There are lots of options for moving depending on your budget and your tolerance for stress. First, hire professional furniture movers and let them do everything. Second, go full DIY, hire a truck, pack and shift everything yourself. Finally, do a mix of the two. Even if you are a DIY dynamo, here are five reasons to consider using the pros when you move.
If you follow our blog, you’ll already know about many of the pitfalls of managing a move yourself, such as stress, risk of injury, damage to your belongings and other hazards. If you drop a box, you wear the cost. If you injure yourself halfway through the job, who’s going to finish it off?
Let’s look at those five reasons to hire the pros.
1. Professional packing and insurance
Professionals have the packing skills, experience and materials to pack your belongings securely. However, no move is guaranteed free from damages as even an unexpected bump on the road can send a shock through the truck. But if you’ve used the pros, you’ll have insurance to cover those unexpected hiccups.
2. Heavy and large objects
Chances are the largest and heaviest objects in your house will also be amongst the most valuable. You may also own items that are heavy and awkward to move, like gym equipment, freestanding wardrobes, shelves and drawers. Not only are they hard to move, which presents a risk of injury, if you scrape a wall or scuff the floor, you’re in for some repair bills. Pros have the equipment and experience to move these large items safely.
3. Fragile collectables
Do you own any art or do you collect antiques? Do you have your great grandmother’s tea set, or her collection of fine crystal? Nobody wants to consider the consequences of dropping the box containing these valuables on the driveway, as they’re probably irreplaceable. However, as above, professional packing and insurance is the next best option. Professional movers also have speciality boxes for pictures, mirrors, sculptures and other large objects.
4. Beds and sofas
The Hollies weren’t singing about moving house when they wrote that iconic tune, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Sofa. Your innocent-looking soft furniture may not weigh a tonne, but have you tried getting it on and off a truck? Moving it across the room in a straight line is an easy operation. Moving it onto a truck is a lot trickier. Then you have to do the whole exercise again in reverse. The pros move sofas every day. That saves you a lot of time and stress.
5. Your beloved piano
The average freestanding piano weighs between 200 to 400 kilograms. They aren’t designed to be carried about the place and aren’t evenly balanced with the distribution of that weight. Are you willing to put your back on the line to do it yourself? One slip and you’ll have a musical mess.
Those are just a few of the reasons why it’s worth hiring professional furniture movers when you move house. You might be surprised just how affordable it is too. But if you still want to do parts of the move yourself, we absolutely encourage you to do so. Everyone is entitled to pack their own socks.
