How To Pack Your Bedroom For Moving
Supplies:
- Heavy duty boxes with flaps so that they close completely for moving and can be easily taped close to prevent things from spilling out.
- Packing paper such as old newspapers to pad the items and protect them from damage. You can also use old plastic bags, pillow cases, and bubblewrap.
- Good, strong packaging tape for sealing the boxes shut so that nothing can spill out of a box should it tip over.
- A new permanent marker to label where each box which room it belongs in for making unpacking easier. You should make sure to have multiple markers if you have a large selection of items.
Top Rated Moving Services usually have these products for sale for their customers to purchase to make it easier for you to get your hands on them. There are items that are large and heavy in your bedroom, which can be harder to pack away or cannot be packed away. You also have light and soft items that need to be packed, and you will most likely need a lot of boxes. To make packing easier, you should follow these easy packing tips for moving any and all items that can be found in your room.
Packing Clothing and Linens
If possible, you should get wardrobe boxes to hang clothes in, especially any of your nicer clothes to prevent them from being wrinkled. They are easy to use and easy to transport from one place to the other. This will help to reduce wrinkles that can be caused by folding them into a box. Each box will accommodate around 2 feet of compressed clothing on their hangers, which means you can pack a lot into one box.
If you are unable to get wardrobe boxes, you will want to remove each article of clothing from the hanger and neatly fold them. It is a good idea to put the clothing in either a suitcase or box that is lined with packing paper. This will help to protect the clothing from dust. If you can, you should fold the clothing to fit the size of the box to prevent any clothes from being laid on its side or falling over within the box.
Boxes that are lined with packing paper will help protect your linens, such as blankets, sheets, pillowcases, and towels. This will work for bed pillows too. You just need to make sure you use packing paper and not newspaper because the ink on the paper can wear off onto your linens.
Small Appliances
Each clock and radio should be wrapped individually, and you need to make sure they are firmly wrapped to better protect them from breaking. You should then pack them in a box that is filled with crumpled paper to prevent them from moving around too much in the transportation process. This will help to protect the items from damage, and if you are worried about an antique piece, it is advised to get bubblewrap for extra protection.
Books and photographs
When packing books, you should place them spine down and open side up. This is so that the spine is protected from being broken down in the process of moving.
It is a good idea to pack books in smaller size boxes. This way the boxes will not be too heavy to pick up and carry. If may sound odd to say books are heavy because a single book or even a couple are easy to move, but when there are a good deal placed into one box, their weight can add up fast. If you have a lot of hardback books, make sure you place very few into one box at a time. It will help protect the books from being smashed during the process of moving, but you should mark them as fragile anyways to prevent heavy things from being sat on top of them.
To protect framed photos and artwork, you should wrap each piece individually with packing paper or bubble wrap. If you cannot get your hands on either of these, some people use plastic bags you get from a grocery store to wrap their fragiles. Then you place them in the box with them standing on their edge. By putting them on their edge, it will protect them from the glass getting broken and give you more room in the box.
Whenever possible carry family heirlooms and irreplaceable pictures with you to the new residence by simply placing them into your own car. This way you know that they are protected and will not get lost in the move.
It is a good idea to pack all boxes tightly so items do not move around in the box. If necessary, you can use crumpled packing paper to finish filling the box, which can help you keep the weight of the box down while still preventing the items within from moving around too much. You should always make sure that the box is full so the items do not have the chance of moving around in the box but never weigh the box too much because it will effect the ability to move it.
Bed
Top Rated Moving Services can supply many resources & tips to make your move as smooth as possible, getting a special carton for the mattress from your bed will help protect the mattress from getting dust, dirt on it, and possibly even getting damaged. A mattress can be something that is hard to move around because of the size of it. A lot of people think they have to move the mattress without protecting it, but this is not true at all. If you transport it out of a box, it risk it being ripped or getting covered with dust and debris. You do not want to sleep on a dirty mattress after you have moved into your new place. You can read more how to move How To Move Bed, Beddings & Linens.
