Safety Tips For Your House Move

Feb 19
08:24

2013

Eva Cyrus

Eva Cyrus

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A move is said to be successful when it is free of stress and damage. The chances of injuries are high during a move. The things you have placed in the hallway can become the reason of your fall. Lifting heavy objects incorrectly can cause a back injury.

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Take care of your Back

When you are moving by yourself,Safety Tips For Your House Move Articles lift the heavy things with care. Before lifting something take some time and assess the weight of the thing you want to lift. Don’t try to lift items by yourself which are too heavy for you. Get some help from some family member or friend when you want to lift items which are not easy to lift by yourself. Remember, you are not in some competition where you have to show your strength by lifting heavy things so take it easy.

One more thing; when you are packing your boxes, don’t put the box on the ground for packing. Raise it from the ground a bit to make things easy for yourself. You can place the box on some table or chair and make sure that there is no chance of falling during packing.

Don’t put boxes in pathways

When you have packed a box the next thing is where to put it? You can gather the boxes in a room which is near to entrance and make sure that you are not blocking pathways with packed boxes. When there are things in your way while you are working, this will definitely decrease your efficiency and the chances of injury during relocation are increased.

Put heavy things at the bottom of box

While packing your things, put heavy items at the bottom of the box. This will help in balancing of the box and evenly distributed weight will decrease the chance of damage during transit. During packing, don’t put heavy things on one side. This will make the box difficult to carry and adjust.

Pack light objects together in a big box

There are various sizes of card boxes which are easily available. Pack light weighted items together in a large box. A large box is easier to lift when light weight items are packed in it. Try not to make the box too heavy that it becomes impossible to lift.

Pack heavy objects in separate small boxes

Heavy items like books and electrical appliances should be packed in small box. This makes the lifting easy and safer. Pack several small boxes is better than packing a big box that’s lifting becomes a problem.

Trust your removals firm

When you have got services of a removal company, it is better that you let them do their work. Relocation is a routine work for them and they can do it in a better way. You’ll be amazed to see the way they do the work. Lifting heavy things is easy for them as they got different equipments which make the work easy. You can give them suggestions and define the things you want in case they are not doing things according to your requirements.

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