjected to pressure that could break them.

2 - Bubble wrap: The best protection against shocks

• In any move, bubble wrap is one of the essentials to pack your belongings safely.
• It will use to wrap the most fragile objects before placing them in a box.
• Some items will only require one layer of protection, while others like glass or porcelain items will require multiple coats to ensure that they don't take any impact that could break them.
• Often more bubble wrap is used than necessary, and well thought out use will be more effective than overuse.
• Taking care to maintain the bubble wrap with thick tape will ensure the impeccable protection of all your objects.

3 - Stretch film: An ideal packaging for furniture

• Large rolls of plastic stretch film are the perfect packaging to protect your furniture effectively.
• It will not tighten resistance to shocks but more particularly to friction and scratches.
• But its usefulness also lies in the fact that it will support your bulky items.
• The plastic film is used by wrapping it around the object, which will then be secure furniture relocation (prevent the doors or drawers from opening during transport).
• It is practical and economical, and it does not need tape to be closed since it ensures a closure on itself.

4 - The blanket: Indispensable element of the mover

• The real mover's cover is one of the essentials during any self-respecting move!
• If you have ever had the opportunity to attend a professional move, you have surely noticed that the movers use a large, solid blanket to protect the furniture during its transport.
• For a do-it-yourself move, this thick and resistant blanket will be strongly recommended to cover your furniture and transport it to the truck (to be found on sites specializing in moving packaging).
• Practical and infinitely reusable, it remains economical and will protect your furniture from any scratches or shocks when loading into the truck.

5 - Newsprint: Old-fashioned protection that is still effective

• If your budget is very tight and does not allow you to invest in the traditional packaging for a move outside the boxes, newsprint will come to your rescue!
• Traditionally used to wrap and protect all kinds of objects, it remains a must-have that will serve as protection and wedging inside boxes.
• Economical and sufficiently resistant, newsprint can be used in two ways:
• By wrapping it around objects to a sufficient thickness to protect them from impact
• In a ball to wedge the various objects in a moving box
• This simple and inexpensive trick will be a perfect alternative to traditional bubble wrap and other packaging and protection elements.

6 - Protective covers: Indispensable for textiles

• Protective covers such as mattress covers made especially for the move will be essential to guarantee the perfect hygiene of your textiles, and you’re bedding.
• For clothing-type textiles, a suitcase may be sufficient.
• On the other hand, when it comes to bedding, being able to protect your mattress with a resistant and waterproof cover will be strongly recommended.
• It is used as a traditional cover and covers the entire mattress to protect it from dust and dirt throughout the move.

This type of cover is very easy to find on websites specializing in moving packaging.