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Moving house should be a positive, exciting experience as you pack up your current property, ready to start a fresh chapter in a new home. Unfortunately, many people have endured a stressful moving experience, where they felt under immense pressure in the run-up to the move and on the moving day itself. However, moving home doesn’t need to be stressful. With the right preparation, you should be able to enjoy an organised move with none of the stress.
An organised house move starts with the way you pack. Focusing on packing efficiency can transform your house move. Here at Britannia Lanes Removals, we’ve helped thousands of customers to enjoy stress-free house moves. In this handy guide, we’ll share our moving tips to help you pack like a pro, avoid breakages, and ensure easy unpacking in your new home.
Start by Writing a Moving Checklist
Packing up an entire household can feel like an overwhelming task. So, writing a moving checklist is a helpful way to make packing for a move less daunting.
Your checklist should include all the packing materials that you need to get before you begin. It’s also helpful to write down a list of everything that needs to be packed, so that you can work through your checklist methodically and ensure nothing is forgotten.
Plan When You Will Pack
Having a moving checklist is an excellent way to plan an organised move. However, as well as listing what you are going to be packing, it’s also essential to plan when you will pack.
Packing for a stress-free move is all about timing. Packing on an ad-hoc basis without any logic can mean that you duplicate your efforts and are left in a panic come moving day to get everything in boxes.
Planning when you will pack is all about deciding which items you won’t need to use ahead of your move. Starting with packing seasonal items that you don’t use all year-round is a great place to begin. For example, if you’re moving in the summer, you may wish to pack up your Christmas decorations and winter clothing first, as you won’t need to use them before the move. You could even place these items in storage to get them out of the house, as this will mean that you have less boxes stacking up while you’re trying to pack the rest of the house.
Always save packing the items you use frequently until last. There’s nothing more frustrating than having to sort through a box that is already packed to find something you need. So, it’s helpful to avoid this by planning your packing carefully.
Choose the Correct Packaging Materials
Using the correct packaging materials is essential for packing efficiency. Often, people try to use boxes, packing materials, and tape that are unsuitable for a house move and not strong enough to withstand the moving process.
Using packaging materials that are designed for house moves is vital if you are to get all your items to your new home safely and securely. This is especially important for heavy and fragile items, so you should always ensure that your more delicate and high-value belongings are wrapped in a protective layer, like bubble wrap, to prevent damage in transit.
Always Label Boxes Clearly
Labelling your boxes clearly is vital to ensure a smooth house move. Choosing a thick, permanent marker with either black or dark blue ink is advisable to ensure that it is as easy to read as possible. Choosing ink that is waterproof and smudge-proof for your labelling is also essential.
Writing what is inside the box on the exterior and the room that it will go into in your new home will make moving day so much simpler. This will help you easily find items that you need. Labelling each side of the box will mean that no matter what angle the box is viewed from, you will easily be able to see which room it is for and what’s inside.
Don’t forget to buy some ‘fragile’ labels to add to boxes containing your most delicate items.
Pack with Easy Unpacking in Mind
Throwing everything into boxes and hoping for the best can make for a very stressful unpacking experience. So, it’s always best to pack with easy unpacking in mind.
Categorising items and packing them in boxes accordingly will make unpacking a much simpler process. Ensuring that each box is labelled with the name of the room where the items will be located in your new home is another way to make unpacking easier. This organised approach shouldn’t add too much time to your packing process, but will save lots of time when you start unpacking and settling into your new house.
Prepare an Essentials Box
Preparing a separate essentials box is vital for an easy move. These are the items you will need when you move into your new home, and won’t want to be searching through boxes to find.
Items to pack in your essentials box include:
- Important documents for your move.
- Phone chargers.
- Snacks and water bottles.
- Toiletries.
- Medication.
- Toilet roll.
Choose Britannia Lanes for an Organised Move
Trying to plan a house move, pack up your home and then transport it to your new house is never an easy task. For busy households, navigating a house move can bring extra stress to their already hectic lives. For this reason, many people choose to take the hassle out of moving by using professionals such as our team at Britannia Lanes Removals to ensure an organised move.
Our helpful team can take care of everything from packing your house ahead of your move to safely transporting your items to your new home on moving day, ensuring that moving house is a simple, hassle-free process. To make your move even easier, we can also supply packaging materials and have self storage units available to hire for your items so that they stay safe and out of the way for as long as needed.