Tips & Tricks When it’s Come to Moving Task In Gold Coast
Moving is always stressful. But you can minimise the stress with organisation and planning. Here are 10 tried and true tips for making the process easier. Moving is always stressful. But you can minimise the stress with organisation and planning. Here are 10 tried and true tips for making the process easier.
2. Get measurements for the new place Few things are more stressful than realising your cherished family heirloom won't fit in your new living room. Try and schedule a pre-move visit to get accurate measurements of the main rooms. Also measure the width of the entrance doors, so you know what will (and won't) fit through them. 3. Weigh up using a removalist If you've got lots of massive furniture, a bad back or an interstate move planned, then using a professional makes sense. If you have a lot fewer possessions or are only moving a short distance, then hiring a truck and doing it yourself can make sense. There's no absolute rule; just consider your circumstances. Make sure you get quotes from multiple removalists if you do go down that path. If you hire a truck to drive yourself, take photos with your camera before you use it to avoid insurance arguments over any pre-existing dings. 4. Tell your neighbours your moving date As well as providing them with advance warning that there'll be large trucks about, there can be other benefits: they might volunteer to help, or offer to let you make coffee at their place while the moving is happening. 5. Box everything you can up Using boxes makes life much simpler and means you can carry more on each trip. You can buy packs of 10 archive boxes for about $20 at chain stores, or hit up bookstores for particularly tough boxes. When in doubt, use extra packing tape on the base of boxes to avoid unwanted splitting incidents. For really heavy items (like old-school vinyl LPs), plastic crates can be a better bet. 6. Don't use boxes or bags that are too large Sure, it can be tempting to throw the entire contents of your wardrobe into a jute bag and lug it to the new place. But if the bag is too large, it will weigh too much, you'll struggle to move it and it will probably tear in the process. Better to have two small bags than one large one. 7. Label boxes with their destination, not just their contents With luck, you'll have friends and family helping out with the move. That will work much more smoothly if each box is tagged with its destination in the new home. This is especially important if the new place is larger than the old one.
8. Keep cables and devices together You don't want to have your DVD player in one box and the cables to connect it up somewhere else entirely. Electronic gear often goes in the "I'll move it myself in the back of the car" category; in that case, bag up the cables together after labelling them with masking tape or bread tags, so you can easily reconnect them at your destination. 9. Have a disposal plan for your boxes At the end of the process, you're going to have a lot of leftover boxes, so make sure you've got a plan for them. If you've got storage space, you can keep them and offer them to the next friend that moves. If not, a quick drive to the nearest recycling centre may be indicated. 10. Something will always go wrong No matter how much planning you do, something will stuff up. Despite scheduling everything in advance and only moving 600 metres away, Telstra spectacularly failed in connecting any services whatsoever for my friends over the weekend and had no idea of when anything would actually happen. (Telstra likes making noise about taking customer service seriously but this experience suggests it has a long way to go in that department.) Similarly, a promised delivery of new furniture shifted from "definitely on Saturday" to "we have no idea when". These irritations will happen. Don't let them ruin the whole experience. 21 TIPS FOR AN EASY MOVE Let's face it: Unless you're a minimalist, moving is one of the biggest household tasks there is and it can be extremely overwhelming. But if you can get a head start and stay organized, you should make it through this mammoth process unscathed and ready to enjoy your new abode. Here are 21 tips to help you avoid moving day chaos.
- Page 1: Tips & Tricks: When it’s Come to
- Page 5 and 6: • In general, the contents of bac
- Page 7 and 8: throw them out on moving day. 18 Ho
- Page 9 and 10: Look for previous testimonials and
- Page 11 and 12: problems. Maybe return to your task
- Page 13 and 14: Select a company and get written co
- Page 15 and 16: Make sure that the moving truck tha
- Page 17: take care of everything from packin
2. Get measurements for the new place<br />
Few things are more stressful than realising your cherished family heirloom won't fit in your new<br />
living room. Try and schedule a pre-move visit <strong>to</strong> get accurate measurements of the main rooms.<br />
Also measure the width of the entrance doors, so you know what will (and won't) fit through them.<br />
3. Weigh up using a removalist<br />
If you've got lots of massive furniture, a bad back or an interstate move planned, then using a<br />
professional makes sense. If you have a lot fewer possessions or are only moving a short distance,<br />
then hiring a truck and doing it yourself can make sense. There's no absolute rule; just consider<br />
your circumstances. Make sure you get quotes from multiple removalists if you do go down that<br />
path. If you hire a truck <strong>to</strong> drive yourself, take pho<strong>to</strong>s with your camera before you use it <strong>to</strong> avoid<br />
insurance arguments over any pre-existing dings.<br />
4. Tell your neighbours your moving date<br />
As well as providing them with advance warning that there'll be large trucks about, there can be<br />
other benefits: they might volunteer <strong>to</strong> help, or offer <strong>to</strong> let you make coffee at their place while the<br />
moving is happening.<br />
5. Box everything you can up<br />
Using boxes makes life much simpler and means you can carry more on each trip. You can buy<br />
packs of 10 archive boxes for about $20 at chain s<strong>to</strong>res, or hit up books<strong>to</strong>res for particularly <strong>to</strong>ugh<br />
boxes. <strong>When</strong> in doubt, use extra packing tape on the base of boxes <strong>to</strong> avoid unwanted splitting<br />
incidents. For really heavy items (like old-school vinyl LPs), plastic crates can be a better bet.<br />
6. Don't use boxes or bags that are <strong>to</strong>o large<br />
Sure, it can be tempting <strong>to</strong> throw the entire contents of your wardrobe in<strong>to</strong> a jute bag and lug it <strong>to</strong><br />
the new place. But if the bag is <strong>to</strong>o large, it will weigh <strong>to</strong>o much, you'll struggle <strong>to</strong> move it and it<br />
will probably tear in the process. Better <strong>to</strong> have two small bags than one large one.<br />
7. Label boxes with their destination, not just their contents<br />
With luck, you'll have friends and family helping out with the move. That will work much more<br />
smoothly if each box is tagged with its destination in the new home. This is especially important if<br />
the new place is larger than the old one.
Change language