You have decided to relocate. Now, how to move furniture?
After your move, you have decided to relax in your newly decorated and settled living room. It is a cozy night, and you are quite exhausted, so you put your favorite team’s football game on TV. Just as the team is about to score, your TV suddenly unclutches from its brackets and dismantles from the wall. All you have left is a half-broken TV and a lot of cleaning up to do and on top of all this, you missed the best moment in the game! However, this should not have come off as a surprise since you’ve decided to move your furniture by yourself and neglected the last touch-ups to make sure of the safety of mantling and assembling your furniture.
One of the most important and key blocks of moving a house is the displacement of the furniture. Although it is a complex step in moving, it can be boiled down to the two actions of disassembly and transportation. To avoid situations like the one above, we have gathered a few tips and an overall look into furniture moving safely and correctly.
There are lots of different kinds of furniture including small, big, delicate, expensive, and furniture with a sentimental value to its owner. Being especially careful with such furniture is the priority of The Easy Move. To ensure the highest quality of moving and preventing any sort of injuries, our employees are always prepared beforehand by completing stretching routines to warm up their bodies and even hit the gym. So, what are the specifics?
Disassembling
The smartest way of moving furniture is to disassemble it in the first place. Lucky for you, a majority of furniture pieces allow you to do this or at least make it easier to fold them. Usually, any piece of furniture with legs is attached to the main body by removable brackets which can be easily separated. Our request from you is simply not to carry the heavy furniture as whole thinking that it would save time. Usually, it does not save time but on the contrary, it can even waste time since it might result in small-scale injuries. Disassembling furniture takes up the effort and professionalism of at least two people for a safe transfer. We would also advise you to make use of an extra layer of protective material such as bubble wrap, moving pads, shrink-wraps, even a thick blanket, etc. This is particularly important for delicate furniture or any other furniture with sentimental value.
Furniture Moving Specifics
To make the process clearer, The Easy Move moves furniture from apartments or houses, most of the time. If there is a spacious elevator present in the apartment building it becomes especially simple to move the furniture, but whenever this is not the case, we prefer to use a truck or a car lift if there is a parking spot available. And with the last option, our skilled employees use the stairs and carry the pieces on their backs.
In the case of a house, there are slight differences with the transfer. Disassembling of the furniture has to be carried out nearly all the time while moving so that it could fit much easier from the stairs without damaging the pieces. If the furniture pieces are too large to fit through the stairs, then we opt to use the windows if possible. Reassembly of the furniture occurs in the living and bedrooms where most of the furniture is brought to.
Our Furniture Related Services
Transport Furniture
Have you purchased a new furniture piece from a store such as IKEA or thrift shops? Awesome news! We are more than happy to help you transfer the new goodies to your new place and even offer to assemble them.
International Moving
There are cases where our customers are moving internationally. Being extra cautious during such moves is the priority for our employees since the route is a long haul and the pieces are much more prone to a scratch or minor damage. That is why we prefer to use extra protective layers of material to wrap the furniture pieces up and use a huge truck if necessary. The key to a safe journey is loading the vehicle we are using very strategically so that the equipment does not slip, and slide left to right.
Disposal Services
If you have any old pieces of furniture lying around in your garage that you do not use anymore and you want to get rid of it, just give us a call. Our employees will pick it up and dispose of it for you.
Design Decision Roles
The most enjoyable part of being a moving company is being able to feel like an interior design consultant whenever our customers move to their new places. You can always ask for our recommendation on how and where to place your furniture. Trust us, our employees equip the vehicles strategically thus they are quite good at optimizing up free space and showing how to arrange your furniture pieces depending on your needs whether it is the aesthetics or the ease of use.
Moving and Assembly furniture services for B2B
Easy Move does not only offer its assembly services to regular customers but also businesses. If you are a business and want to switch up the style in your office, our employees are more than happy to help you assemble, transfer, and reassemble the furniture pieces.
Tips to Move Furniture Around
In a case where you want to move your furniture pieces yourself, here are some tips we have collected from experience for you:
- Always make it a two men’s job
- Carry tall and large items upside down (high and low)
- “Hook” things (such as chairs or a sofa) around the corner
- Protect the furniture with relevant material
- Disassemble the big/heavy things into small pieces
- Always make sure that you know where the furniture piece will land and be cautious of your fingers and hands
- Get equipped with materials such as Dollies, Gloves, Moving straps, Sliders, Ramps, protective material, etc.
