Whether you are relocating across town or across the country, moving is stressful for the whole family. Parents and children can feel the pressure as the moving date approaches. The task of packing every last one of your possessions can be daunting, the thought of preparing the property for your departure overwhelming. So how do you beat the moving blues?
Moving long distance can be a very stressful experience. You’re packing up your whole life and taking it somewhere far away where you might not know anyone. The best way to relieve at least a little bit of that stress is to properly prepare for your move. Here are a few ways to get yourself and your home ready for your long distance move.
If you’ve decided to downsize your large home, there’s one big problem you’re going to face: where to put all of your stuff. You’ll suddenly realize just how much you’ve accumulated over the years, and it can be overwhelming. Here are some tips to prepare for your move before our Richmond movers start bringing your things to your new home.
Nowadays, there is always an option to rent a self storage facility whenever you need to free up some space in your home or office. The rented space also works as a way to store some of your belongings temporarily until your Richmond movers will be able to accomplish moving your things to your new home. If you’ve been considering renting a storage space for quite some time, it may be best to gather as much information about it before you choose which facility to rent. This way, you can determine whether or not you have found a good self storage space.
Unless you’re home is on wheels you may need to follow the advice below
As a Delta BC Mover, our proximity to an amazing waterfront near the U.S. border has us receiving our fair share of long distance moving estimate requests from part time households. We define part time households, or residents, as those who live in more than one city/town/island throughout the year. Whether the household “category” includes well-to-do individuals or empty nesters with vacation properties, or those with a career that has them stationed back and forth between cities, the annual logistic transition can be a little daunting (after the novelty wears off). From Delta to Vancouver our long distance moving services are prime for part time residents in border towns like Point Roberts (where many Bc’ers have “6 month” homes), Blaine (WA), and beyond. In this month’s blog we thought we’d provide you part-timers out there with a few tips to making your yearly migration go smooth.
No need to frown on spring cleaning – Our Delta Moving Company has some tips to make it more productive
As long distance movers Vancouver area residents turn to not only for relocations but for advice on the entire moving process, we find ourselves providing tips to past, present, and future customers throughout the year as new contingencies arrive that alter their preparation for a household move. At this time of the year that advice falls on the concept of Spring Cleaning.
While spring cleaning is a long standing annual household tradition, it’s also a great way to prepare for a home relocation. Summer is the official moving season and many, like you perhaps, are getting ready to move. Even though it’s (summer) a couple of months away, now is the perfect time to get your house in order with a sweeping Spring Clean.
In this Accent Moving & Storage blog edition, is providing you with 3 Tips for Spring Cleaning:
Stay connected at all times even when you can’t from the comforts of your new home
Moving rarely comes at a convenient time, even if YOU were the one that planned it months in advance and around YOUR schedule. This is especially true if you run your own business or work remotely from home and need to be online and connected to the world around the clock. You can book a few days off when working a 9 to 5 or simply leave your work “at the office” during off hours and focus on your relocation but when your home base IS your office, moving can turn your personal corporate world upside down.
The reason so many of us have the opportunity to work from our homes is due to the fact that being connected to customers, partners, and associates online is now often more efficient than face to face, as long as the connection remains open. But when we move, our Internet service will likely be interrupted during the address change-over (sometimes for longer than expected periods) and your physical office (desktop set up) may not be connected for a few days.
Below our Delta BC Moving Company offers a few tip to make sure you stay connected during your next relocation:
No matter where your campus is, Accent Moving & Storage will get you started on the right path
Summer is winding down and recent high school grads are preparing for college miles away from home. Moms (even a few Dads) get weepy eyed as they pack up their babies rooms (soon to be converted to home fitness centers) and get ready to ship them off to the dorm room accommodations of unknown territory. College life has become a bigger and bigger deal over the decades and a stuffed backpack and book bag no longer do the trick in transporting your teen to campus. Students are fully immersing themselves in campus life and require a lot more come along with them on the college relocation to make their home away from home feel like home.
Our Delta BC moving company has shuttled more than a few freshmen off to college, from the Lower Mainland to the U.S.A., and during the early consultation process we’re flanked with questions about how to prepare for the logistics of moving to a college dorm. Here we offer 5 tips on how to best prepare for a move to on-campus dorm life:
1. On-campus Housing Policy
Campus policies regarding moving in and what you can bring vary from school to school. Space limitations are a major factor in close quartered dorms but there are other regulations to consider. Many diverse and co-ed colleges put restrictions on expressive room décor to ensure that potentially offensive materials (e.g. posters of David Hasselhoff in a Speedo, etc…) are kept out of sight. In addition there are often strict rules regarding noise so anyone planning on packing up their Pioneer surround sound home theater system can put the brakes on that prospect. Some appliances may be forbidden if they’re considered to be potential fire hazards or if they weigh heavy on the campus electricity bill. Refer to your college’s online student handbook for these details and call student services when you get stumped.
2. On-campus Furnishings & Amenities
Many colleges and universities rich in on-campus life come with fully or partially furnished dorm rooms. This of course can put a nice dent in your relocation load. Once again, consult the student handbook or call to find out which furnishings, appliances, and amenities are found in-room or in common areas so you don’t bring sand to the beach.
3. Campus Housing Floor Plan
Request a copy of the campus housing floor plan. It’s good to learn the dorm dimensions of entrances and hallways and so that you don’t end up having to hack your futon in half to make it fit in your room.
4. Roommate Possession Pre-screening
Sure the movies make it out to be an adventure meeting your roommate for the first time during day one on campus before the fraternity based hijinks begin. But the truth is that it’s a better idea to get your roommate’s information from the school as early as possible and open the lines of communication. In doing so, you can exchange information and find out which “household” possessions you may want to share therefore reducing the overall load that each of you has to bring along on the move. Your entertainment center may dwarf the set-up at Skywalker Ranch while your new roomie may be the Gordon Ramsay of his all-in-one Foreman Grill. Combine your strengths and you’ll have the coolest dorm on campus without duplicating items and taking up limited space.
5. Storage
Find out if on-campus housing has student storage. Some of your “must-bring” items may be seasonal in use or simply not practical to keep around the room on a daily basis. A 12 foot kayak may serve you well in the late summer in the Fraser River but not so much in the hail pelting cold of winter. If the college doesn’t have available storage then check to see if there is a reasonably priced storage facility nearby.
If you are the guardian of a student, or one yourself, preparing to move off to a college dorm to or from the Lower Mainland please contact our Delta BC Moving Company today to discuss our student friendly rates and to get a head start on preparing for dorm life – at least with respect to moving.
It may look like a peice of contemporary wall art but you don’t want this to happen to your LCD
Many of you are accustomed to the idea of hiring professional movers when planning a household relocation. It’s a huge relief to leave the heavy lifting, loading, transport, and unloading to others while you focus on all of the other aspects of moving that turn your life upside down. However, even with the transport logistics out of the way, packing can end up being the most time consuming and challenging experience.
Our Delta BC moving company not only holds years of professional experience as a mover, we’re also experts in the packing process. When you request an estimate from our Delta moving company, be sure to secure our packing service as well. Here’s why using a professional packer on your next move is a great idea:
1. Awkward Items
While you may pride yourself as being a fairly competent packer, certain items will throw you for a loop. We’ve seen the best stumble when it comes time to pack up awkwardly shaped, long, wide or bulky items that don’t quite fit into the standardized boxes that you’ve dug up from the back alley grocery store dumpster. Our professional packers have seen and packed it ALL. There is no mirror too long, no picture frame too wide, no vase too massive that we cannot accommodate it.
2. Electronics
No matter how careful you may be, the overly sensitive nature of high-end electronics and large digital items make them more susceptible to damage and loss of proper functioning than any other item coming along on a household move. The worst part is that you may not even be aware that certain electronics have been compromised until you attempt to use them days or weeks later. It’s worth the extra expense to hire professional packers when you have big budget home electronics on the line. It can end up saving you a considerable amount of money in repairs or replacements.
3. Supplies
Cardboard boxes from the local grocery store, duct tape, and a few old towels may do the trick as packing materials when moving into a college dorm, but for the most part households are greatly unprepared when it comes to having adequate supplies to pack and protect their valuable household possessions. Our Delta movers come fully equipped with every imaginable packing accessory for every imaginable item to ensure that no good goes unprotected. Even more importantly, we know how to use these supplies. From mattress pads to china barrels we’ve got you, and your possessions, covered.
4. Time
Your time is valuable. No matter if you prefer it be spent on work, study, with family, or in leisure, securing a professional Delta BC mover with staff experienced in expert packing services will free up the hours of your day that are best spent elsewhere.
Contact our Delta BC moving company today to discuss our professional packing process and to receive a FREE estimate that consolidates both packing and moving into one efficient moving-day package.
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