The 5 phases of a move and advice on guidelines to follow.
by All Around Moving Services Company Inc All Around Moving Services Company IncIn this post we tell you about the 5 phases of a
move and we give you advice on guidelines to follow when planning and
organizing yours, so that you can do it with the least possible stress, with
the least wear and tear and at the best price.
And finally,
we present our Complete Moving Plan, for those who do not have time to take
care of all these tasks. A plan specially designed so that you don't have to do
almost anything.
Behind a whole move there is much more work than it
seems at first glance. Therefore, in this post we will tell you about all the
phases of a move and what is important in each of them.
1st Phase:
Self-evaluation, the most important of the phases of a move.
To carry out your move you will need to hire a
company specialized in Moving services New York, but
before doing so you must make a prior and approximate evaluation of what your
service needs are. We believe that it is the most important because it is the
one that will allow you to really know your needs and be the measure that
allows you to organize everything else.
Perhaps you just need the removal company to be in
charge of transporting all your furniture and belongings, taking charge of the
tasks of packing and disassembling furniture, curtains, cabinets, etc.; Or, on
the contrary, you want the removal company itself, through its specialized
operators, to be in charge of these tasks.
Also, in this preliminary evaluation, you will have
to get an approximate idea of all the packages that you will have to
transport, whether they are boxes, furniture, electrical appliances, etc.;
since this will be essential information that you must provide to the removal company
so that they can prepare an estimate for you.
We advise you to write down everything in your
diary, on your mobile or on your computer so that you have clear and available
information when contacting the removal company. The clearer you are about exactly
what you need, the easier it will be for the removal company to prepare a
budget for you.
2nd Phase:
Search for a moving company.
Once you are clear about what you will need and
what tasks you will do on your own and which ones you will delegate to the
moving company, it is time to start looking for one that will take care of your
move.
It is important that you look for a serious company
that has a proven track record and also has the necessary means to make your
move.
Stay away from those pseudo companies that only
have a small van and only 2 people work. Try to find a real company, with a
real address, registered and for which you have references or can find
references on the Internet.
Make sure that the company you are going to hire
has the technical and human resources that your move needs. For example, if you
need to do it through the windows that are on a third floor to remove the
furniture from the home of origin or bring it into the destination home, then
you must make sure that the company you have chosen has a furniture lifter to
do so, otherwise your furniture and belongings could be seriously damaged by
the use of inappropriate techniques.
Try to have more than one removal company in view
because that way you can request more than one budget and compare between them;
Only then will you have the appropriate information that allows you to make a
decision that is appropriate to your needs.
3rd Phase:
Request budgets, study them, decide and contract.
Now that you have chosen 2 or 3 companies that are
capable of meeting your needs for moving services, it is time to request quotes
from them . We advise you to call or write an email to the chosen companies and
explain to them what you need and for what dates.
Regardless of whether you have contacted the
removal company by phone or email, it requires that you send yourself a written
estimate in which you have all the details of your service proposal; Only then
can you buy from each other and make your decision.
Do not forget that the cheapest budget is not
better, but the one that best suits your specific needs; so do not decide only
by price, since cheap can be expensive if what you finally get is not what you
expected.
Hire local moving NYC in advance, so
that you have time to organize all the tasks prior to the arrival of the day
that all your furniture and belongings will be taken from one place to another.
Also, if you book in advance you are more likely to get a better price. You
already know that rushing is not good and all the services that we contract
urgently are more expensive than those that we have contracted calmly and in
due time.
4th Phase:
Pack and pack all the moving items.
If you have decided to take care of the tasks of packing
and packaging all your belongings and furniture, we recommend that you start
with it at least 2 weeks before the expected date of the move. It is very
normal that the time that all these tasks will require is underestimated and
for this reason it is better to try to have plenty of time and not just.
It is essential that before starting the packing
and packaging tasks you have bought enough boxes and plenty of packing tape. Be
careful with the size of the boxes, make sure they are not too big, especially
if you are going to put very heavy things inside them, since someone will have
to lift and stack it and if it is too big, it will also end up being very
difficult to load.
Take advantage of the entire packing process to
throw away all those things that one keeps without meaning and that without
realizing it accumulates overflowing the closets and storage room. Take
advantage of this opportunity to clean up and think that everything you
transport will have to find a place for it in the new destination; Besides, it
doesn't make sense to take something that you're going to end up throwing away
later. Also, if you fill your move with useless packages you will end up paying
more.
As you go packing your things and closing boxes,
write on the outside what they have inside and, even more importantly, in which
room of the destination address they should be deposited.
Go leaving all the boxes organized so that they are
not a hindrance when doing all the other packing tasks that you will have to
do, such as storing mirrors, plants, etc. You can find tips on how to organize
the transport of this other type of things by reading our post How to prepare
your most delicate objects for a move.
Make sure to leave those packages and boxes that
you will take on your own and that will not go in the moving truck in different
places or properly marked, so that your most delicate objects that you wanted
to take in your car do not end up mistakenly confused with the rest of the
packages.
5th Phase:
The day of the Moving.
The day of the move usually starts very early,
since moving companies are very early risers but also because there are always
things that we lack and that day we get up early to finish with all those small
details that we lack.
Making a move is not an easy thing, so it will be a
hard day with a lot of work if you are the one who stays there to manage
everything. You have to arm yourself with patience and put a good face on bad
weather. Take it as an experience that comes out of the routine and try to enjoy
it taking advantage of putting in order all those things that over time we
accumulate without a clear meaning. Bad or bad, a move is always a new
beginning and you should see that as a positive opportunity for change.
To finish, we want to remind you that a move does
not really end when all the things have been moved from the address of origin
to the destination address, but rather that another series of jobs associated
with your move that you must do begins; We still have to unpack all the boxes
and objects that we have protected for their transfer, assemble all those
furniture that we have had to disassemble to be able to move them from one
place to another, etc.; but this is already something that you can take more
calmly and resolve in the following days.
Complete
Plan: for those who don't have time to move.
We have designed a Moving Plan designed for those
who need to move but want to take on as little responsibility as possible for
all the often exhausting activities that this process entails.
Visit our moving page and learn about our different
Moving Plans. There you will find the details of our Complete Plan in which we
take care of practically all the tasks of your move without you having to do
anything more than the minimum.
Our professionals will take care of all the tasks
of packing, furniture disassembly, transfers, unpacking and assembly of
furniture at destination, etc.
For more information, contact us and we will
explain all the details of this service and you can arrange a visit so that one
of our sales representatives can come to your home or office and make a first
assessment of the needs of your move in order to prepare a budget adapted to
your specific needs.
Find out without obligation and let us take care of
all the tasks related to your move, so you don't have to do practically
anything.
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