How to avoid damages during loading and unloading of big furniture?

Loading and unloading your large furniture would be one of the difficult tasks during your relocation process if you plan to do it yourself. Sometimes, you could get into bad situations like damaging your furniture or injuring yourself by not taking the right precautionary step during the loading and unloading process.

To avoid damages and to be safe from getting wounds, you should follow some essential tips to load and unload your valuable furniture. Are you confused about moving your big furniture to your new home without any damage?

Don’t worry! Here, we provide you some essential tips to follow during the loading and unloading of your large furniture.

Get assistance

The initial thing you should do is to protect yourself before protecting your precious furniture. Call your family members, relatives, or friends to help you with your loading and unloading process. Having two or more people to aid loading and unloading your furniture could make a significant difference.

If you are unable to find any of them for your help, you can hire some people from your area for loading and unloading your furniture.

Clean your furniture

Before you start your packing task, take time to dust and clean your furniture thoroughly. Dirt and dust could cause scratches on your furniture while moving. Therefore, cleaning your furniture would stop you from carrying them inside your new house.

Disassemble and assemble your furniture

• It is good to dismantle your large furniture to reduce weight while loading and unloading.
• You can dismantle your furniture fully by removing their legs, knobs, casters, pulls, and even the drawers out of desks.
• It would also be more helpful if you use the proper user manual when provided with any of your furniture to dismantle your furniture.
• You can even take pictures to remember how your furniture looked before the dismantling.
• Also, you can use tapes and markers to identify the furniture attachments quickly after dismantling when you have more furniture parts.
• Employ the proper drill bit in driller machines to avoid the risk of stripping screws during the disassembling of your furniture.
• After all your furniture is unloaded from the moving vehicle, you can re-assemble your furniture with the help of the pictures taken, user manuals, or by identity marks.

Pack your furniture

Before beginning your packing, you should buy some essential packing supplies from the close by the hardware store to pack your furniture. Some of the packing materials you should have with you are

• Bubble wraps
• Plastic wraps
• Mattress covers
• Sofa covers
• Cardboard sheets
• Sealable plastic bags
• Packing tapes

When you start packing your furniture, you can follow any of these below-given ideas. You can:

• Plastic and bubble wrap for covering fragile wooden parts.
• Corrugated cardboard sheets to prevent your furniture from scratches a dent.
• Get furniture blankets to stack your furniture on top of another furniture.
• Employ moving pads to load and unload furniture such as piano or a big sofa.

Protect your furniture from home doorways and walls

There are chances that you can damage your furniture on dashing or bumping against walls, floors, or glass pieces. So, it is good to take off the moldings from the doorways at both your homes while loading and unloading as it would help you develop an extra space to avoid damage to your furniture.

You can even calculate the size of your furniture to ensure you to pass through the doorways without any issues. Also, you can cover your furniture with quilted pads to prevent the furniture from the home damages.

Employ furniture sliders

Big furniture could be harder to load and unload during relocation. Mishandling may lead to damage to your furniture. Hence, using furniture sliders could help protect your furniture from creating damage or scratches to carpet floors and hardwood while loading and unloading tasks.

Use perfect lifting and holding techniques

Loading and unloading the furniture safely needs better lifting and carrying procedures. When you employ the wrong ideas, options are high that your furniture might fall or get scratched while loading and unloading.

It is advocated to combine both of your legs and arms while lifting and holding your furniture piece. You should even ensure that your furniture should be kept close to your body so that you can move steadily during loading and unloading. To prevent injuries, use your legs for lifting instead of using your back.

Big chairs could often be struck through small doorways. By turning the chairs to its sides and by holding the L end of them, you can easily rotate and bring the chair to another end through the doorway.

Employ proper loading and unloading equipment

Ensure that you employ the right loading and unloading equipment to load and unload your furniture safely. If possible, get a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) such as heavy-duty working gloves, which can protect your hands and fingers from getting injured. 

You can even buy lifting shoulder straps to load and unload your furniture safely and comfortably. Then you can create a good placement plan to load and unload your big furniture quickly. By using these right loading and unloading equipment, you can place inside and take your furniture carefully from the moving truck.

When you are not able to perform the loading and unloading tasks yourself, you can hire a professional relocation service provider to execute these tasks for you and also to avoid damages to your furniture.