How to Collect Boxes
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• How to Collect Boxes
• What You Need to Know About Packaging
• How to Package Kitchenware When Moving
• How to Package Your Bed When Moving
• How to Package Your Furniture When Moving
• How to Clean Your Home When Moving
Boxes are naturally among the first things you’ll need when moving… You can find very durable and versatile packaging materials in grocery stores and markets, white appliance and furniture stores. When passing by these stores, feel free to ask them if they have unused boxes. Especially styrofoam will be very useful to you to package white appliances. If you cannot find a box this way, you can go to a store which sells packaging products and get everything you need from there.
If you are keeping original boxes of your items, for instance your television, that will be of much use to you since it will provide the best protection. Do not forget the high chance that physically sensitive devices like televisions are prone to damage in long transport sessions. If transportation will take long you could need to take extra precautions. And at this point, having professional support will mitigate your risk.
What You Need to Know About Packaging
It is very important to package your items as separated into relevant categories. Wrapping fragile items with appropriate packaging material will protect them from bad surprises. When packaging your clothes, it will be very practical to separate them as summer and winter clothes. Then you can delay opening of some boxes in your new home, and you won’t find yourself in a chaos of boxes. In addition, writing clearly on the boxes what is inside helps speed up and facilitate the settling in.
How to Package Kitchenware When Moving
Kitchen is the nightmare for those who move house… Because it has the most fragile items. Kitchenware should be both carefully packed and handled with care. If you are going to do the packaging yourself, you need to take note of some tips. First of all, get a lot of newspapers or packaging papers. Having packaging nylons at the ready will also be useful. Place newspapers or filler nylons at the bottom of durable boxes. So you prevent fragile items from contacting the floor, as some protection against shock. Then separate dishes and pots using newspapers to fix all of them in the box in a way that they won’t tilt, and you’ll be mostly preventing bad surprises.
It is also important to avoid making boxes that are too heavy. Double-groove cardboard boxes can be useful at this point. If you are working with a transportation company you need to consider this too: They probably will not assume responsibility in cases of damage due to mispackaging. If the company does not do the packaging themselves, you will probably have to compensate for these damages yourself. For this reason, not sparing any efforts or costs during the packaging stage will be much more profitable for you.
How to Package Your Bed When Moving
It is among the most daunting transportation tasks to package your bed and move it to your new home. The most practical way will be to dismantle the bed and then transport it, as it will be too difficult to take it out of the house in its mounted state. It will be useful to wrap the beds with disposable stretch packages, and pack the bedhead and sides with filling nylon. When you move into your new home, you’ll then need to do the mounting works. If you feel that you may not be able to do the mounting and dismantling, a transportation company can do these for you.
How to Package Your Furniture When Moving
Nowadays many types of furniture is produced in factories using materials such as particle board and MDF. These materials are quite prone to damage from humidity and mounting/dismantling. So you need to take extra care for them. So to list the tips about it…
You’ll first need to remove the feet from your furniture. Because if they stay on, they’ll be subject to excess stress during transportation. Likewise, removing protrusions such as arms, ornaments and grips, where possible, will be useful. If your furniture can be dismantled, transporting it in a dismantled state will reduce the risks. The most ideal way to prevent furniture from getting dirty is to use stretch film. It is also very important to take off lids, shelves and glass pieces from furniture, or supporting them with cardboard boxes. Placing furniture on a blanket inside the transporting vehicle will prevent scratches. Corners of furniture are easily damaged, so you’ll need to protect those parts with cardboard boxes.
How to Clean Your Home When Moving
Of course, the process of moving isn’t limited to items being carried between houses. After all you’ll start living in a new home, and you will need to thoroughly clean the new one before moving into it. There are some details to take care of in this stage.
The first is if there is debris in the house, you will need to take them out before starting your cleaning works. Then you’ll get on with the bulk of the work once you hoover the dust and dirt and wipe the window glasses.
There’s also the balcony. Spraying water to the balcony with a hose will provide the best cleaning results.
Wiping the insides and outsides of kitchen cupboards and drawers using a humid microfiber cloth will be useful. Do not forget to wipe the tops and bottoms of the cupboards too. It is very important for you to be more careful with using kitchen cupboards for a sterile kitchen. After wiping the insides of the cupboards with vinegar or detergent water, you can leave them open to dry.
In addition to a detailed cleaning in the bathroom, which starts with the toilet, bathtub, and sink, you can consider cleaning the walls with a brush using ceramic cleaner chemicals. Do not forget to wipe the insides of bathroom cabinets and the bathroom mirror.
And a note: Leaving your former house clean during the moving process will make it easier for those who will move into it and make everyone’s job easier.
The most important of all: Feel Free to Ask For Help!
Feel free to ask for help from people close to you in this difficult and tiring time. It will save your life to get help from your friends with experience and skills about moving houses. In addition, during the moving process you should take care to keep your spirits up, be prepared for and stay calm in the face of possible mishaps and accidents, and not to give sudden and harsh reactions to the people beside you, your family or friends. Do not forget that this is difficult for everybody, but those who are likely to spend comparatively more time in this house will make the best efforts to help you.
Important Warning: Health Comes First!
We cannot understate how important not neglecting your health is during the moving process. It is very important that you do not injure your back or waist by lifting heavy things or doing an unexpected movement, do not sweat too much, and do not catch a cold by staying in the draft. Add to that not cutting yourself up during packing. Therefore it is critical that you keep a first aid kit within reach.