6 things that can possibly go wrong when moving homes

Moving homes is rated as one of the most physically, emotionally and financially draining experiences in life. It is a daunting experience that involves too many apprehensions and risks whether you have properly planned your move or not. While a properly planned move might make you more careful when organizing the process that may help you reduce wasted time, money, and energy. However, conditions beyond your control may collapse your productive plans if you are not already prepared to deal with such circumstances.

Your family generally follows a disciplined system at home and you have planned your household move with military precision. You have ensured the following:

Preparing a checklist

De-cluttering your home and throw away unnecessary stuff

Framed a moving budget

Researched and hired professional Movers and Packers in Chennai

Did your own packing for sensitive items

Prepared the “Open first box”

Despite the above measure, you may find the moving process challenging. It is important to be well prepared for the most common obstacles during the moving process to help you respond suitably to each of them listed below:

Inadequate time: You have waited until the last hour to prepare yourself for the move and find yourself in a desperate situation due to lack of time. This inadequate time might give you the worst of moves when it comes to taking stress. You should ideally consider preparing a checklist to guide you right through the start of your move a month ahead to the end of it.

Picking wrong movers: This is the most common problem in every move. Hiring unlicensed and unreliable movers can give you the biggest stress. You need to do thorough research before hiring the movers for your job. You should ideally get references from friends and colleagues, check their customer feedback before contacting them for the quotes.

Packing issues: Such issues will arise if you choose a DIY move. You may either overpack your stuff or leave it under packed. Either case is harmful for the safety of your goods and your total budget including damages. Hiring professional movers is the only sensible option to avoid this unnecessary situation.

Heavy furniture does not go through the door: You have obviously ignored the narrow passage and the doorways of your new home to encounter this problem on the move day when the goods arrive at your new place. You should follow the below mentioned best practices to avoid such a situation:

Take the dimensions of the heavy furniture and measure the passage and doorways

Disassemble the furniture to the last bit

Hire qualified movers to move your heavy furniture

You need to dismantle the doors of the side-by-side refrigerator to fit it through the doors

Last but not the least, consider removing the door should you need to despite taking all such precautions

Injuries to self: This is quite a possibility when you choose the DIY option as you do not have the experience to lift heavy furniture in the correct manner. Consider these 5 options to have an injure free to move if you have decided to do it by yourself;

Look for professional help in the form of a qualified laborer

Hire a 2 wheeled or a 4 wheeled push-cart to move your heavy furniture

Clear the passageways of all obstacles

Prepare a checklist with timing and work according to it without rushing into things

Keep children and pets away from the packing and moving place

Damaged goods: This can be a result of whether or not you have hired professional movers. Although the extent of damage to your goods is much higher when you do it yourself which is definitely a result of inappropriate and careless packing. For DIY, you will always run short of packing ideas and the right packing material. You should ideally hire professional movers who come with the right type of packing material and heavy corrugated boxes to pack all your sundry items.

Nevertheless, nothing comes close to hiring professional Packers and Movers in Delhi who has given numerous years into this profession of packing and moving your household goods. You are strongly recommended to take advantage of this experience and save time and energy as also money and ensure a smooth and stress-free move to your new home.