House Security During Relocation and Removal
Leaving your house empty during the house relocation can play a bad game on you creating an opportunity for intruders to break in. If you want to secure your property and guarantee a safer removal for your belongings, follow these tips. Never leave the house empty with your belongings still in there. If you are leaving to go deal with housing registration, bank information management and real estate issues and you have to leave the house, call a friend to stay for a couple of hours or ask the neighbors to watch over your property while you are gone. Houses on sale can be an appetite target for burglars and the fact that outside is still a sunny day won’t stop them from finding a way to enter. Don’t make this easier for them by leaving a key under the door mat or near the entrance. Flower pot and garden gnome stashes are out the question as they the most common hiding places. Try to move everything from your old dwelling to the new one within a day. This is only applicable for short-distance transportation. Try not to leave any valuable items in your new dwelling during the house relocation without having someone to watch over the house. Shorten the removal and relocation process to avoid having your belongings on two different places for the night. Don’t leave your packaged belongings outside the house without oversight. Same goes when you are putting up a yard sale. Make sure to lock the doors and windows and always keep an eye on your house while you are with your neighbors and potential clients. Don’t showcase expensive items on the sale or this may attract the wrong people and put your and your property’s safety in...
Read MoreShould You Tip The Movers
Many people wonder about the sensitive issue of whether they should tip the movers and how much should they give. Often people want to be appreciative, but they don’t know what is acceptable when it comes to moving. Here is our stand on this. You pay us good money for a great service and we should be giving you a great service and we are not looking for anything extra. All our terms and conditions are fair, we don’t have hidden charges or extra costs and we are not looking for a tip either. Certainly, though, we understand that when people get an excellent service, when they are very stressed out, in a tough situation like a move, they certainly want to show their appreciation. The removal teams love when their efforts are praised. So, if you want to express your satisfaction with the service, why don’t you buy them lunch during a long move, or provide refreshments in a hot day? That surely goes a long way. The other question that follows when it comes to tips is how much do you tip? It is an individual decision, determined by what you are comfortable with. Our advise is to not go crazy and think of hundreds of dollars. Surely $10, $20 or $30 is enough to make your movers feel appreciated. It is the fact that you loved the services they provide that counts. Personally, we would never want to make our customers feel they have to tip our movers. That puts too much pressure on an already stressed-out person. From our perspective, we train all our removalists to expect nothing. They show up without expectations and bring their own lunch, their own refreshments and if the customer offers something, that’s awesome. If, however, you are overly pleased with the job, certainly let the team know in a verbal manner, and are free to give them some money that is comfortable for you and your family. Feel free to also write an e-mail and let the company know what great job they did. It really helps in terms of improving services and providing great...
Read MoreThe Moving Challenge – Do You Got What It Takes?
So can you measure up to professional removalists? Relocation is one of the toughest decisions when it comes to choosing your new area of residence and moving your belongings to your new home. There is plenty of material out there teaching you what are the perks of calling the removalists in to help you with the move, yet neither one explains the downsides of actually choosing to do everything by yourself. If you think you’ve got what you need to take upon the wild adventure of moving house on your own, step aside into our next insights on house relocation and try matching your skills with the professionals and, please note, speed is not the only skill on their list! Game One: Packing Your Stuff Looks easy, but it is one of the hardest task when it comes to packaging fragile objects. For this round, you will need one cardboard box and a couple of old glass bottles or cups. Wrapping up these easily breakable items in newspapers won’t always do the trick. If you are going to move your belonging more than 10 kilometres along with all of your other furniture, keeping everything safe might become a problem. Do you have quality packaging material and skills to secure your safe trip to your new home? If not, this round might be ours to win. Game Two: Moving the Couch Let’s be realistic, if you are going to move, you will probably have to lift heavy furniture and the couch is the perfect test subject on that manner. Since moving is a two man job and you are just one, you will have to push your lifting skills to the maximum. If you are lucky enough to find a moving buddy, you try taking the steps down and exit the building. Be careful on your way down the stairs and try keeping up with your friend’s tempo. Tough, ah? Game Three: Driving the Van If you happen to have in hand a small bus or a large family car with lots of storage space, try competing in this final round. Pack a couple of boxes with old, useless fragile items and load one bigger furniture piece together with them. Try making a couple of circles around the block without braking the cargo and bumping into too many holes on the road. The Conclusion: If you find those round hard to win, you might consider calling us the help. And in case you won all the games, you might actually take a shot in our team and master your already well-developed mover skills in our team of professional removalists from Melbourne. Either way, take care on your trip to your new home! Image Credit: Commons...
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