Packing and moving of household furniture like bed, sofa set, wooden dining table with glass top, wooden chairs, heavy central table with glass top is not easy. Especially when you decide to pack and move household furniture of your own without hiring a Packers and Movers company. There are many advantages of hiring a professionally trained and well equipped packers and movers company to move household furniture safely. But that’s not the only option you have, in fact with right kind of tools and access to labors, you can relocate your furniture without hiring a movers and packers as well.
If you are willing to learn and trying to experiment then you can obviously pack and move all of your furniture along with other household goods of your own. Even if some of these furniture like cupboard, steel almirah etc is heavy and can’t be moved alone, if you have some sort of support available from other family members, you may like to do it all without hiring packers and movers. Even if hiring a mover is always better than taking all this stress, with just a little bit of planning and preparation, you should be able to do it quite comfortably.
Here in this post I am going to help you get it right in several steps. While you read this post, just make sure that you simply take these ideas and then perform the task as per your convenience because I really don’t know how heavy is your cupboard and how much of weight you can handle. Jokes apart, let us get back to the point. Are you ready to lean the tips and techniques of moving household furniture now? OK, here we go.
Planning and Preparation are the keywords in furniture shifting
So first all, you should identify all of your furniture that is to be packed and moved. Once identified and you have the list on the table, start vacating each of such furniture like dressing table, wardrobe or cupboards, remove cover etc from the sofa set. I am sure you get the point, all we are trying to do is clean everything and start preparing your furniture and yourself to move to the next step.
Next step is to create space and proper passage so that you can start packing or moving these furniture. Ideally you should clear the passage and use central seating area or a room where you have enough space for packing etc.
You should also buy some packing materials like ropes, tapes, card board box of various size, card board sheets for wrapping glass tops among other items.
Disassemble Large Furniture
Obviously, old wooden furniture may not be disassembled, but if it can be then that’s a huge plus and a lot of your headache will be gone in no time. So identify those furniture that can be disassembled and start the process when you are ready. Disassembling will help you break it into smaller size which can be packed and handled quite comfortably.
But for all other household furniture which cannot be disassembled, you have to protect their corners or legs by properly wrapping them with card board sheet or similar packing materials that can protect it from scratches.
Packing and Wrapping
Not all furniture require packing, but for sure there are table tops or mirror etc in your dressing table which require good quality packing before moving. So when you are done with disassembling you should wrap every component that you think may get scratched or damaged during transportation. Even if you feel there is little chance of scratch, you should wrap it well with packing card board or any other materials suitable for the purpose.
Lifting and loading your Furniture on to the Truck
You ought to protect yourself and that’s really important because out of excitement, you may try to lift heavy weight furniture like a three door cupboard, or a king size bed (deewan). But trust me, it’s not that easy, so relax and get support from someone like a family or a friend. While lifting larger size furniture, always make sure to keep it down horizontally and then lift it from both end, obviously it requires two people and can’t be done all alone.
You may also try to slide heavy weight furniture slowly, but that’s mostly not advised because no matter how much precaution you take, there is high chance of scratch. But still if you have to slide then in that case do it very cautiously ad use required equipments and accessories like clothes, slider or lifter etc. so for example if you want to slide a heavy couch then you can simply put the sliders under each of the legs and slide it.
Do proper cushioning on the floor of the moving truck before you start loading. When loading, you need to make sure that it’s loaded properly and tied correctly with ropes.
Over to you
Packing and shifting is a tedious thing and especially when you are doing of your own. So just be practical, don’t over work and have proper plan in place. Pack as per your schedule, find a trucking company to hire a truck and get going. Whatever be the situation, just be practical and pay attention to detail and everything should fall in place.
If you are moved your furniture from one home to a different home in same or different city then we would love to hear from you. If you have any tips and ideas, feel free to bring it on.
