Moving Tips
Tell packers and/or driver about fragile or precious items.
Make a final check of the entire house - basement, closets, shelves, attic, garage, every room.
Approve and sign Bill of Lading; if possible accompany driver to the weigh station.
Double check with driver to make certain moving company records show the proper delivery address for your new house. Verify the scheduled delivery date, too.
Give driver phone numbers both here and in new community to contact you in case of a problem.
Get complete routing information form the driver and phone numbers so you can call the driver or company while route.
Disconnect all utilities and advise the real estate agent who sold or is selling your house.
Lock all doors and windows. Advise your real estate agent and neighbours that the house is empty.
Each carton has to be sealed securely with packing tape.
Remember to mark cartons for fragile items clearly and inform movers to be careful.
Use only strong, corrugated cartons with covers.
Use small boxes for the heaviest items such as books.
Label all cartons with markers for identifying their basic contents and their designated rooms.
Save old newspapers for use in packing, but remember ink from newspaper may be messy at times.
Generally, self packing will take about 2 weeks to complete. Start your packing as early as possible.
Be sure all items are well padded and use old newspaper to fill empty space inside cartons.
Well, Moving day is a hectic day as well as the busiest day, from managing everything to packing everything is a tough task. So by follow, these tips can help you to get a better relocation experience.
- Check all the products and count them.
- Paste the stickers on the cartoon so that at the time of unpacking it can get in its right place. Make sure that the gas stove and everything are well packed, cook everything before moving. Check out the rooms and the house before leaving, if anything is not left or packed. Make sure to collect all the documents like bill receipts, insurance papers, and everything.
- Taking everything into account, packers, and movers gives you all the facilities at a very reasonable cost. It makes your relocation easy and stress-free. It gives you full security and insurance policy. Highly skilled professional movers and packers that will make you believe in them.
- So plan and work accordingly and make sure to take all the documents and papers with you. Remember to place all your items in an organized way so that at the time of unpacking you feel little stress and have a fun shifting.
Some of the things you should remember like what things to carry with yourself or not.
- Cash - You should carry your cash with yourself, do not keep in the movers and packers boxes.
- Jewellery - Keep your jewellery and important precious things of gold and silver with you.
- Documents - Keep every document safely with you that include everything of the home bills, electricity bills, insurance papers, security and deposit money bill of the movers and packers company.
At last but not the least some important things you should remember while moving to a new place and while hiring packers and movers professional.
Here some question that is asked by our customers as follow:-
- How to pack perishable food products during relocation?
- TrueWay Packers and Movers will advise not to pack perishable food. But if you have lot of perishable food in your fridge, then some essential precautions need to be taken while packing. You must empty the cartons of juices, milk and ketchup bottles. Also, if any food item is not opened then it can be easily transported.
Packers & Movers Tips
The Most of the people / employees moved Household Goods / Vehicle from one city to another, and used a some of them used professional Packers and Movers or used local Packers and Movers. Here are some tips and tricks are mentioned below.
Evaluation of Packers and Movers Company
While evaluating the Packers and Movers, ensure they see all articles to be moved, which helps them guess the height of the Truck / Vehicle / Container required.
If possible insist on a separate truck for your items, so each and every item delivery can happen. This reduces delays as well as mix-up of your items with other consignments.
Typical Components of the Cost Sheet
- Packing
- Loading
- Transportation
- Unloading
- Unpacking
- Insurance
- Service Charge
Insurance claims are entertained only in case of extreme unforeseen damages, e.g., the truck getting into an accident. Insurance claims are not accepted in case damage happens during regular shifting like loading/unloading. So don’t compromise on the quality of the packer and mover, by buying insurance for the goods.
Before the Day of Packing
Pack personal items like Clothes, cosmetics, and other delicate items by yourself.
Pack the one or two bags that you would carry with yourself. Consider placing below most valuables in the bag that must travel with you:
- Jewellery
- Cash
- Certificates, Passports, Keys, Licenses and Sentimental item etc.
- Any other light weight material of high value or high cost of replacing.
Dispose all items that you wish to discard. Otherwise on the day of frantic packing, they will get packed.
On the Day of Shifting
Consider 5-6 hours of total packing and loading time for a typical 2 BHK, using 3-4 personnel.
The Packers will bring along with them: Boxes, Brown paper rolls, Sticky Tapes, Bubble wrap rolls, screwdrivers etc.
If you have the original box for the TV or the Fridge, they may not be of much use. But if you have the original thermacol packing of these items, they are useful otherwise Professional Packers like Agarwal Packers and Movers DRS Group is have separate packing boxes for TV Or Fridge ,AC etc.
Appoint an area in your house for junk that you want to dispose Instruct the Packers and movers clearly not to pack articles kept in that area.
Appoint a separate area for articles that you want to carry along with yourself. Instruct the Packers and movers clearly not to pack articles kept in that area.
Keep colored stickers or numbers and write a sketch with names to be pasted on the boxes. Color codes each room in the new place. If color code E.g., all boxes to go into kitchen, to have green sticker.
For furniture that is being dissembled, create a single small box to hold all the nuts and bolts. If the packer has a method of storing it (e.g., in the last box that is packed), make note of it.
The packers will be very energetic with the first hour of packing, their stamina going down gradually. Plan for some Chai or snacks Cool drink for them.
Towards the end, they may try to load some articles without packing or wrapping them up (e.g., a coffee table). Do not allow this, insist on wrapping or packing everything.
In Transit
Take the phone number of the vehicle. The vehicle Driver may not be an employee of the Packers and Movers Company and may contact you directly for any queries in transit.
In case they threaten delaying of delivery, do not succumb. The Mover loses Thousands of rupees each day that he holds a delivery since the truck goes unused or godown space is taken up. they would like to drop the goods at the destination as quickly as possible.
On Delivery
If the unpacking or unloading of goods, assembling of furniture was included in the Estimate, do not leave the Movers go until they do it. We will come tomorrow and do it. Give them an espresso shot and get the job done, with Movers, tomorrow never comes.
It is possible that the vehicle Driver may collect the entire remaining amount. Try to hold some payment until all the unpacking and assembling of furniture is done.
