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Preparing for Your Move: High End Furniture

  Moving is stressful in and of itself. There’s a lot to consider, and most of it involves how to get your stuff from point A to point B. Many people who are preparing for a move opt to work with a professional moving company to make the transportation of their belongings a lot easier. Working with a moving company certainly does take away a lot of the stress of a move. However, in most cases, packing will still be your responsibility. Particularly if you have high end furniture that you own, there are a number of steps you should take to prepare before your moving company arrives on the big day.

High end furniture, antiques, and custom furniture pieces are by and large one of a kind. If something were to happen to your custom-made dresser, your one of a kind 18th century bed frame, or your expensive credenza, you’ll obviously be greatly disappointed. Although your movers will be trained in how to move high end furniture pieces, you still need to prepare.

The first step in preparing for your move is that you should be insured. If your items are really one of a kind and if anything happening to any of them would truly cause you turmoil, there’s no reason not to get insurance. Although your movers may have insurance, base insurance policies held by moving companies will likely not cover the full value of your high end items. Therefore, it’s in your best interest to seek out private full coverage for the items that you are most concerned about.

Of course, the next step in preparing for your move is making sure that everything is wrapped and packed properly. This means procuring bubble wrap, special containers, boxes, moving pads, and anything else that will work to specifically protect your items. Anything that is glass or otherwise fragile needs to be handled with great care in order to create the best success for its safe delivery.

If you have extremely fragile items and you aren’t sure how to pack them properly, it’s really best to hire a moving company that offers specific services that cater to the handling of highly sensitive items. Items such as fine art, high end or custom furniture, and musical instruments are extremely specialized items. The best case scenario would be to find a company that specifically trains personnel to handle such items. Just because someone knows how to move art doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re going to know how to move your harp. Ask what the professionals you’re considering working with are specifically trained in and what types of moves they’ve handled in the past. If you need a piano mover, find a piano mover.

Ultimately, it’s just really important that you go out of your way to prepare in the most intensive way possible so that your move can be stress free and so that you can rest easy that your items are going to make it make it to your new home safe and sound.
 

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