Many long distance moves involve short or long term storage. This means that many special preparations will be required, including careful packing, labeling and insuring your items. This Alpha Moving and Storage blog post takes a look at a few of the preparations and provides other useful information about the subject.
Packing for Storage
The packing process is not essentially different, but it should be done more carefully, considering the fact that your items will need to be loaded and offloaded from a truck several times. It is our strong recommendation to utilize the services of a professional moving and storage company for your packing needs. A professional mover will be able to properly protect, insure and label all your items. However, if you decide to do some or all of the packing by yourself, here are a few important points to consider:
- Storage and long distance deliveries require careful packing. Use only new and sturdy packing materials.
- Carefully label each and every one of your boxes. This will help the moves with moving your items in and out of storage.
- Don’t place any important documents, medicine or other items inside the boxes going to storage. Especially for long distance moves, you don’t want to find yourself in a situation in which an important document is stored in another state.
- Carefully mark all fragile items so the movers will know to handle them with care.
- Consider allowing the movers to pack all the electronic equipment, televisions, mattresses and so forth. Remember that your items are going into storage. There’s a difference between packing files and books and packing expensive televisions or chinaware. Such items are best left for professional movers to handle, especially when long distance moving and storage are involved.
- Alpha Moving and Storage will be delighted to offer you full packing services. Please contact your relocation consultant for further details.
Alpha Moving & Storage
234 16th Street 2nd floor, Jersey City
-
My real estate agent recommended Alpha and it was the smartest decision about our move we made. I worked with Bill and did a visual walk through of our … More place via Facetime and in very short order I had a quote and the job was set. From top to bottom it was a seamless and gracious experience from everyone at Alpha.
Nothing was even remotely injured or scuffed. In fact, the attention to securing our belongings was above and beyond. You should feed safe trusting your move to Alpha! -
We used Alpha to move my daughter. They were wonderful. Assisted my husband with packing large numbers of clothing and just as helpful with assisting us … More with unpacking.
They were able remove and install a huge electric bed without damage to the bed and walls and doorways of both apartment
All of the workers were polite friendly and I’ve said extremely helpful.
The office staff was wonderful too. They made the move as pleasant and low anxiety as possible.
I definitely recommend -
I was referred to Alpha moving and storage by my sister many years ago. I used them several times. The service was incredible. The movers were professional, … More efficient and effective. They arrived on time and went above and beyond to perform an excellent job. I would recommend them to anyone who’s moving. They’re truly the best!
