Boise Storage Tips To Help You Prepare for Moving Day
Moving is never an easy task. In fact, it can be quite the trying experience. It’s not just packing up your stuff, it’s lifting heavy items and shifting the contents of your life from one place to another. Not only can this be physically exhausting but mentally and emotionally as well. That’s why Lockaway Storage would like to provide you with the following moving and storage tips to help keep your calm intact during the process.
Make A Plan Early
Putting things off and waiting until the last minute will leave you feeling frazzled and scrambling to pull off a move. That’s why it’s important to start the process early at least two months in advance. Even more, the key to success is to create a checklist of all the things you need to do. Then, assign each task a date. Since moving is an overwhelming process, a checklist will help you stay organized by tackling different tasks each week so you can get the job done right.
Make It Official
Make sure to take the time to let your friends and loved ones know you are moving and where they can find you. You’ll also want to update your information to your bank accounts and utility companies for any service bills that you pay and fill out a change of address form at the United States Postal Service to ensure any mail arriving at your old address will be directed to your new address.
Take Inventory As You Pack
As you start the packing process, it’s important to take inventory of all your items. You can do this by creating a spreadsheet or a handwritten list of your belongings as you go along. You’ll also want to label boxes of their contents and what room they belong to. This will help you remember what you packed, where things are located, and where they should go in your new house.
Be Smart With Boise Storage
As you take inventory and start packing, you’ll want to use your spreadsheet or handwritten list to track items that are headed to your Boise storage unit. Once you start loading your storage unit, you’ll want to make sure the written portion on any boxes is visible from where they are placed and stacked. You may also want to create a map of where things are located and post it to the inside of the storage for easy future reference.
Lockaway Storage
If you’re planning an upcoming move and looking to make the process easier, Lockaway Storage has got you covered. With an on-site manager available to help you with all your storage needs, we can assist you with a large variety of storage solutions by simply by walking into our rental office!
Whether you need a small walk-in closet sized storage or something larger, we would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have and help you select a right sized unit.
Contact us at (208) 322-4487 today!
Lockaway Storage Tips For Organizing Your Boise Storage Unit
So you’ve rented a storage unit and feel confident that the experts at Lockaway Storage have found you the perfect size based on your needs. Now what? Once you arrive at our storage facility, you may be wondering how you’re supposed to get it all in. While it may seem like a challenging game of Tetris, it’s really about how often you will need to access your things.
Frequent Access
If you plan on assessing your storage unit regularly, it’s important to create a pathway to the back of the unit. Then you will want to start placing items you won’t be needing towards the back while items you plan on accessing frequently towards the front. Shelving also helps to organize your storage unit by making items more accessible.
Infrequent Access
If you don’t plan on assessing your storage unit regularly, then you have the choice to rent a smaller amount of space and pack it full. If you pack the unit high, it will also hold more. Keep in mind, however, that it’s important to place heavy items on the bottom with more fragile items on the top.
General Storage Tips
Below are some general storage tips that can help you organize your items based on how often they will need to be accessed:
- Never place sharp or heavy items on top of upholstered furniture. Also, make sure to cover your furniture with a sheet or blanket to reduce its exposure to dust.
- When stacking your belongings, it’s important to place heavy items on the bottom with light or odd-shaped items towards to the top. To make this process easier, you can mark your boxes ahead of time as light, medium, or heavy while packing. Keep in mind that you’ll need to be careful not to stack too many items on heavy boxes full of fragile items.
- To help save space and take advantage of the height of your storage unit, stand sofas and larger items on end. Later you can remove the cushions and place them on top before using the space where the cushions once were to place additional boxes.
- When storing tables, remove the legs if possible and lean the tabletop sideways on a blanket to reduce scratching. To keep important items together, you can always tape a ziplock bag full of mounts and screws to the inside of the table.
- Never place wood on wood without a cloth or cardboard layer in between the pieces.
- When storing dressers, utilize the space of the drawers to store smaller items. However, the drawers should always be empty during transit.
- To make things easier to access, make a list of box contents and a diagram of where you placed them in storage. Taking a video or a series of pictures can also help you record the contents.
Lockaway Storage
At Lockaway Storage, we strive to help make the self-storage process as stress-free as possible. By following the tips we provided above, we hope to save you the time and hassle of accessing your items to easily find what you need. For additional packing tips or information about our storage facility, contact us at (208) 322-4487. Our on-site managers would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have while providing you with advice to help ease the self-storage process.