Preparing to move homes or offices is an intensely involved endeavor filled with checklists, logistics planning, coordination of services, and usually a fair bit of stress. Seasoned Moving Labor Dallas have handled thousands of local, long-distance, and commercial moves serving the greater Dallas area.
Through these countless residential and office relocations we have seen every kind of oversight and mishap imaginable when customers prepare and pack for their big move. Don’t become another cautionary tale or disappointing statistic!
To help make your upcoming Dallas-area move as seamless and headache-free as possible, our professional movers and logistics experts at Moving Company Guys have compiled this list of the top 12 moving preparation mistakes committed by customers along with tips to avoid them:
- Not Thoroughly Purging and Decluttering Possessions
The number one mistake witnessed by our Moving Labor Dallas crew time and again is customers moving boxes upon boxes of low-use possessions that ultimately just clutter up their new home. Weeks before moving day, go through every closet, cabinet, drawer, shelf and storage area and be brutally honest about what you actually need and use in the past year.
Our Dallas downsizing and space optimization tips include only keeping true keepsakes/heirlooms sparingly, holding a garage sale, donating unused clothes and goods to charity, and recycling old electronics and bulky items you’d be better off replacing.
- Using Inferior Packing Methods
You want all boxes and items being transported by our Moving Labor Dallas team to be packed properly using quality moving boxes, bubble wrap, and other sturdy packing materials. Some common packing mistakes involve overstuffed boxes that break easily, poorly labeled boxes with vague or missing room details, not wrapping fragile items correctly, unsafe transport of liquids.
Ensure you or your self-service packing helpers understand correct ways to evenly distribute weight, wrap specialty items like artwork or lamps, and label boxes according to final destination room in your new residence. This helps our movers tremendously in getting boxes seamlessly unloaded and unpacked on the other end.
- Failing To Set Aside Essentials from the Relocation
When our team of professional movers shows up prompt and prepared for your scheduled Loading Day with Moving Labor Dallas, essential personal items like medications, valuables, laptops, or vital tools you anticipate needing urgently should already be set aside for separate transport and excluded from the possessions going with movers on the truck.
This avoids frustrating 11th hour delays scrambling to retrieve urgently required items that customers assumed would easily be accessible mid-move but wind up buried under pile-ups of furniture and boxes on our truck. Mark them clearly as separate essentials to travel with you.
- Neglecting to Prepare Needed Moving Tools/Supplies
Far too often our packing crews lose productive time on arrival because customers have failed to ensure basic moving tools and supplies have been set aside and are easily accessible. Small oversight but massively unhelpful! The last thing you want is movers from our ace Moving Labor Dallas team wasting 15 minutes looking for something as simple as tape or scissors when moving boxes tear open or packing supplies unexpectedly run low at an inopportune time.
Make sure you have a dedicated Moving Kit pre-stocked several days in advance of move day. It can be a sturdy sealed tub or toolbox containing all materials you anticipate needing: tape, box cutters, bubble wrap, permanent markers, zip ties, furniture sliders, rope, pliers, hammer, pry bar, headlamps in case of loading/unloading in the dark or power outages. Also ensure adequate hydration and snacks on standby for the heavy lifting crews as sugar/electrolytes maintain energy levels.
- Disassembling Furniture Prematurely
Eager but often misguided customers frequently start dismantling bed frames, bookcases, tables, entertainment units and other furniture days before their scheduled Loading Day appointment with our Moving Labor Dallas crew. This not only exposes disassembled items to potential damage while lying in pieces, but also ultimately adds significant extra work for movers down the line when it comes to reassembling all the furniture at destination residence or office. It also creates confusion separating hardware pieces.
Our advice? Resist temptation and leave furniture dismantling until the arrival of our professional movers on loading day when the truck and boxes are lined up ready to transport items immediately. Our crew knows all the tricks of the trade when it comes to rapid, safe disassembly and reassembly.
- Severely Underestimating Necessary Time Duration
One of the major reasons unexpected delays or problems occur on frantic moving days relates directly to customers drastically underestimating the realistic duration for how long loading, transport or unloading stages will take based on their total household contents or office inventory needing relocated by our top-rated Dallas moving labor squad.
When initial move details are provided to our scheduling coordinator, be sure to accurately account for ALL rooms, spaces and the possessions within them for our team to relocate, not just the contents of bedrooms and living rooms. Omitted areas involving lots of equipment or inventory like packed garages, attics, storerooms, sheds, basements surprise customers when extra hours pile up on moving day. Build in buffers!
- Forgetting Essential Pre-Move Service Transfers
In all the hustle and bustle of packing your current home and preparing new residence, one of the most common pre-move oversight is customers completely forgetting essential service cutoffs, transfers and connections in the days immediately preceding their relocation date coordinated by Moving Labor Dallas.
This drops an hugely inconvenient bombshell when our crew successfully unloads all your belongings at the new pad on schedule, only to have the customer sheepishly realize they now have no electricity, cable/internet, garbage pickup arranged because of last minute scramble to address shutoffs at their old address while failing to schedule activations at their new address. Avoid self-imposed power, water and connectivity outages by confirming all service transfers at least two weeks beforehand if possible. Planning saves the tears!
- Failing To Thoroughly Measure Access Points and Staircases
How often have you heard “Measure twice, cut once” when doing home renovation or construction projects? The same principle applies when preparing for the arrival of moving trucks, equipment and furniture from Moving Labor Dallas to both your current residence as well as new property.
Far too often our crews encounter situations where standard couches, mattresses or awkwardly shaped items barely squeeze through internal staircases or narrow exterior access doors. This requires emergency modifications like removing sliding glass doors temporarily or utilizing special lifting equipment to pivot items around obstructed corners. Prevent these predicaments by carefully measuring the widths/heights of all entry points, interior stairwells as well as elevator cab sizes if equipment delivery involved. Customer homework avoids crew headaches!
- Not Planning Out Clearly Marked Item Designations
As soon as our loading crew from Moving Labor Dallas arrives at your home to commence packing boxes and mobilizing furniture onto our truck, wasted time and spiraling confusion unravels like clockwork if items and boxes have not been marked out clearly ahead of time with their ultimate room destination at your new house.
Print out a detailed floor plan of your new property with all rooms accurately labeled. As items are packed up and sealed, immediately mark their future locations. Distinct room color codes work very well too. This allows our unloading team to mobilize directly from truck to correct rooms rapidly versus puzzling over cryptically marked boxes while blocking hallways and wasting hours. Signage saves spines!
- Failing to Inventory and Label Box Contents
Equally as unhelpful as omitting room designations is customers not creating a master inventory list summarizing general contents categorized within each moving box for quick referral. Confusion strikes quickly for movers urgently trying to answer customer queries about where specific items got packed away.
Avoid playing hide and seek on frantic move day by securing a notebook designated solely for move inventory. As items get boxed up room-by-room, take 5 minutes to note box #’s and quick list of approx. contents itemized. Distribute copies to your own personal moving binder as well as provide one to our Moving Team foreman upon arrival. Updated manifests mean mellow moves!
- Attempting Dangerous DIY Loading/Unloading
In the interest of saving money or feeling self-sufficient, some daring customers take the risky gamble of renting trucks themselves and attempting perilous solo loading/unloading without proper equipment or manpower. Aside from frequent scratching or damaging of belongings, severe back strain and injury are common outcomes.
Our crews constantly rescue overzealous weekend warriors who threw out their backs trying to muscle heavy furniture down stairs or getting rolled ankles stumbling off truck tailgates balancing washing machines and flatscreens solo. Protect yourself and family members against preventable moving misery! Fork over reasonable fees to insured Moving Labor Dallas pros versus destroying the new dream home buzz with Band-Aid filled visits to nearby orthopedic clinics or chiropractors. Let the 18” biceps brigade handle the sweat equity!
- Not Respecting Weight Limits On Moving Truck
A parting reminder when prepping to dispatch our trucks fully loaded with your worldly goods to your desired destination in the Dallas/Ft Worth metro area: failure to respect realistic weight limitations on commercial transport trailers leads to dangerous, even illegal scenarios jeopardizing our trucks, drivers and the safety of fellow motorists on Texas highways and roads.
Though our trailers may look massive and indestructible, regional DOT moving regulations legally mandate load thresholds well below perceived capacity to keep vehicles balanced and operating properly over long distances. Prevent unlawful overloading! Shoulder the costs for supplemental trucks/trips if inventories exceed single trailer allowances. Broke axles and busted tires benefit no one. Keep that trailer anchored down legally!
Mistake-Free Moving with Moving Labor Dallas
Don’t become a painful statistic with moving debacles ending badly purely because of lack of sufficient preparation and planning! Moving Labor Dallas offers end-to-end relocation services seamlessly handling all aspects of preparation, packing, specialized item disassembly, loading, secure Sanitized transport and final unpacking/setup getting you moved into your gleaming new home or productive new office space with no regret or remorse over avoidable disasters.
Moving Company Guys have a comprehensive customer-rated moving blueprint guaranteeing efficiently executed residential and commercial moves in the Dallas, Plano and Garland. Contact our friendly, responsive team today to start planning your easy, breezy move!
Garland: Moving Company Guys – Movers Garland TX 2913 Big Oaks Drive, Garland, TX 75044
Dallas: Moving Company Guys – Dallas 3333 Lee Pkwy, Suite 600, Dallas, TX 75219
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