No one likes to move, having to move house is never a simple thing. Unless you live in a rented studio apartment, when you have to transport entire furnishings and mountains of objects, you need to contact specialized companies. Before thinking that the cost of a move is who knows what expense, just look for a company operating in the sector and request a simple quote. Within a short time we will be able to realize that often the fears of prohibitive costs are completely unfounded.
Who to contact
Do-it-yourself is a completely unadvisable option. Except for rare cases in which actually to move it is enough to rent a small van to transport the few boxes with personal items, most of the time it is essential to contact experts in the sector. Fortunately, thanks to the Web today we have a wide range of choices. On the net we find many companies able to provide this type of service and we can also request more estimates to be able to compare costs.
Thanks to a fleet of vehicles which include: aerial platforms, mobile cranes, ladders, every situation can be tackled without problems.
The main services offered concern the removal of houses, offices, national, international, special transports and also a convenient furniture storage and custody service.
In the event of a house move, the company is able to guarantee a service that includes:
– packaging of all the objects present in the home, with the use of special materials in the case of fragile objects such as glassware, glass and ceramic crockery;
– creation of special boxes for the transport of valuables;
– disassembly and subsequent reassembly of all the furniture in the home, including the modular kitchens;
– use of aerial platforms with lifts and ladder trucks capable of reaching up to 73 meters in height.
– disposal of any unused furniture or other material and final clearing.
If you decide to do it yourself, it is still possible to request the rental of vans of different sizes, buy packing boxes of all sizes and rent an individual box for the storage and custody of furniture.
Costs of a move
It is practically impossible to say how much such a move can cost on the spot. As mentioned, the only possibility is to request a quote. We can decide to make an appointment with an operator who will come to our house to assess the real situation and create an ad hoc estimate. Another possibility that we also find on the website is to request an online quote. In this case we will have to provide all the data in the most precise and detailed way possible in order to have a very reliable cost estimate.
To calculate the cost of a move, various factors must be taken into consideration, more precisely:
- logistics: the cost will differ according to the type of home. Moving an apartment on the 6th floor is very different from a location on the ground floor. The use of aerial platforms, cranes or ladder trucks involves costs not only for the rental of the vehicles, but for the necessary permits to occupy public land.
- square footage: the bigger the house, the higher the cost of the move. It is a logical fact, houses of large sizes require a high number of furniture and a consequent greater use of time and energy.
- types of furniture: if many pieces of furniture such as wardrobes have to be completely disassembled, the relative cost must also be foreseen for the subsequent reassembly in the new home. The same goes for modular kitchens.
- type of objects: the greater the number of fragile and delicate objects, such as glassware, porcelain, ceramics, the greater the cost of packaging and the time required for packaging.
This also applies to items of particular value that require special crates to ensure safe transport.
We often think that moving is something simple. In reality it requires a lot of work, not only purely physical, but above all organizational to stay within the (usually tight) deadlines requested by the customer and to guarantee a satisfactory final result.
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