One of the most challenging hurdles people have to scale during a move is finding the perfect way to safeguard their furniture.

Home furniture’s are usually large, weighty, comes in varying sizes and are one of the costliest equipment. Plus, no matter if they are made of wooden, plastic or metal materials, they can easily get damaged by the elements, making them wear out, spot dents and cracks, and lose their value. These factors make it difficult to simply tuck them in the moving van.

You may require a storage service to keep some of these items. However, you’ll find over 70% of household fittings essential. If your home furniture holds sentimental value to you, you need to know how to protect them from the elements when relocating.

Luckily, we have a few tricks to teach you how to wrap furniture for moving.

1)  Collect Packing Supplies

The first tip on how to pack furniture for moving is finding packaging materials. As stated earlier, a furniture will easily get affected by the element, making it lose its value. For instance, when you leave your expensive, almost antique-like table open without covering It’s top, it collects dust and debris, thereby wearing off. Before stacking household fittings inside the moving van, consider finding the right packing articles that protect them from these elements. Packing supplies are always available at the local hardware store near you. Alternatively, you can get packaging materials from online stores like Amazon. Some handy supplies you should consider buying include:

• Blankets
• Packing Tape
• Bubble wrap
• Stretch wrap

2)  Prep Furniture for Packing

Once you’ve gotten every resource needed for wrapping the furniture; the next step would be to thoroughly clean the surface and corners of the furniture to remove stains, dust. So, if your desk, chair, sofa or table has screws, knobs or little spaces, find the time to clean these edges and remove every unnecessary filth hiding inside your expensive furnishes.

3) Dismantle Furniture in Advance

You’ll lose space in the moving van if you load the furniture without dismantling them. Plus, they can easily break, especially their legs, if they are left in their setup state. However, dismantling the furniture will not be an easy process since every home piece of equipment has its unique design and setup. Likewise, many people may find it difficult to reassemble these pieces since they are unfamiliar with their setup.

Before disassembling any large equipment, take the time to video or snap each piece to remember their setup before and after taking them apart. This would help you reassemble them when you get to your new home.

Then, decide on which pieces need pulling apart. Any piece that does not fit through your doorways or the staircase is the essentials you need to take apart. Nevertheless, some of everyday pieces that would need disassembling will include beds, tables and wall cupboards.

4) Learn How to Wrap Furniture Correctly

If you’re done taking apart each fitting, the next thing you need to learn is how to wrap them correctly. Consider the following steps:

·  Cover each fixture with a blanket

If you’re not going to cover the whole part of the chair, table or desk, make sure to protect its top with a blanket. Your home fittings will gather dust when left open. So, get a blanket and wrap it around them. Larger equipment like piano and mattress will require you to use multiple blankets stock your blankets in bulk.

·  Use plastic to wrap the body of your fixtures.

It doesn’t matter whether you used a blanket to wrap the top of your home fittings. What matters is that you cover every part that might be prone to the elements, including their body. So, get a plastic wrap and roll it around the body of your chair, table or cabinets. If you have a sofa, make sure to use the plastic wrap around its arm, all the way to its leg.

·  Use cardboard as an extra protective layer.

If your items can fit into a large box, box them up after wrapping them with plastic wrap. But, if they can’t cut some pieces of cardboard and place them in their corners. If you have fixtures like dressers or fragile wood pieces, fold several pieces of cardboard, place them below the furniture, roll the cardboard paper over its corners, and secure with packaging tape. On the other hand, place cardboard paper on the glass top, bend the edges to cover the corners of the glass tabletop and tape.

·  Use bubble wrap on fragile items.

You’ll have some delicate fittings that might easily scratch and bend. To protect them on the move, use bubble wrap to pack them even after using plastic wrap. Then, hold in place with a tape.

5) Have a Placement Plan

The last hack on how to pack furniture for moving is to pan out arrangement techniques in the moving van. You’ll have some boxes with the most delicate equipment, while others will hold large fixtures that won’t damage easily. You need to know how to arrange them to avoid costly damages to your delicate items. Some good placement plan techniques would include:

·  Make sure to distribute the weigh evenly

Ensure that the heavy items are scattered around in the shipper’s truck. You don’t want the weight to fall on one side, making it difficult to guide the truck in the desired direction. The heavier items will be best placed close to the wall of the moving truck.

·  Put glass fixtures like mirrors and pictures between your mattress

Even though you’ve used plastic and bubble wraps on glass tops and mirrors, they can also damage on the road. For this reason, you want to place them in between soft fittings like a mattress so that they’re far away from hard objects that might damage them.

·  Place coaches vertically

Coaches are one of the largest home equipment anyone can ever have. This means that they take up space. You want to place them vertically to save space.

• Hold large fixtures with straps.

Shipper’s truck may pass speed bumps, thereby tossing everything around in the moving van. To avoid costly damages from this, secure each furniture with a strap.