Pack Furniture For Moving Guideline

Getting your furniture ready for moving day can be stressful. Large pieces of furniture such as sofas, bunk beds, antique dressers and dining sets that seat 12 are far more complicated to pack than your books and picture frames. However, packing up your furniture and ensuring it arrives in good condition does not have to be impossible. You simply need to be prepared and organized. Pack furniture for moving by gathering helpful packing materials, disassembling everything you can and securely wrapping and boxing up all of the pieces and hardware that go with every item.

• Create a list of what you will be packing and moving. This will give you a written inventory and help you determine how much packing material you need.
• Create a packing material list. Things you will need for furniture will include sofa and mattress covers, packing tapes, bubble wrap, plastic wrap, sheets of cardboard, furniture blankets and old towels and rags.
• Clean your furniture. Dust and polish everything you plan to move. It makes no sense to pack up dirty furniture and bringing it into your new home, and you will not want to spend time cleaning it once you move.
• Clear out anything inside the furniture you are moving. This will make it lighter and easier to transport.
• Disassemble anything that can be taken apart. For example, remove legs from sofas and tables, take out dining table leafs and remove the headboards and footboards from beds.
• Place any hardware in clear plastic bags that seal. Label the bags so you know what they are and what the pieces belong to. For example, your bags might read “nuts and bolts from kitchen table” or “bed screws.”
• Wrap the disassembled furniture pieces and pack them in boxes. Use bubble wrap, stretchable plastic wrap, towels and blankets to protect table legs, bed rails and other detached pieces to your furniture.
• Cover glass table tops with heavy packing paper. You can also use thick furniture blankets or towels.
• Wrap mattresses, sofas and chairs in special plastic covers. These covers will protect your furniture against rips, damage and moisture.
• Line the floor of the moving truck with furniture blankets to protect the bottoms of your sofas, mattresses and any other pieces that will not be in boxes.
• Pack the moving truck so that all of your furniture is secure and not in danger of getting damaged or damaging other pieces. Similarly weighted objects should go on each side of the truck to keep everything balanced.