Don't know where to start your move? All our practical advice to organize yourself before the moving day and pack your boxes properly in order to preserve your personal items. Expert Mover helps you to pack your boxes.
Steps to Pack Your Boxes
Prepare Your Moving Boxes
Before making your boxes, you obviously need to find sufficient packing company. Pharmacies and businesses (shops, supermarkets) generally have boxes of different sizes in stock that they do not intend to use.
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Don't hesitate to ask them to give them to you for free. Otherwise, large DIY stores sell lots of new cardboard boxes and moving items.
In fact, in addition to cardboard boxes, also provide yourself with newspaper or bubble wrap. These will help you protect fragile items before placing them in the boxes. It will also be necessary to remember to provide you with rolls of adhesive to close correctly and a marker in order to note on each box its contents or the room of the house for which it is intended.
Least Used Items First
About 2 weeks before the move, go to each room of your house and do a big sorting: put everything you no longer intend to keep in garbage bags. Then list and put together the items you use the least or are sure you won't use until your move or the first few days of your arrangement. Start by putting them in the boxes and with the marker, write on each set of boxes the room (children's or adult room, living room, office etc.).
For fragile items such as plates, glasses, vases, decorative items, paintings and more, wrap them one by one with newspaper and / or bubble wrap. Place fragile objects so that they are well wedged in the boxes. Thus, they will not move and will not risk breaking. Put the word “FRAGILE” on boxes with breakable or fragile objects. An effective trick for large fragile items is to wrap them in a blanket. TIPS FOR PACKING FRAGILE ITEMS
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For your pants and coats, choose wardrobes so that your clothes stay straight and not wrinkled. Vacuum bags are also highly recommended, especially for sweaters, because in addition to saving you space, they protect your clothes
Adopt the Right Reflexes
To pack your boxes properly, be sure to put the heaviest items on the bottom and the lightest on top. This will prevent reckless breakages. In the same vein, avoid keeping empty spaces in your boxes. If any remains, you can fill them with clothing or newspaper.
To find yourself more easily when unpacking (relocation company may help in packing/unpacking) your boxes in your new home, you can write details of its contents on each box or simply number your boxes (by piece) in order of priority.
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Thus, the objects that you will use immediately in the kitchen after your arrangement will be, for example, in the "Kitchen N ° 1" box.
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Author:
Louis Massaro
I’m blessed to have had tremendous success in the moving industry, building a nationwide company from scratch that provided a great service. I’m the author of 10 Rules of hiring professional movers dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in the moving industry
