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Home Shifting Checklist and a few Packing and Moving Tips

Shifting and relocation looks complex because it involves lots of small tit bits and everything must fall in place for a perfect and smooth relocation. Be it a simple home shifting or car transportation from one city to another, it is a little complex, especially if you are doing it for the first time.

But no matter how complex it looks, if you are willing to spend a little bit of time and hire a professional packers and movers then entire shifting and relocation can become a little smoother and simple. Packers and movers are professionally trained people and they do it everyday, so it is obvious that if you employ a professional packers and movers company, it’s going to be a lot smoother. Continue reading →

Packing and Moving in India: Useful tips and advise for home shifting

When it comes to shifting your home, the firth thought that comes to your mind is to find a good packing and moving company to help you out. Isn’t it true? Well finding a packing and moving company for home shifting is not an issue, but if you want to save your money and time, you need to prepare a full checklist before approaching a moving company.

Hiring packers and movers is just a part of your entire packing and moving, but there are lots of other things that is to be done.

I am going to share a few tips and advise to help you save some money as well as get your household goods packed and moved to a new city quite smoothly.

Schedule and Checklist

Create a schedule for entire packing and moving. For example fix a date by when you must have a moving company hired. Date when you want your goods to be packed, date of moving and so on
First thing that is to be done is to make a checklist of goods that is to be packed and moved.
Create a list of goods that is to be left. You may like to donate these items or sell it. Selling these unused items may give you money that you need for moving.

Approach Moving Companies

Once you know what are the goods to be moved and by when you want it to be moved, you are ready to request Quotes and Estimates for packing and moving.
Contact at least three packers and movers service Providers Company and request for quotations.
Since you already have the list of goods, you can share it with them and ask for written quotations.
Call them to survey the goods and give final estimates. This also gives you a chance to meet them face-to-face and evaluate their profile and rates.
Discuss, negotiate and shortlist one of them and get the contract signed.

Other important moving tips

Negotiate with movers to ensure you get good deal
Ask if they are willing to offer free warehousing and storage facility for a couple of days. You never know what will happen tomorrow and in such case, your goods must be stored safe and secured
Make sure to check the entire packing list each box and items inside. This is very important to ensure all your items that have been packed reach your home.
Ensure you have got the moving insurance papers in your hand before allowing transporting of your goods.
Finally make sure to have the contact number of customer support, truck driver, contact number of the branch in your destination city and any other person involved like supervisor.

I hope these tips and advice will help you relocate your home quite smoothly and save some money too. If you have more tips and advise for packing and moving, please do share by commenting and I will update the post.

Moving and Packing Tips for shifting your Home this summer

Moving and packing should be painless and smooth, right? But trust me most of the time its not! Usually the first feeling that comes when you think of moving and packing is stress. How do I Pack all these materials, where do I find the moving companies? How much money they will charge? Why not to do it all myself? And so on. These are the questions that come to your mind.

Let me share a few simple and effective tips with you to make packing and moving simple and fun.

First thing is change your mind and treat this like an opportunity to clean your home. Distinguish between goods you want to use and throw out all garbage and do some charity by donating items and belonging you are not going to use, but other needy people can use it.

See you will start feeling good about it. Magic, right?

For each and every move, the key is organizing and planning. No matter if you are shifting your home or moving for a day or two. You need to organize everything correctly and do good planning. Proper planning is your keyword. So plan and start by packing rooms and goods that is less used you like packing the guest room, library etc

You need lots of space for packing, so find a suitable space and start packing boxes.

Pack items of similar dimension and size in one box and try to do it room wise if possible. This trick will help you when you start unpacking and searching items at your new home.

For items that could get damaged easily, you should put a lot of bubble wrap or similar cushions to ensure less friction e.g. glassware.

After packing, its time to label each box correctly to ensure you don’t have to spend lots of time in finding those items.

Next Step is to find transportation or trucking company and labor to help you load these items on to the moving truck and transport it. You may also like to hire Packers and Movers to help you with moving and packing of your goods.

How to hire packers and Movers in Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad and Other cities in India

Sorry, title of this post is a little to large, but I could help it and all credits to my team for forcing me to write a manual to use MoversPackersQuotes.com to compare and hire Packers and Movers in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad and Other cities)

When it comes to packing and moving, you start wondering how to do it, where to start and how to save some money while you shift your home. We at MoversPackersQuotes.com understand this and that’s the whole purpose of this website. We give you the liberty of comparing prices from multiple Packers and movers with single click, so that you can compare, negotiate and hire the best moving companies in India to help you shift your home and that too on best competitive price.

The way it works is simple. All you are doing is submitting your requirements, possibly with as much detail as you know. Our back office team then verifies your requirements and find best match for you from our database and connect you with moving companies in India who are pre-screened and professional.

Moving companies go through your requirement, make a call to you instantly, and fix appointment to survey your goods as required and offer you an estimate.

What’s new in that, you say?

Well nothing, but the rates. Each and every moving company who is contacting you knows that other companies are also competing for this job and the only way to win this project is to offer a competitive quote. Excellent!!!

So while they compete with their peer, you get better rates and even a chance to negotiate, refuse and choose. Am I making sense?? I hope I do.

And yes we are not getting any commission or anything, but we charge those moving companies a fix annual fee to become a member. We also not promote any individual service provider and you have full freedom to choose a mover that you like the most. If in case you don’t like any of their rates, try negotiating and workout, but remember there is no obligation to hire, it up to you to decide and hire the best among the referred ones.

Let me conclude now.
No matter where on this planet you are (occasionally even from the moon), you can request a quote for packing and moving.

I could have mentioned more cities, but then there is a space limit with the title of the post. Hope to help you now or near future. If you are planning to pack and move anywhere within India or from India, you may like to give it a try.

And here is the link to that magical moving quotes request form.

Cheers!!

How to plan and schedule Packing and Moving of your Home

When you have to pack and move your home from one city to another require, a little bit of planning and scheduling is required. Proper planning and scheduling ensure you move safely and smoothly. There will be tons of items, some of them will be very important and some of them not that important and few of them could get damaged quite easily during loading, unloading or transpiration. I am going to share a few tips that will help you plan and schedule your move.

Planning and Scheduling
Planning as I said is very important and you should have a clear idea of what are the goods you will be taking with you and what items are not required.

Fix a tentative date for your move, because rest of the planning has to be done accordingly. Ideally, you should have two or three weeks time in your hand and if you have more time, then that’s even better.

Whether to do it yourself or Hire a Moving company?
You may like to do all packing, loading, unloading etc by yourself or hire a professional Packers and Movers company to help in you in packing and moving.

If you want to do it yourself, then you have to further plan and schedule dates for packing, buying packaging materials, hiring trucks and labors etc. But if you hire a Packers and Movers company, then they will take care of everything for you.

Other important things to do
No matter if you are doing it yourself or hiring a moving company, there are a few other things that is universal like:

Cancel all subscriptions of periodicals e.g. newspapers, magazines etc or get your address updated
Make sure to pay all your bills and dues for local supplies if any
Sell or donate old items like clothes, old furniture, toys etc
Check all windows and doors are properly closed before moving
Check and switch off all lights, fans etc in all your rooms before you leave
Leave a message on the main door of your old home with your new address

If you know any other tips then please share with us by commenting and I will update the post.

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Packing and Moving your Home – Know how to get rid of unwanted items and save money

When you think of packing and moving, first thing that come to your mid is how you are going to do it all and then you end up hiring a packers and movers company who help you in packing and moving your home.

Movers and Packers will charge you based on the volume of the goods that is required to be packed and moved to your new home. Of course, you may have a few unwanted or unusable goods that you are not using anymore and may not use in future either. If you are planning to pack and move everything (more items means more load), then its going to more compared to if you take only items that you require and get rid off all unusable and old items.

I have worked with a number of moving companies and have supervised several packing and moving assignments. I am going to share with you a few tips that are going to help you get rid off of unwanted items and save some money.

Creating a List of Unwanted Goods
First thing first, create a list of all items that you think is unwanted (be it usable or not usable). Include everything in this list e.g. clothes, furniture’s, old books and magazines, computers, Radio, television and whatever

Resell Unwanted Items
As you have the list of all unwanted items, you can re-sell items e.g. you can sale all old books to an old book store in exchange of some cash or another book. Similarly you can sale other stuff that can be sold. For example you can sell old furniture’s like dining table or a dressing table to a wood vendor for some cash. You may also sale these items online by posting free classified advertisements on different sites like Quikr.com

Donate Items to Charities o and NGO
You may like to donate some of your stuff to different charities and NGO who can use them. I would recommend you to donate your clothes, old shoes, sandals etc. There are various NGO who will be happy to accept these donations from you.

I hope these tips help you get rid off all unwanted items and decrease the load and the cost of packing and moving. It will also help you earn some money by reselling some of your old and unwanted items.

Do you have any other tips or advise? Share with us by posting comments below.

Should I Hire a Packers and Movers Company or Pack and Move of my Own?

This is the very first questions that you have to answer the moment you know you have to move your home. But answering these questions is really not easy and it depends more on your situation like how much time you have to move? What’s the volume of items that is to be moved? Are you moving locally or from a metro or bigger city to a bigger city? And so on. Let me help you find a suitable answer for this question.

Let me ask you a simpler question now. Do you really think you want to save some money even if you have to work a little hard to pack and move all your goods yourself? If you think you have sufficient time to plan everything and also want to save money, then you should consider doing it of your own without hiring a moving company.

But if you think you don’t have enough time to procure packing materials, and pack all your items and then move it, in that case consider hiring a packers and movers service provider to help you. This option would be a little costlier, but you won’t be taking any stress except finding and hiring a good moving and Relocation Company.

Now lets assume you want to do the packing and moving by yourself, in that case, you have to:

Procure Packing Materials from a local store
Pack all your items by yourself. You can do this slowly if you have time in hand.
While packing goods, you have to ensure all your goods are packed properly, especially items that could easily get damaged.
Once goods are packed, you have to label them
Buy transit insurance for your goods. Insurance is a must no matter if you are doing it or if you have hired a movers and packers company
Arrange a trucking company and labor to load all your goods into the truck
Once your goods are moved, you have to reach destination before the truck reaches there, and arrange labors to unload those materials
After unloading, you have to unpack and re-arrange all items

This is all that a professional moving company will be doing when you hire them. As far as cost is concerned, you will be saving on packing charges mainly. As rest of the expenses still be there. So unless money is a big constraint you should hire a professional packers and movers to help you in shifting your home.

10 Important Moving Tips to Remember When Moving Your Home

I can understand the hassles and pain one have to go through while packing for home shifting. Right from searching a moving agency to buying insurance, creating list of goods to pack and move to creating list of items that should be crapped. Everything is so stressful and not that easy. Based on my personal experience, I would like to share a few of the important moving tips to make your home shifting easy and smooth. Check out these moving tips below.

Create a list and mention almost each and every item you want to pack and shift. Create another list to separate items that you don’t want to move.
Arrange or buy sufficient packing boxes. Since you have the list if stuff to be packed and moved, it should be easy to buy packing materials. Buy a little more than you think you will need. This is very important, unless you want to compromise with the safety of your household goods.
Buy wardrobe box or cardboard in order to pack your wardrobe and other stuff that can be shifted within the wardrobe e.g. clothes that can be hanged and moved.
You may like to put small items into the bottom of the wardrobe while packing. This is just to save some space in your moving truck.
Pack items in groups like items that you need together must be packed together in the same box. This will make your life easy while searching for such items at the time of unpacking.
Start packing your items from the day one. Lots of people think, there is time and they can do it later, but trust me it will cause delays. So start packing and planning now.
Pack and carry all valuable goods like jewellery, important documents etc with yourself instead of sending it in the moving truck.
Make sure to buy sufficient insurance to ensure you don’t loose much in-case there is any mishap or an accident etc during the transit.
If you are hiring a moving company, ask them for any hidden cost, free offers like if they will offer a couple of days free warehousing if required or not.
Leave the keys of your old home and put a label on the door with your new address. Get keys of your new home in advance.

How to Hire Reliable Packers and Movers in Delhi And Gurgaon

Moving and relocation itself is a kind of tedious and complex process. From searching a packing and moving agency to selecting one, packing, loading, moving, unloading, unpacking, re-arranging etc there are several tasks and process involved. This hassle can be avoided, once you hire a professional moving company. There are thousand movers and packers in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida or NCR area, who can help you relocate with 100% guarantee of safety and timely delivery of all your household goods, car, and pets.

Why Hire Packers and Movers and instead of doing it yourself
Hiring packers and movers brings several advantages and a few of them are as under:

Since packers and movers are professionally trained and they handle all types of packing and moving, its obvious, that they will be able to handle it much better that you
They understand how to pack goods and specially the glass ware and show piece items that could get damaged easily, thus it would be wise to hire a moving company so handle your packing and moving
Usually Packers and movers have their own branch network across all major cities in India and have their own man force thereto take care of unloading, unpacking and re-arranging of goods.
They use best packing materials and also help you buy moving insurance to ensure 100 safety of all your valuable goods.
In case you need to store your goods at some place, packers and movers can help you and provide you warehousing services as well

How to Hire Packers and Movers

Contact a few of the packers and request quotes from them for moving and relocation.
Get Written quotation from at least three packers and movers
Ask for detailed cost breakup for each of the process involved in relocation e.g packing, loading, moving, unloading, unpacking etc.
Discuss about any hidden cost and clarify if cost of insurance is included in their quotation or they will charge separately.
Negotiate well with them for extra services.e.g warehousing of goods for one week after reaching destination in case you are moving to a rented house and it may take time to find a new home, or may be some kind of renovation etc
Investigate packers and movers profiles and reviews. Ask for their profile, contact information of past clients that they have served, review their profiles on Internet and check what consumer says about the packing and moving company. There are several website where you can find unbiased reviews about packers and movers written by the actual consumer who have hired their services in the past.
Always talk to three packers and movers and request packing and moving quotes so you know the charges and differences. This gives you the opportunity to compare rate estimates and hire the best relocation company.

Hope these tips can help you in hiring professional movers and packers in Delhi, Packers and movers in Gurgaon and NCR region or anywhere in the world

Hiring a Full Service Packers and Movers Company for Home Shifting

Packing and Moving is a tedious thing to do and so you have to hire a full service Packers and Movers Company for a packing and moving agency for your home shifting.

Usually you will be shifting home either within the same city or suburbs (Local Shifting) or you will be moving to a different city called domestic shifting

For Local shifting, it does not take a lot an often people find it easy, because if you want to save money, you can even do it yourself or hire a trucking company who will come with their labor, load everything on the truck and shift it

But for domestic shifting, you should always hire a professional packing and moving company. Saving a few thousand by doing it yourself may not be a wise thing to do, as you have lots of valuable things on stake.

I assume you want to hire a full service Moving and Relocation Company and sharing a few tips to help you hire them.

First thing first, find out contact numbers of four or five moving companies who have their services from your city. You may ask your friend or work colleagues or even search on Google. You may also like to post a quote request to receive call back from 3 Packers and Movers Service Providers (in India) to choose from.

Do some background check, ask for a few referrals of customers who have used their services, talk to them to see if they are capable of offering a good service etc remove shortlist three moving companies from here and invite them to survey and meet face to face to discuss the shifting.

Call them and invite them to survey your home to get an idea of what are the goods that will be packed and moved, how much effort of packing materials, labors etc will be required. Ask for the quotation including all applicable charges, like insurance, service tax, labor costs and so on.

Compare their estimates, do some negotiation by showing quotations from other companies. Moving companies are willing to negotiate most of the time, so do that to get even better deal. Now choose the best offer and schedule your shifting.