moving tips and checklist
Moving tips, moving checklists, or moving advice help you have a stress-free moving day. They will help you to decrease your damages besides your moving cost.
There are many moving tips or moving checklists on the internet. They help you to make your moving process more comfortable and more efficient. However, some of them that come first on the internet are fancy forums from businesses which are not moving companies. They make pages to increase their website traffic.
The best moving tips and advice come from moving companies. Moving companies share years of experience via this advice to help you on your moving day.
- You can find the best answer to this question after talking to friends, family, neighbours, and relatives who have recently moved.
- Another way is inquiring on social media like Facebook and Twitter.
- You can also search the moving companies reviews online. Looking at their rating is not just enough. You also should check how many people rate good and how many rates are weak. Also, it would help if you read the moving company’s replies.
Moving into a new home is challenging. You can prepare yourself to minimize the difficulties on a moving day.
It is better to notify your moving company about all the challenges. Imagine you provide comprehensive information, yet you do not mention your piano. Then, on your moving day, the company arrives with no piano pallet.
You might need to inform the moving company about the height restrictions of your loading zone. Consequently, they arrive with a moving truck higher than the loading zone. As a result, they need to park farther. Then, the time of your moving services and moving cost might increase.
Generally, it is optimal to restrict the moving time, NOT more than 6-7 hours. The movers will not work efficiently after lifting heavy items for 6-7 hours.
Most of the time, 2 to 3 movers can complete your move. However, sometimes, you might need more movers. For example, the move takes longer if you move many boxes and your current location, or destination, has many stairs.
We recommend you ask your moving company to attend and see if your move is complicated. After seeing your place, they can coordinate the appropriate moving truck, several movers, and other details.
It depends on the season and date of the months and the housing business.
Moving companies always are busier at the end of the month. Also, as a general rule, they are more active in summer than winter. However, in 2018, our moving company in winter was as busy as summer because of the housing business.
Therefore, it is a good idea to call your moving company at the beginning of the month to arrange your move.
- Notify your building manager of your moving date if you need to reserve the elevator.
- Provide a proper parking spot for your moving company. Sometimes you need to contact the city to reserve a parking spot for your moving truck.
- When moving, show all the existing scratches or damages on walls or floors to the inspector. Sometimes, missing even one single small mark can cause trouble. We recommend taking pictures of these damages.
- On daylight-saving dates, ensure you are on the same page with your moving company.
- Avoid any possible injury and damage to the pictures on the wall. Remove the images and paintings on the way, and remove the nails or hooks before your moving day. You can also ask your movers to do it first on a moving day.
- Leave your fridge in an upright position unplugged for almost 2 hours before you plug it back.
- Prepare some ice gel packs and place them in your freezer especially in the summertime before your moving day. These will help keep your food cool on moving days.
- Keep a plastic cooler handy and fill it with food and ice gel packs right before pick-up. The movers will load it last, so it is one of the first items unloaded at the destination. Then, you can place them in the refrigerator or freezer as soon as possible.
- Try to keep the liquid bottles together.
- Cover each bottle with an extra layer of paper or a used plastic bag in case it breaks. Do not make a mess for the other bottles
- Wrap the bottle with bubble wrap, wrapping paper, or used cardboard pieces.
- Cover the cardboard boxes with a layer of plastic bag in case of leaking avoid leaking to your furniture. For example, if bleach leaks on any fabric couch, it destroys it permanently. Using our free plastic moving boxes eliminates a lot of packing and plastic material.
- When placing the bottle in the box, protect them with pieces of cardboard or layers of paper or towel etc.
- Mark the boxes and show the direction with an arrow.
- Do not overload the boxes with more than 15.00 kg or 33.00 pounds;
- Make sure you mark the box "LIQUID."
It is better to avoid sending the following material with moving trucks
- Corrosives
- Ammonia
- Gasoline
- Bleach; please see "packing and moving liquids" above.
- Propane tank
- paint
- Kerosene
- Explosives
- Fireworks
You might think about how to pack for a move. Or what is the best way to pack up your house when moving?
- Use uniform boxes for packing. We advise using our free plastic moving boxes to make your move easier. They are excellent, especially when you are moving in the rain.
- Keep the contents of each box under 44 lbs. or 20 kg. Besides damage, moving heavy boxes is challenging, tires the movers quickly, and decreases the mover’s efficiency.
- Use small boxes for dense items like books and larger boxes for lighter things like clothes.
- Tape and secure all your moving boxes using cardboard boxes. Taping boxes prevent losing any small items. It also helps the movers stack, carry, and pack the boxes faster and easier.
- Moving boxes with coloured stickers make their move to the right place more comfortable.
- Pack fragile items like dishes with wrapping, packing paper, bubble wrap, and cardboard.
- Avoid using newspaper as packing material as it leaves marks on the dishes or items.
- Place delicate items in the middle of boxes to avoid damage on the side of your moving boxes.
- To balance the weight of your moving boxes, pack clothes and fragile items in the same box.
moving heavy boxes, challenging
MORE PACKING TIPS
- Sometimes, people move small items and hire a moving company to move furniture. In these cases, try not to block the mover’s path by placing the little things in their way.
- Do not leave some items for packing on moving day. It wastes a lot of time.
- Movers cannot use their hand trucks or dollies properly for moving loose items.
- The packer inside the truck spends more time securing them to avoid damage.
- Empty the drawers; it is not good to leave some items unpacked inside the drawers.
- In the new place, movers should move them many times to stay intact.
- Separate and remove unwanted items or materials. They make the moving process longer and moving expenses more expensive.
- Make sure you place the phone and car keys in a secure place.
- keep your pets away on your moving day
- Ask your children not to stay in the way the movers move items.
- Avoid moving your piano. Please leave it to professionals.
This part of moving tips is one of the most asked questions in the moving business. Many things might increase your moving time. The best solution is to ask your moving company to see your place before your moving date.
Many different things affect the moving time.
- How many boxes are at your place?
- How ready are you? Do you still need to pack when the movers move the items, or are you wholly done?
- Are you living in an apartment or a house?
- If you are in an apartment,
- How far is the elevator from your place?
- How far is the elevator from the truck?
- Does the truck have a designed loading zone?
- What kinds of furniture do you have?
- Do they need too much attention to packing or are they simple things?
- How many items do you have that need to be disassembled and assembled again?
- Is your elevator locked for your move?
You can control your moving time and moving expenses by making everything ready.
