Furniture Movers Tips For Protecting Your Valuables During A Move

When it comes to a move, most of your belongings can be safely packed and transported in boxes. Moving your furniture and valuables, on the other hand, needs to be carefully considered.

Let’s face it, items such as your lounge suite, dining table, and priceless antiques are what make your new home feel like a home. Your most valuable items must make it safety to their destination. In this article, we offer proactive steps to ensure your valuables are protected during a move and explain how using trusted furniture movers will ensure their maximum safety.

1. Compile A Detailed Inventory

The first step to protecting your valuables is to create a detailed inventory, as this will ensure that all your valuable items are accounted for. Your inventory should include items such as antiques, art pieces, jewelry, electronics, and important documents such as passports. It’s best to go through each room in your house and add valuable items to a list as you come across them.

The good news is that a reputable moving service should help you compile a detailed checklist, which will include a valuables inventory.

2. Decide On What Items Don’t Leave Your Side

Certain valuable items should stay with you throughout the move. It’s best to make allowance for those smaller, irreplaceable items, including:

• Expensive Jewelry
• Medication
• Portable electronic devices
• Important documents

These items can be packed in a labeled box or a bag and should be kept close to you through the move. You may want to consider keeping these in a locked vehicle or with you in your carry-on luggage if you’re flying.

3. Pack Boxes With Care

Packing your valuables with maximum protection in mind is one of the most important precautions you can take. High-value items will require more than just being boxed with newspaper. We recommend you follow these steps to ensure the most protective packaging possible.

Double-Walled Boxes

Double-walled boxes offer superior protection over standard boxes. They allow for extra cushioning, high impact tolerance, and also allow for higher stacking.

Bubble Wrap

Bubble wrap helps to protect more fragile items against shocks and drops. The lightweight material insulates your items and keeps them snug and secure. Bubble wrap is also water-resistant and recyclable.

Custom Boxing And Crating

Abnormally sized items may require a custom-sized box or crate for transportation. This is where choosing professional furniture movers offers a significant benefit. Not only are they experienced in packaging all valuable items, but they also have access to the correct packaging items needed. If you choose to do some of the packing yourself, it’s best to acquire the correct packing supplies from your mover.

4. Safeguard Your Artwork And Mirrors

Valuable artwork requires a different approach to secure it effectively. Any framed art pieces or mirrors should be cross-taped. This is done by applying two strips of professional tape across the glass. In the unfortunate event that the glass breaks, it will be held together, preventing any damage to your artwork. Cardboard or foam corner protectors should also be used for all pieces to protect the frame. Your most high-value art pieces should be packaged in art boxes that are custom-made to the exact size of your artwork. Finally, all pieces should be bubble-wrapped.

5. Prioritize Collectible Items

Extra care should be taken when packing fragile items such as china or crystal collections. Each piece should be wrapped individually in several layers of bubble wrap or paper. Boxes should be insulated with paper before packing plates on top. Plates are best packed vertically as opposed to flat, as this allows for better shock resistance.

Finally, any gaps should be filled with paper or bubble wrap. Experienced furniture movers will ensure to mark all collectible boxes with fragile labels to ensure their safe removal.

6. Protect Large-Sized Valuables

Larger items can be prone to damage in the moving process, with particular risk to heavy and edged items. One bump on a wall could cause irreparable damage to a piece of antique furniture.

Professional movers will make sure to use specialized moving aids, including furniture sliders, pads, and blankets, to add additional buffering to larger items. Bubble wrap also offers an extra layer of protection for those more fragile items. Remember that entrusting your larger valuables to a reputable mover significantly reduces the risk of damage.

The combination of experience with the use of professional moving aids will ensure that oversized items are removed carefully with adequate protection. Remember that your mover knows how to maneuver items through tight spaces safely.

7. Insist On A Licensed And Insured Mover

By using experienced furniture movers, you’re mitigating against damage risk. Ensuring that your mover is licensed and insured adds that complete peace of mind if anything were to happen. Allegiance Van Lines, LLC is registered with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and possesses a department-issued USDOT number. We also offer comprehensive insurance on our moves to give you peace of mind throughout the moving process.

Protect Your Valuables With Reputable Movers

At Allegiance Van Lines, we understand the daunting task of moving your most valuable items and the associated risk that comes with this. We pride ourselves on a combined experience of over 20 years of successful moves nationwide.

We offer several services to help ensure your valuables are well protected, including:

• Assistance in developing a moving checklist
• Visual Surveys before estimation
• Licensed and insured
• Comprehensive packing services
• Full-service moving and storage
• Full range of moving supplies

Allegiance Van Lines: Your Local Furniture Movers

Choosing us with your valuable items is not a decision we take lightly, which is why we plan comprehensively ahead of your move. Our up-front visual survey and moving checklist service will ensure your whole moving process is well planned and prepared for.

Call our Pompano Beach Allegiance team at (561) 210-5120 to ensure your valuables are professionally moved.