Sunday, June 9, 2013

Understand How To Cope With Wall Decorations While Relocation

By Sharonne Penickata


While the packing process is probably not an easy one to undertake, there will always be questions that arise concerning how you can safely transport certain items from point A to B. Among the most commonly inquired about are wall decorations. When you are obtaining moving quotes, representatives of the company often need to know whether they will be moving these delicate items around.

Wall decorations can take many different forms and styles, which cause no small amount of headache for their owners. Understanding how to safely transport these products, where to find the containers you will need to have them safe, will take most of the be anxious of the move.

Based on the item, you will need either a poster tube or even a specialty box to keep it in. Poster tubes are lengthy, slender cardboard tubes with caps on both ends. They may be purchased in moving stores, and really should be taped shut on both ends. Specialty boxes of any size can be purchased, but need to be measured for correct fit.

Cloth wall hangings are not hard to deal with. Usually these things are manufactured from cloth, whether an ornamental quilt, a wall scroll, or even a illustration showing macrame skill. When you remove this item from the hanging spot, check for any damage.

Besides dust, these cloth items can be attacked by spiders, moths or mold from the back and you wouldn't understand it until you took them down. Discard ruined goods. Unless the item is definitely an antique, simply roll it up and place it in a poster tube for safe transit. Antique items should be transported as flat as possible, not rolled, to extend their life.

Framed items should be dusted and examined for damage before packaging. Each frameworked product need to have its very own box. If you decide to place multiples in the box, make sure you maintain a sheet of thick cloth around them, or bubble wrap between them. Mark the box as delicate, and seal it shut for your move. Specify on the label that there is glass in the box for added fragile handling.

Items which have been shown on wall hanging shelves are probably delicate in nature. These should be properly packed by covering them in tiers of fabric or bubble wrap, then kept in a safe box along with other fragile items. Mark these as glass and fragile for additional safety.

The shelves themselves pose a difficulty to a lot of that are relocating. Shelves tend to be oddly shaped, with delicate decorative edges that must definitely be protected. The easiest method to keep shelves safe is to carefully take them off from other wall, with great attention paid to any hardware which you disassemble in the process. Place small parts in the zipper top baggie and tape this to the underside of the shelf. The shelf should then be wrapped in cloth or bubble wrap to maintain it safe, and placed snugly in a box for transport by movers.




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