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Getting Started
Into the large box pack only light bulky items such as Pots and Pans, Electrical Appliances, Clothes, Shoes, Toys, Linen, Bedding, Cushions, etc.
The smaller box is for heavier items such as Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs. Records etc. Crockery and Glassware travel very well in the smaller box as there is not the weight pushing down on the bottom items and the box doesn't get to heavy.
IMPORTANT: Always tape the bottom of the box first, ensuring that the box is packed the right way up. If packed the wrong way up, there is a chance someone will want to rectify this and turn it up the "right way," putting the heavier items on the top possibly damaging the lighter more delicate items now on the bottom.
Packing
Clear a large area of a table or bench top for wrapping items.
Lay your packing paper flat, ready for use. White wrapping paper (or as Removalists call it in the industry Butchers Paper) is ideal for wrapping all your crockery and glassware.
If you use newspaper the printers ink can come off and stain your crockery, glassware and other items.
However, so as not to waste the Butchers Paper, use news paper for padding on the bottom of boxes and for filling in spaces in your packing. The goods will not be stained as they will be wrapped in the Butchers Paper.
With dinner and bread plates, to prevent wastage, place the plate on the paper and fold a corner of the paper over to cover the plate. Place another plate of the same size on top and fold the other corner over. If there is still enough paper in that sheet repeat the process. With cups, glasses and ornaments, wrap each item loosely, making it puffy, as air space between the item and the paper helps to cushion the movement.
Always put heavier items towards the bottom of the box and the lighter fragile items towards the top so as not to crush and cause breakage. Packing is mostly good old common sense.
Cups, glassware and lighter items can be packed towards the top of the box. Do not push paper into cups or glassware, wrap them loosely, folding the edges of the paper as you go.
Check the weight of each box as you pack making sure it doesn't get too heavy.
Leave approximately 3cms (1 inch) at the top of the box as the space cushions fragile items when the carton is sealed.
Fridge
- Keep an esky out to pack your frozen goods. If necessary defrost your fridge the day before your move. Check water overflow on the day of the move, if the fridge leaks it could mark your carpet while being moved to the truck and inside the truck it could damage your goods packed on the floor.
Pantry
- Use your packets and cardboard containers from the pantry between glass jars and bottles.
- Bottles of wine and alcohol must be stood up in the smaller cartons, wrap every second bottle and make sure they are not going to rattle around.
- Use newspaper to fill up the empty spaces.
- Make sure all jar lids are firmly sealed, if necessary taped to prevent leakage and stood upright in box after wrapping.
Books
- Pack books only into the smaller cartons as they become very heavy.
- Continually check the weight of the box as you're packing to ensure it doesn't become to heavy.
- Beware of packing to many encyclopaedias or magazines together as they become very heavy, very quickly.
Bedding
- Put your bedding from the beds into a plastic bag and store in the car so that as soon as the beds are put up you can get them made.
- You can then go to bed as soon as you are tired without having to search for the sheets etc.
Plants
- Remember your pot plants.
- If it looks like rain, put them under cover 2 days before your move.
- Do not water them the day before the move as the water can run through the removal truck and damage your mattress or soft furniture
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