5 Mistakes to Avoid While Shifting Your Home in India

Home shifting requires a lot of planning and preparations, because there are many small tit bits involved in it. Right from searching and finding moving companies, to getting your goods packed, transported, unloaded, unpacked and re-arranged, it takes lots of attention and careful efforts to make it smooth.

As because there are several tasks that must be handled well, there is high chance of error and that’s the point of discussion today in my post. Here are the five ways to get your home shifting wrong.

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No planning and preparations in advance

Needless to say that proper planning and preparation is the key to a smooth shifting and relocation of your household goods, car or anything else.

Planning helps you create a detailed plan for everything. Right from scheduling the date by which you should be finalizing a packers and movers to scheduling dates of packing, transporting, unloading etc.

When you have time, you can analyze and plan everything properly. But when you don’t have enough time in your hand and you are in hurry, you will feel stressed and even end-up paying more. No matter whether you are hiring a mover or packing it yourself, when you have time in your hand, you will be able to do it well. Rushing at the last moment could be terrible and so you should start planning early.

You need to take a call on whether you actually want to hire a packers and movers or not? If you are not planning to hire a packers and movers for your shifting, then are you really sure that you will be able to do it yourself? If so, from where are you going to find labor and packing materials?

Preparation is to prepare the list of goods that you want to pack and get transported (shifted). Unless you have a detailed list, you won’t be able to take a decision as whether to do it yourself or hire a shifting and relocation company. If you decide to hire a relocation company then you need to have a list of goods so that you can talk to the movers and packers and get estimates.

Underestimating he complexity and doing it yourself

As I said above, there are lots of small but important tasks involved in a shifting. You may be convinced that you will be able to get it packed and moved yourself, and it is not like denting the universe. Of course you can get your goods packed and moved yourself, but you should evaluate everything thrice and then take a call.

Packers and movers service provider companies handle shifting everyday and they have much more experience and expertise than you have. They can buy packing materials much cheaper than you because they buy in bulk. So are you really sure you want to do it yourself. If yes, then go ahead and get ready to handle the stress of buying packing materials and hiring trucks and labors.

Hiring packers and movers without comparing

When after analyzing every aspect of your home shifting when you have decided to hire a trustworthy and reliable packers and movers company, you should spend some time and compare a few movers and packers companies before finalizing one.

By comparing I am not saying compare only the price, rather you should be collecting all types of information about a few companies. Evaluate them all and then take a decision.

Hundreds of new packers and movers companies are mushrooming every year and of course you cannot trust them all. Starting a packers and movers business is not that difficult and thus its is important that you pay attention to every detail that you can gather and only when you are 100% satisfied with a company, you decide to hire them.

Shifting without buying insurance

No matter whether you have decided to do your shifting by yourself or you are planning to hire Packers and Movers or a Home Shifting Company, buying adequate insurance for your goods is very important and it must be in the top of your priorities.

No one can guarantee that a box will fall while your labors are loading or unloading it. An accident could take place anytime and no one can ensure that there won’t be any damage. So it’s better to pay a little and buy insurance policy. Your goods are important and it must reach safely, but in case of any mishappening, you should be able to claim your policy.

Finally, not hiring an specialist

Packers and Movers offer complete shifting and relocation services. By complete service, I mean to say any kind of shifting and relocation, be it a bike, car, household goods, home appliances, furniture, industrial goods, shop or an office.

Also there are different types of shifting, broadly speaking, it could be a local shifting, car relocation, domestic shifting or an international shifting.

So the point I am trying to make is, it is very important that you hire a specialist shifting company depending on your requirements. If you are planning for a local shifting, you should hire a specialist local packers and movers and similarly when you are planning to move a car, you should hire car carriers service provider.

To conclude, your goods and possessions are priceless. So you better spend some time and avoid these above mistakes and employ the best moving agency for your shifting to make it a joyful, safe and fun experience.

Do you think there is other major concern one should look at? Feel free to share your experience of home shifting with us.

DIY tips for Office Shifting and Relocation

We shifted our office last week with the help of a professional office packers and movers company. But during our move (office shifting) we learned quite a bit about the overall process of office shifting.

Now I think I can handle shifting and relocation of small offices and when I can do it my self, you can also do it yourself. Let me share some simple tips to help you shift and relocate your office by yourself.

Here is the quick list of things to do while shifting your office.

  1. Create a detailed schedule for your move. While preparing schedule helps you stay on track, it also helps you see every process and track them properly. Continue reading DIY tips for Office Shifting and Relocation

Office Shifting Checklist for office relocation in India

We have moved to a new office on 1st of February, 2013. Physical distance between both new and old office was not that much and I thought it would be real simple to move to our new office. But boy, I was wrong. It takes lots of planning, co-ordination and efforts to get your office shifting right.

This post is to help you prepare a good checklist for your office shifting. There may be lots of factors and process that could be specific for your need, other may not be relevant, but I am going to talk about the most common process.

Schedule a date for Office Shifting

You should assign a deadline for shifting. Having a deadline for moving your office is going to help you speedup the rest of the process. There re so many task that must be addressed and if you don’t set a deadline for final shifting, it will be hard. So fix a date of shifting and the date of inaugurating your new office.

Is your new office operation ready?

Depending on the nature of business, you may require different kind of facilities. For example in ours case, we were setting up a new office. So right from furniture to electric works, networking to broadband connection, we had to ensure everything is in place before moving to this new office.

Different task require different consultants and experts. So before you start moving you have to ensure your new office is actually operation ready. Some of the basic requirements could be furniture, electricity, Internet connection, UPS and other backup devices, drinking water etc. Continue reading Office Shifting Checklist for office relocation in India

Ask these Questions to Packers and Movers before Hiring

Home shifting takes lots of expertise and care. Any level of mishandling or unconscious mistake could cost you. Although there is no way to guarantee the safety or timely delivery of your goods, but you can certainly ensure that you have hired the best Packers and Movers company for shifting and relocating your home or car or any other materials.

So how do you ensure you are hiring right moving company? Of course you have to ask them certain questions and you feel satisfied with their response to these questions.

Lets check it out then, shall we? Continue reading Ask these Questions to Packers and Movers before Hiring

How to Verify Credentials & Rates of Packers and Movers in India

Home shifting could be really fun and easy if you hire a reliable and trustworthy packers and movers company for your shifting. But you know, there lies the challenge. Finding a reliable and trustworthy movers and packers require a lot of screening and verification. There are many ways to verify and ensure that the packers and movers you are about to hire is really credible and that you can really trust them and had over your valuable goods to them for packing, transporting and shifting.

Lets see how to verify the credential of a moving and relocation company. Continue reading How to Verify Credentials & Rates of Packers and Movers in India

How to Prepare Your Car For Moving by Car Carriers in India

Planning to relocate your car using a car carrier? Did you know that you have to prepare your car before you hand it over to a car transporter? You cannot just handover your car to them because there are several accessories that should be removed from your car before moving. Curious to know about other preparation that you should do before transporting your car? Here they are. Continue reading How to Prepare Your Car For Moving by Car Carriers in India

Packing of Household For Moving Without Movers and Packers

Ever thought of packing and moving your household goods without hiring a packers and movers service provider? Shifting is a complicated process but one of the most challenging tasks is packing. If you can manage to pack your goods perfectly then transportation can be done quite easily.

Packing and moving is a tedious process and when you have decided not to hire any Packers and Movers company for your shifting, its better you should start planning and do proper packing of your household goods so that you can shift or transport them safely to your new home.

Packing is essentially the first thing that you have to do and it must be done very carefully to ensure safe loading, transporting and unloading of your goods. Continue reading Packing of Household For Moving Without Movers and Packers

5 Point Checklist for Local and Domestic Home Shifting in India

Relocation is almost unavoidable in today’s fast peace life. One have to relocate from one city to another and every time you shift your home, you get smarter and have better understanding of what to do and what not to do while shifting home.

Everyday hundreds of people have to shift their home from one city to another city and quite a good number of them may be shifting their home for the first time. This post is exclusively for them who wish to get a quick checklist to ensure a safe and smooth shifting and relocation of their household goods, car, bike etc. This checklist is very much valid for both local shifting and long distance relocation. Continue reading 5 Point Checklist for Local and Domestic Home Shifting in India

Home Shifting Checklist: Keep Track of Everything When Moving

Are you planning to shift your home but not sure where to start and how to go about it? We have created an extensive checklist for you to schedule and plan your home shifting efficiently in advance.

Feel free to print this Home Shifting Checklist and keep on ticking tasks as you finish them. You may also add or ignore a few of the task as per your specific need. This checklist is very much adjustable and must be adjusted based on your needs. So feel free to make edits as required as per the volume of goods, time and other resources. Continue reading Home Shifting Checklist: Keep Track of Everything When Moving

8 Useful Tips to Unpack and Re-arrange Goods After Shifting

Proper unpacking and re-arranging your goods may look easy but trust me, it is going to take lots of planning and effort to unpack and re-arrange all your goods. Similar to packing, unpacking should also be done with some planning and based on priorities.

If you have hired a Home Shifting Company to help you, then may help you unpack and re-arrange items, but if you are doing it yourself, then you must pay attention to the entire process and plan it well. Continue reading 8 Useful Tips to Unpack and Re-arrange Goods After Shifting