There are many helpful articles out there with moving tips and checklists, but how many consider your own safety? The process of moving to another home or relocating to a new office can be a daunting task if you aren’t sure about the correct procedures. Although it’s simply convenient enough to move your furniture and appliances into your moving truck on your own, you do have to be mindful of your safety and the safety of your belongings to ensure that the entire moving process occurs smoothly. Otherwise, you could end up with an injury to yourself or your home.
In this article, you will learn about several moving tips with safety and efficiency in mind. This essential information can assist you in making your upcoming move a less complicated process.
Disassemble Your Furniture
If you are working with a residential moving company, the process of moving large furniture and appliances is a lot more simple. However, to simplify this task even more, all you have to do is disassemble large furniture so that it’s easy to carry and navigate through your home or office. In addition, taking apart massive furniture can prevent a potential accident when you are loading up the moving truck.
Move Slowly
When you are moving furniture and appliances of any size, make sure you are traveling at a safe speed to decrease the chance of a painful injury. For example, if you are carrying a refrigerator from the opposite side and are traveling backward, make sure that you are moving slowly enough to avoid falling. Especially when navigating stairs, being in a rush could be extremely risky when carrying heavy furniture or appliances.
Ask for Help
Moving your furniture and appliances in your home or office is already a time-consuming task. However, if you don’t have the help you need, you could exacerbate the entire process and place your safety in jeopardy. Whether you rely on your friends and relatives, or professional moving companies in Greeley, asking for help is the appropriate method of getting the job done safely. Not only that, but the right help can make the whole process happen much more quickly with a lot less stress. In more ways than one, you may find that a DIY move is not worth the cost.
Protect Your Home
You don’t want to spend time and money hauling things you’re going to toss when you arrive in your new home. These moving tips can help you avoid damage to your things because they won’t be squished in with items you don’t need. It also reduces damage to your new place because you’ve organized and considered how you’ll utilize your belongings and how they fit in your new home.
Professional Moving Services can Help You Avoid Home Damage
With that, let’s look at how to avoid damage to your new place during your move:
Protect your floors
Have you ever chosen a new place to live in part because of the beautiful flooring, only to put a big divot in the floor the day you move in? To prevent this, cover your carpet, hardwood, or other flooring material with items like carpet film protectors, plywood sheets, old rugs, or large pieces of cardboard to avoid scrapes and scratches while your furniture is being moved in.
Protect your walls
A nifty way to protect your walls from damage is to tape up old fabrics or cardboard. You can also install corner guards to protect against chipped corners.
Measure and protect door frames
Door frames can get battered by furniture and other items easily. First, measure the frame to ensure that you can fit your larger belongings through the door and compare it to the measurements of your largest items. Then, if it’s going to be a tight fit, consider installing door frame guards or foam padding to avoid damage.
How to Avoid Damaging Your Belongings
No matter how far you’re moving, you have to take precautions to protect your belongings in transit. Here are a few considerations:
Measure, wrap, and, if possible, dismantle furniture
Of all the items you’re taking with you, your furniture is what will cause you the most stress. To make things as painless as possible when transporting and moving furniture, measure it, so you can compare it to the entrances to your new place. Wrap it in protective fabrics or other materials, paying close attention to corners, and dismantle as much of it as you can. By breaking your bedframe down, for example, you’re saving space in the moving truck and making it much easier to take into your new home.
Use high-quality boxes
A box is a box, but if that box has weak edges or surfaces, it won’t protect your fragile items as well as a sturdy, high-quality box. This doesn’t mean you have to buy boxes the most expensive boxes. Just make sure that what you’re packing your things into can handle the bulk and the weight. Get a variety of different boxes to fit various items like dishes and kitchenware.
Get a range of packing supplies
You might not feel like spending money on packing supplies, but it’s a worthwhile investment to protect your belongings from the moving truck to your new place.
Keep Your Plants Safe
These moving tips don’t only apply to your furniture, but also your plants. Things get bumped and squished during a move, especially if you don’t hire a moving company to help you.
Houseplants can be especially vulnerable to the rigors of moving. From temperature changes to damaged foliage, houseplants can take time to recover from a move or die out altogether if you’re not careful.
Let’s take a look at a few tips to help keep your houseplants alive and well, whether you’re using a moving company or not:
Pack houseplants with care
Moving company or not, packing your items to move is a crucial action you must take to keep your belongings safe in the moving truck.
Houseplants need special attention.
When packing your houseplants to move, protect the foliage by wrapping newspaper or specialized paper sleeves gently around the branches and leaves of the plant. Be sure not to squish them with too much pressure. You can also use thin plastic or foil for the same effect.
Inevitably, whenever anyone has moved in the history of moving, things shift around and rattle against each other in transport. Protect your plants from breaking their vases or pots by packing smaller potted plants tightly together. They may not like being so close to their brothers and sisters in the moving truck, but they’ll be much healthier when they reach their destination. For trees, crumple up some newspaper to pack at its base. Put a plastic bag over it to prevent loss of soil.
Keep your plants warm
You might already do this but think of your houseplants as people. If you transport them in a cold truck or expose them to the elements, they’ll suffer.
Ask your moving company to use an insulated or heated truck for your most sensitive plants. If at all possible, keep your plants in the middle of the truck. If you’re using your car, let it warm up before you put your houseplants inside.
Move fast
Of course, you want to get your moving done as quickly as possible. Hustling through your move is not only good for your mental health, it’s also good for your plants. The longer your plants sit on the curb or in the truck, especially in cold weather, the more they will be damaged.
Help your plants adjust
Just like pets, children, and adults, plants need time to adjust to their new surroundings to be truly happy and healthy.
One way to ease your houseplants into their new environment is to keep them in places with plenty of air and sunlight. If you transferred your plants from ceramic bowls or vases to protect them in plastic pots, wait a few days before transferring them back to their original vessels. Plants can be stressed by too many transplants.
Check plant regulations if you’re moving to a new state
Many states have strict regulations on which plants you’re allowed to bring from other states. Especially for outdoor plants, many states protect their soils and farmland by not allowing certain species of plants within their borders.
Some states require inspections of plants and soil. Some ban certain plants altogether and even confiscate certain plants at their borders. Make sure you’re within these regulations when moving plants from one state to another.
Contact Mountain Moving
We hope these moving tips were helpful for planning your next big move. If you’re using a moving company, make sure their personnel knows these tips. If you’re looking for a moving company, give us a call at 970-454-3362.
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