How do professional home movers handle packages to minimise accidents?
Moving home can be one of life’s biggest and most frequently overlooked challenges. Minimising any unnecessary incidents should be a priority for everyone, and that especially applies to accidental damage to your belongings.
If you choose to use a removals team to help with the packing and moving process, then you’ll largely be placing this responsibility in their hands. What exactly do they do to minimise these incidents, though?
Proper packing materials
One of the most important parts of this process is to use proper packing materials. What these are exactly will differ a little depending on what it is that’s being packed, but it will likely include strong, double or triple-walled cardboard boxes, form padding, lots of bubble wrap, and more heavy-duty moving blankets.
More vulnerable items like glassware and electronics will require more attention, being both individually wrapped and placed in boxes where they won’t move around too much. Larger items will also need to be packed in the van properly, with protection and straps to ensure they don’t move around during transit.
Proper labelling
Labelling is important when it comes to organisation, but also to prevent accidents. Recording the contents of the box and adding labels indicating weight, box directionality and of course the fragility of the contents can all help to ensure that each box is handled with adequate care.
These labels also help to ensure that the boxes are distributed properly when they’re being stacked in moving vehicles and in the new property. Placing heavier, bulkier boxes at the bottom and lighter ones at the top prevents excessive crushing of boxes, and makes them a lot more stable.
Trained moving teams
A big difference between amateurs and experienced removals teams like Redpath is how they’re trained to actually move items. Knowing when more than one person is required, or when to use some specialist equipment, can reduce injury and accidental damage.
With more delicate and precarious items, like musical instruments and larger computers and televisions, this is doubly important, and can make a big difference to the outcome of your move.
Insurance
Of course, accidents do happen, and it is imperative that your removal team has adequate insurance policies in place. Most registered removers have at least a basic policy in place to cover these kinds of incidents, but if you have particularly valuable items that are involved in the move, it could be worth adding an additional policy.
In many cases, you’ll be able to add this via your home insurance. It’s also worth checking how different policies might interact, so that you don’t end up with multiple insurers saying that it’s not their problem.
Choosing the right removals team is important not only to increase the convenience of your move, but also to keep your belongings safe. Make sure that you check how the provider you’re considering takes care of these kinds of safety issues, so that you can identify and use a reputable firm that gives you true peace of mind.
