Regardless if you work with professional movers or do it yourself, it is great to understand how to cover the furnishings and what to anticipate. We offer moving products and often hear questions: - The number of moving blankets do I need? Which moving blanket should I utilize and how do I cover my furniture?
The method to cover furnishings for moving depends upon specifics of your relocation. Is it interstate relocation, throughout the nation, or regional walking around the block? Loading PODS or international shipping container, or transferring to long term storage?
If you are preparing yourself to move and worried about securely moving your family items this series of posts will reveal in information how to cover your furnishings for any little or big move. People in some cases ignore amount of packing required for a moving job, but it is very important to pack your personal valuables properly. I have remained in the moving organisation for over twenty years, moved numerous households personally as a supervisor and chauffeur, and then thousands more as an owner of a moving company, both moving locally and moving interstate. I was teaching my movers the best and most efficient methods of covering and dealing with furniture, wrapping with blankets, crating, boxing, you name it.
Contrary to some statements I came across in other posts, Movers do care about your delivery, in many cases foreman is personally accountable to pay for your damages and movers also understand that if something gets broken it is not likely that they get any suggestions. It is important to make a supervisor (moving crew leader) which items need special care.
Do not expect movers to see your family products the way you see it. The movers merely do not have time to think about how delicate each and every product may be. For example a bottle with unique sand, layered by the color and even in a special style, will be destroyed if simply laid on its side. Movers will make sure to load the bottle that it will be safe, but they might not understand that the sand layers inside the bottle are not fixed and might blend into an ugly mess from vibration in the truck. It is real that a lot of damage occurs while bring, dumping and loading, however it is also true that if movers (or yourself) do not pack the truck correctly some products will get damaged in transit.
Word of caution about searching for a moving company: If you have important furniture to move - do not try to find inexpensive movers, look for great ones. Inexperienced movers or movers with bad credibility compete on rate, not on professionalism. Good movers should have to be paid well. As the saying goes - you get what you spent for.
Moving Loading Materials. There is range of packing products available: bubble sleeves, plate cell packaging kits, foam peanuts, bubble craft and so on. We are not trying to cover 100% of the packaging products, but just the most popular that are used by movers which you can and should anticipate to discover in a moving truck: Blankets, Boxes, paper, bubble wrap and Shrink wrap, plastic covers. With this set of products you can move any type and load of china, furnishings or art work.
If you are moving in your area and hiring a professional moving business you need to anticipate them to show up with blankets and you ought to not be charged for it. If you are moving long distance (interstate moving) or to storage, then buying your own moving blankets may be an excellent idea. Moving Blankets can be of two major kinds: Quilted or padded moving blankets and Non-Quilted,, likewise called Skins or Area Savers.
Economy moving blankets supply adequate protection and do not take much room in the storage. For cross country or interstate moving where interstate provider charges by weight the benefit is that these blankets are much lighter than routine moving blankets. For heavy strong wood furniture, leather couches, heavy dining tables etc. it is much better to get much heavier, thicker blankets that will supply much better defense versus bumps and dents. Moving blankets with woven external material much more long lasting moving blankets and will serve much longer if you move often. Non-quilted moving blankets can be made out of felt or weblink burlap on one side and felt on the other. These ought to not be discounted particularly if your main concern the furnishings rubbing versus each other. If you are loading your own pod, or container - you can utilize area savers with excellent success.
Another alternative is paper moving blankets. Paper loading blankets are built of 2 external layers of brown kraft and 3 inner layers of lightweight paper. The 3 inner layers can include newsprint, lightweight kraft, tissue, fake, or non woven papers. A lot of people are not even familiar with paper blankets to be used for moving, meanwhile it is an excellent alternative to quilted moving blankets, especially if you are moving only as soon as or sending your items to a long term storage or moving overseas. Paper blankets are breathable, supply excellent security and 100% recyclable.
Boxes. Moving boxes can be single wall, such as Book boxes, Linen boxes etc. or double wall, such as China Boxes, TV boxes, Wardrobe boxes and so on. Double wall boxes are much more powerful and hold more weight. Please DO NOT try to fill them to capability. Packing Wardrobe box loaded with books is not a good concept. Call of package is extremely suggestive: Book boxes (1.5 cubic feet) are for books, Small Linen boxes (3.1 c.f.) or Big Linen boxes (4.5 c.f.) are for folded clothing, towels and linen, China boxes, 5,.2 c.f. is for delicate items, and wardrobe box (come in 10.1 c.f. or 15 c.f. and 4 feet high) is for hanging clothes. And of course there are picture boxes, light boxes, bed mattress boxes and a whole line of all kinds of specialized boxes, corners etc
. Cushioning Products. When you load delicate items in a box - you require something to supply cushioning. Most popular is Bubble wrap and Blank newsprint. Blank newsprint or white paper comes in 5, 10 or 25 pounds packages. Blank newsprint is the finest for packing kitchenware, plates, china, fragile products, or just filling empty spaces in a box. Bubble wrap come in 12 or 24 inch large rolls and with different bubble sizes. Movers mainly use 0.5 inch bubble wrap 24 inches large. Bubble wrap is great for wrapping electronics or big pieces of glass.
Plastic Covers. Plastic covers for moving would include Shrink stretch or wrap wrap and Plastic bed mattress cover, plastic sofa cover or plastic chair covers. Shrink wrap - is extensively used in shipping to keep a load on a pallet together as one system and not to enable it to fall apart or products disappear from shipment. In moving furnishings shrink wrap was originally utilized to keep items with small parts or opening drawers or doors together. It ended up being an alternative for plastic covers to wrap bed mattress. It is not better than a plastic bed mattress cover, but it is more profitable for a moving business: it cost much less to buy a roll of diminish wrap, but it takes longer to wrap plus mover can charge more for each item covered. Movers might even wrap shrink wrap on top of furniture already covered in blankets. It looks great, but it is really costly and definitely worthless. If you put your products to storage shrink wrap is really damaging to the furnishings, since it traps the moisture and the furnishings can actually rot under the diminish wrap if saved long enough. I would highly suggest utilizing mattress covers, because even if it will be covered in a blanket - you do not know what was covered in that blanket prior to. And mattress is what you sleep on. Couches with light colored upholstery would be better off if you cover it with plastic couch cove before covering in the furniture blankets. Often the color bleeds off the moving blanket onto upholstery.
SUMMARY: When preparing for the move think about specifics of your move and consider the furnishings you want to wrap. - Get area savers or paper blankets, need better defense - get premium quality thick moving blankets.