The process of moving personal belongings or company property into storage can feel arduous, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Just by writing down the steps (or reading this blog) you can get your head around the safe and organised transportation of your things. When you break it down into these five steps, the process can feel much more achievable.
Of course, it helps when you have a storage team like Moor Room on your side, offering personal storage space in a range of locations and sizes to suit the needs of Melbournians.
Make sure to get in touch for any more advice on self-storage and browse our website for information on space calculation, locations, and all your packing equipment needs.
Write an Inventory
The first mistake many people make when placing items into self-storage is to make no record of what they’ve stored. This makes it near impossible to keep track of your storage space, where your belongings are, and how much room you have left over.
So, before you’ve taped any boxes or hired that moving van, your first step is to keep a record of items moved.
Without this knowledge, you’ll need to make an unnecessary trip to your local Moor Room to sift through all your boxes.
We highly recommend keeping an inventory of all stored items and organising this list to your heart’s content.
Packaging & Labels
Once you have created your inventory and start to pack things into boxes, you’ll need the perfect packaging materials to keep things safe in transit and storage.
While Moor Room can be sure your boxes will remain protected and untouched in a secure self-storage unit, we cannot be sure that they’ll stay safe while rocking around in your vehicle. That’s why items like wraps, paper, and fragile stickers are of the utmost importance to the process.
When packing fragile items, make sure to protect sharp corners that could pierce their box, and lay more wrap or paper on the most fragile parts of the item – the screen of a television, for example.
Once you’ve safely packed your boxes, it’s essential to label each box with a summary of its contents.
This removes the need to open each box as you search for a long-lost item on your return to your storeroom. Simple labels such as the room they belong in can work well, but some cases call for more specificity. All that matters is you can tell what is inside the box without having to open it.
Storage Unit Near You
When transporting things into self-storage, you don’t want to be driving for ages each time you visit. That’s why Moor Room has spread out its five locations around Melbourne’s east and southeast, so that locals can access their storage unit in relatively short time.
This idea is why we suggest finding a storage unit near you that is convenient and cost-effective on travel costs too. If you’re storing things as a business, you may need to access the unit every other week and taking time away from the storefront can be costly. All to say that the best way to transport things into self-storage is to minimise the length of transport itself.
Moving Van
Finally, we get down to the physical movement of goods itself. Your chosen vehicle can make or break the self-storage experience, not least of all because it can become the costliest factor.
There are many vehicular options when moving things into self-storage, such as using your daily drive, a rental van, Uber carshare, or outsourcing the labour and transport to a professional moving company such as Man With A Van.
We would ask movers to consider their budget, physical ability, time constraints, and volume of things to transport, as these factors will all effect how you move your belongings.
Hiring a moving van can cost anywhere from $100 to hundreds of dollars per day, which may be affordable for some and less so for others. However, if you only have a day or two to move your things, a larger vehicle may be your only option to reduce the number of trips required.
If you need more advice on how to transport your belongings, get in touch with our team and we’ll help to get you on the move.
