Packing Tips
- If you are doing your own packing, start packing several cartons each day for a few weeks before your move. Be sure the items you pack won’t be needed before you move.
- Pack on a room by room basis and do one area of the room at a time. It is better not to mix items from different rooms in one box.
- To prevent small items from getting lost or thrown out in the packing material use bright coloured tissue for those pieces.
- On the top and front of each carton, write general description of the contents and the room from which it came or which it will go to in the new home.
- Use different coloured dot stickers on each carton. At your new home indicate a colour for each room to indicate where the cartons are to go.
- Use unprinted newsprint to wrap items. Ink from printed newspapers can soil your possessions.
- Use clean cartons and cartons that are strong enough to hold your possessions.
- Hazardous materials-flammables such as paint, varnish, thinners, gasoline, kerosene, bottled gas, detergents, aerosol cans, ammunition and explosives, corrosives and cleaning fluids are some examples of common household items which cannot be included in your shipment.
- Essentials that you may need upon arrival at your new home for example: toilet paper, telephone, coffee and coffee maker, flashlight, pliers, screwdriver, can opener, paper plates, cups and utensils should be packet in one box and have the mover place this last in the moving van.
- Irreplaceable photo’s, financial papers, legal documents, valuables and medical and family history records should be transported by you personally.
- Unpack breakables over a box containing packing materials so that if dropped the pacing materials will cushion the fall.
