Packing Tips & Recommendations for Moving Interstate

Moving interstate takes planning and organising. Adelaide Interstate Backloading will dismantle/ assemble pack and unpack your belongings but if you want to save that extra bit of money. You can learn to pack your own goods and organise everything so that the overall moving process is cheaper. To help you with this, we have some tips and recommendations.

Organising your goods to be packed into different sizes boxes can be overwhelming. To make it a little bit easier while also minimizing the size of your load. We recommend getting rid of some stuff you may not want or need anymore. This process is called decluttering and can save you a great deal when requesting an Adelaide backloading quote. Go through what you have and decide what you don’t need or can replace when you have moved. This will ensure you have less to pack and the space you take up on a truck will ultimately be less. Making for a cheaper backloading quote.

Create a list of items and number of boxes as you pack them. Separate the list into sections for each room of the house. Put items such as beds, bed sides, sets of drawers and the relevant items under each room section on your list. Leave boxes packed in each room where they are for now.

Start packing as early as you can. We all have things that we barely need or use. Start packing those items and goods into boxes so that you don’t leave everything to the last minute. Packing in advance will save you from overwhelming stress and is a goods way to get organised before you even start enquiring about backloading quotes.

When getting a backloading removal service to Adelaide. It’s a good idea to book in your move as early as possible. Backloading removals are a little different than removalists. Even though removalists will be handling your furniture and goods. Backloading removals in particular uses the space on a truck traveling either to and from your moving locations or through/past your moving locations. Booking in your Adelaide backload early will ensure we can secure your move within certain dates.

Once the dates for you Adelaide backload are finalised. It’s a good idea to contact the utilities companies that will be providing power, internet, gas or other essential needs at your new premises. No body wants to arrive at their new location in the middle of the night or during the day for that matter and have no access, power or internet. So, ensure you can organise dates or get the power on before you are even there.

Before you moving day, make sure you have what you need before the removalists come and start loading your furniture and goods onto the truck. Things such as tooth brush, hair brush, soap, extra underwear and cloths. Whether you are driving form your pickup location to your delivery location or flying. It is a goods idea to take the essentials with you so you have spares.

Boxes for moving come in a lot of different shapes and sizes. Use the right box for the right job. Boxes do have weight limits and as such are designed so. For example bookie boxes are smaller and designed for books as they quite heavy. So packing books into a standard box will most likely cause the box to break during transit or handling. Pack your least used items into boxes and slowly but surely fill each box. Use old newspaper or buy butchers paper from your local hardware store to wrap breakables and place between plates, bowls and cutlery. Bigger boxes are perfect for linen and other light items. Smaller boxes are for heavier items. Use linen and other fabrics to wrap your precious belongings into boxes instead of butchers paper to save more money.