Office Removals: How to Move a Filing Cabinet
So, the time has come to move your office and you are looking forward to a change. Change is good. It, hopefully, provides the grounds for improvement and the foundation for something new and exciting. The process of moving, on the other hand, is rarely associated with positive feelings. It is stressful and expensive and in most cases a very responsible thing to do. The Essentials of an Office Move When you are moving homes it’s one thing, but when you are moving your entire office, it is totally different. The removal process disturbs the working process and involves the relocation of important, expensive and often irreplaceable equipment, documents and data. During an office move it is twice as important to hire professional office removalists with a truck. The reason for that is that if anyone gets hurt during a move, professionals have insurance policies to cover any possible damages. On the contrary, if you ask your employees to move their workstations, you are the one who risks hefty fines if anything goes wrong. That being said, take seriously your responsibility towards the health and safety of every member of staff involved in the move. The next thing to consider is the confidentiality of everything you move. Filing cabinets are great for organising important documents, files and classifiers. However, depending on how sensitive the information kept in the filing cabinet is, determines the safety procedures you need to follow. How To Move Upright File Cabinets? Upright file cabinet is a cabinet that is taller than it is wider. In order to move it, you need to: Empty the cabinets first. Classify and label (labels, labels, labels) your files and folders so you know later what goes where. This is a very important step. Books and files in large numbers are extremely heavy to carry, so you need to empty your cabinet first. If the information, contained in the filing cabinet is very sensitive, pack it in boxes and take in the car with you. Sensitive information contains the names, and addresses of clients or of offenders/victims, financial statements, diagnoses of patients, notes about their psychological well-being, the names, addresses, diagnoses of little clients of yours i.e. children and minors. If the cabinet itself is smaller and the amount of files inside it is not overwhelming, you might be able to move it without having to empty it first and re-organise it later. Lock the cabinet drawers so they don’t open and cause disturbance to the process; Get straps and a furniture dolly. Wrap the straps around the filing cabinet and load it on the dolly. Now all you need to do is to wheel it out. How to Move Lateral File Cabinets? Lateral file cabinets are wider than they are taller and in most cases they do need to be emptied before they are moved. Because their construction is different, if not emptied they may bend or break under the weight inside. Simply empty the cabinet and move it using a furniture dolly. How To Move an Empty File Cabinet? If the cabinet is empty, there are very few things to look for: Make sure the drawers are securely closed and won’t be opening and slamming during the move. This could easily be fixed if you lock them, but if you can’t do that for one reason or another, use moving tape to secure them. If the filing cabinets are small in size and empty, you can stack them one on top of the other. You will save time and space. If you have questions and need assistance with...
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We’ve discussed this many times before, but it’s worth mentioning it again: when moving, there’s so much to think about! Besides packing your clothes, cutlery and books, you need to think of all the other small details like flowers, pots and plants inside the home, or outside the garden. That being said, today we would focus on the plants. Keep in mind: Australia has strict quarantine rules and regulations. If you are planning to move across states and bring your flowers and plants with you, you have to check with the state importation laws and to ask your removalists of choice what they think. It might seem silly that you are not allowed to bring a potted plant to a different state, but pots and plants are often targeted by insects and pests who use them to hi-jack the long journey. Introduced to a new area they might infest it, which can cause problems for other gardeners and eventually disrupt the local ecosystem. Okay, we might have gone a bit carried away – it’s not that apocalyptic, but you get the point! A Few Weeks Prior To The Move Start preparing your potted and garden plants well ahead of the move if you want to be successful. 1. Start pruning early to restrict growing and climbing plants. This will make them more manageable on the day of the move. 2. Eliminate all insects, pests and remove weeds. For the above mentioned reasons it is a good idea to keep your plants as ‘clean’ as possible. 3. Get cuttings from your most valued plants and get seed ourish your plants by adding good compost; 4. Start transferring them to plastic pots. They will need time to get used to the new pot. Doing so a few weeks prior to the move will give them a chance to recuperate before the big relocation. Remember some plants are very sensitive and they feel changes in their immediate environment. A small change in temperature and level of light can damage them quite a lot. 5. Ask your vendor for the garden at your new home and what type of soil there is. If you are planning to relocate your plants you need to take it into an account and make arrangements accordingly. 6. On the day prior to your move, water your plants. 7. Call your removalists and show them the pots and plants you are planning to relocate. Keep in mind that those take up the most space in a removals truck, as they need to be placed at a distance from boxes and items that can harm them during the trip. That being said, a single pot can make all the difference between one removals van and two. This will dramatically affect your quote. It is advisable to take your estimates well in advance and discuss them with the removals company, so you get a final and fixed price. On the Day Of The Move 1. Don’t forget to drain all the water from the pots. Avoid watering for now. Hopefully you will have plenty of time to do so when you arrive. 2. Put small potted plants in boxes, wrap pots in newspaper and label the boxes accordingly. If you are looking forward to a long journey poke some holes in the cardboard boxes too. 3. Put all tall plants in bags, or wrap them in plastic. Make sure you poke holes so they can breathe. 4. If you are moving during the cold months, consider driving the plants in your own vehicle. This way you can regulate the temperature and avoid stressing...
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