Common Mistakes Made While Packing and Moving
Moving homes is might be easy these days because plenty of packers and movers available in market, but practically Packing and shifting of entire household goods is not going to be easy, unless you have done it several times There are many complications from arranging appropriate packing materials to finding labor, truck, insurance and all is not going to be easy.
Moving homes is not just transporting goods from one house to another. It involves a lot of things all integrated into a single chain. If the first step goes wrong, the whole process might get in jeopardy. Therefore, when packing and moving be careful try to avoid these common mistakes and save yourself from unnecessary hassle and trouble:
Lack of Proper planning
It is very important to plan everything well in advance. Packing the items randomly as and when you wish will only result in wasted time and building tension. Don’t even attempt to make this deadly mistake. Planning can make all the difference. It’s always better to inspect your house carefully and prepare a list of items you would like to take along Plan day-by-day calendar listing things you need to pack each day until the moving day. You can also plan for packing things room-by-room starting from the guest room, living room and finally kitchen and bathroom.
Packing of items must be customised and prioritised depending on your specific needs. Once your planning is ready, stick to it and you will be enjoy and realize how the difficult job of packing and moving turn into a joyride.
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Waiting for the last minute
Rushing through the process at the last minutes is going to create more hassles and chaos, and I am sure you don’t want that, Normally seen that majority of people is believe that they have more time to do things than they actually have, you must plan and organize your move to avoid last minute chaos. First of all, decide your moving out date, whether it is the end of your leasing period, joining date for your new job or just possession of your new house.
Once you have your moving out date finalised, count back to 6-8 weeks. You will need all this time to transfer gas connections, inform vendors, settle bills, sort out your belongings, hiring movers, kids school transfer certificates and of course for packing.
If you plan things way ahead, you won’t be panic if a sudden unexpected task come.
Marking of Items
Do not believe in infallible visual memory, because of this belief people do not marked their boxes and kept in their head that which item in placed in which box or cartons.
Practically they creates confusion for themselves, The situation in the new home will be very different from that of your current home, The huge piles of non-labelled boxes added with all the stress of loading, unloading and moving can easily confuse even the most observant person.
Marking of boxes will not only help in identify your belongings but it will help the loading or off loading team to identify fragile items or any other goods that need extra special care while loading/of loading.
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Ignoring the Insurance
Most common tendency of not getting insurance done while moving the goods. Your goods might properly pack and safely handled to avoid sort of damage, But there are certain things which are beyond our control, and if anything goes wrong, the insurance can be the only savior. Transit insurance is very cheap by spending some rupees you can get peace of mind.
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How to Judge The Right Quotation Within City For Packers and Movers Services
In last blog we have discussed that Packers and Movers is highly unorganized sector and Vintage Relocation is trying to provide an organized solution in a highly unorganized segment. In present market there is lots of frauds and irresponsible packers and movers available, this sector need to be organized and customers should get such a information which is valuable for them, they can able to get the right quotation for their move and packing.
We will try to give some information which can help you to answers your questions and give a clear picture of how we can identify a genuine quality packers and movers and what is the right quote for move.
It is very easy to know the charges of bus ticket, movie ticket, taxi fare etc, but when u plan for a packing and moving then: Mostly of the people answer would be NO.
Do you know any platform that is going to help you out? Probably no idea?
Since packers and movers industry is highly unorganized sector from ages, this more than Billion dollar industry is infiltrated with technology and there are no such standards needed to start this business. .
Today, most customers are unfamiliar with the standard moving process and safety. This lack of knowledge could potentially cost them more money and stress than imagined.
Vintage Relocation–Packers and Movers – After completion of 20 years of glorious service in Indian Air Force. They have started this entrepreneurship in Moving and Packing services and successfully completed thousands of house shifting in Delhi/NCR in the past few years.
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We compiled customers data to formulate the movers and packers charges which will give you a fair idea about the cost you need to pay for the reliable and professional services.
After completing 20 years in logistic sector our experience and Vintage Relocation experts team identified some major points: :
- Household good
- Distance
- Packing
- Manpower Required
- Physical Activity involved while loading and unloading
- Shifting timings
- Insurance
- Additional Services
- Taxes
- Vehicle type
- Storage
Let’s go through the process how these factors sum up to the cost local House Shifting ( Within Delhi/NCR) Household goods: The Household goods volume decides the size of truck needed for your shifting .
A truck can range from small Tata to 19 feet DCM/Tata /Eicher Truck. Price can range from Rs 2500 to 5500 for single trip and Rs 2000 for 2nd on trip.
Packing:
In the local movements as the transit time is hardly 2 -4 hours the chances of goods getting damaged is very minimal. .
Usually, packing is done only for the fragile, electronic items and kitchen crockery is wrapped with papers and will be packed in cardboard boxes and foam sheets for the furniture’s. This kind of packing approximately costs around Rs 2500 to Rs 5500. .
* Special type of Packing for furniture and other items may cost additional which depends on the quantity of packing material used. .
Manpower:
These people are the one who takes possession of your goods, Professional Staff usually charges Rs 600-700/person. They pack, load, unpack them, rearrange and fixing of bed and sofas.. Normally, four to six manpower required for a house shifting (2 BHK).
Additional Services (Optional): Packers and movers don’t deal with assembling and disassembling of the electronic items. If you need, they can facilitate an electrician on the move/shifting day on payment:
(i) AC assemble and disassemble(window/Split) (Rs 1000 to Rs 2500/-)
(ii) LCD mount at new home (small/Big) (Rs 400– 500) .
(iii) Geyser mount at new home(15//30Ltr) (Rs 500– 700) . .
Physical Activity Involved: Optional . .
When the lift is not available or distance between the truck and your house is more or rope is required for luggage. An amount of Rs 1000 to Rs 1500 will add up.
Shifting Timings: Optional
Commercial heavy vehicle entry is restricted between 7.00 am to 11.00 noon and 5.00 pm. to 11.00 pm.Shifting in Night is 20 percent extra then day shifting.
Cost of movers and packers – Local house shifting after evaluating more than thousand local house shifting quotes from different trusted packers and movers, counting customer experiences, household safety and quality of the staff, these are the mean prices for shifting based on house type.
House hold volume + Transport + Packing + Labour = Total
1 BHK = Approx Rs 7500/- .
2 BHK (Standard ) = Approx Rs 10000/- .
3 BHK+ (Standard) = Approx Rs 17000
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Note : Distance is not really matter in the costing, until unless distance is not more than 15/20 kms.
For Example: If you are shifting from Dwarka Sec 6 to Sector 4 its merely 4 km or you shift to Delhi cantt distance is 12 Kms. It doesn’t take more than 1 LTR of diesel for dwarka Sec 6 and 3 ltrs for delhi cantt ( approx Rs 50/150). So even your shifting distance is 1 km or 15 km(Local within city) still the logistic cost remains same. Cost changes when your truck cross the borders otherwise the cost almost remains same.
