What's a Wardrobe Box?

It's 9 days till Christmas! Whew! We here at Fairprice Movers Inc. hope you're all doing well, surviving the Holiday crowds, and getting that last minute shopping done=)

In the meantime I thought I'd share a short but helpful article on wardrobe boxes.

Movers include wardrobe boxes for free use during the move.

They are about 2.5' wide, and about 4' tall, and can hold about 20-30 pieces of clothing inside depending on their bulkiness, hanging up on a bar that crosses the inside of the box.

They save you from having to move hanging clothes by laying them in your car, the hangers tangling, items of clothing escaping from their hangers and slipping off, some even falling onto the floor as you carry them from place to place.

A lot of customers ask me if we drop them off early to your home so you can fill them. The process is this, when the men arrive to your home, while the Foreman in charge completes a home walkthrough and plans out the move with you, and completes paperwork, the men working with him will pop up the wardrobe boxes first in front of each closet that needs them. Then while the men are disassembling furniture, wrapping it up for transport, placing it on the truck, and moving boxes into the truck as well, you can carefully place your clothes into the wardrobe boxes. The boxes will then be placed into the truck last, and taken off the truck first at the new place so you can work on putting the clothes into their new closets while the men work on unloading the rest of the truck.

Hopefully this helps clear up any wardrobe box confusion!

Warm Regards,

Nancy

How To Safely Move A TV

Most of us own beautiful, expensive, flat screen TVs.

TVs are not just our most used, and favorite electrical appliance in most of our homes, but because of their price, are somewhat of an investment as well, and something we'd be upset to break, and don't want to afford to replace.

So you ask, how do you move your TV safely?

The first question I ask my clients is if they still have the original box. Maybe 2% of us really did safe that ominously huge box in our garage, and those 2% are the ones who are smart! So, if you are just buying a TV, please save the box! Engineers at the manufacturer spent countless hours creating this box especially for your TV, so what better to protect it than the original box?!

Ok, ok, so you didn't save your box (neither did I), so now what? Here are some options:

1.Movers like Fairprice Movers Inc., can wrap your TV in free padded blankets, place in your vehicle, and take back out free of charge, granted the TV fits in your car...

2.Movers can use a TV box to protect your TV with some padding inside, I'd suggest going out to buy one to specially fit your TV, as movers aren't always going to have that size readily available on their truck

3.Movers can "crate" your TV for you, the process does cost money, let's say $30-50/each, they wrap the TV with padded blankets, a layer of bubble wrap, a layer of cardboard, shrink wrap and tape to hold it all together, "crating" it like an egg crate to protect the TV's delicate screen

I hope this was helpful!

Warmest Regards,

Nancy

Do I Have To Empty My Dressers?

 

 

 

Hi Everyone! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and Hannukah!

 

Today's blog is a short one, but a good one.

 

One of the top questions I get asked on a daily basis from our great clients here at Fairprice Movers Inc., is "Do we have to empty our dressers?".

 

Generally speaking it's best when moving any piece of furniture with drawers to empty them. The reason? For the safety of the men, their surroundings while carrying a heavy piece of furniture, and to protect the tracks of your drawers from breaking under the pressure of weight from fully loaded drawers.

 

I usually say the rule of thumb to decide if you should or should not empty the dresser drawers is stairs. If you have the dresser going up or down, or both up and down, flights of stairs during your move, empty them. When a full dresser is tilted to be moved up and down stairs, it puts even more pressure on the tracks of your drawers, and makes it wayyy harder for the guys to  move gracefully.

 

If you don't have flights of stairs, or just a few entry steps, perhaps just take out the heavy pjs and sweaters, leaving underware and socks which are light, and we can shrink wrap the drawers to the dresser so that they don't bang around while the dresser is being moved.

 

Hopefully this helps!

 

See you soon for more tips on moving like a pro!

 

Warmest Regards,

Nancy and Team