Stumped on Moving Heavy Appliances?

Moving your furniture and all your belongings when you switch homes is bad enough considering all the work that’s involved. But when you have to deal with extremely heavy objects like refrigerators or washing machines, things are especially annoying. More often than not, you’ll almost always need another person to help you move something for your own safety. Our few solutions to heavy items are no different: be sure to have someone helping you, even if these methods only require one person to do the moving itself. Getting items underneath big items still requires someone else to tip something to one side so that you can slide it beneath the object. Make sure you’re enlisting help when moving these things, if we haven’t stressed it enough. I mean, just use common sense and you should be good.

If you’re looking for other ways to move your heavyish items, look no further! We’ve got alternative things, like packaging supplies and more, for you.

Lifting straps

I’m sure you’ve seen them before, but they are are relatively uncommon but some of the most ingenious things to assist lifting heavy items. Some straps connect to your forearms to quickly and easily get to moving, whereas others have a harness that goes around your midsection for even heavier items. Think about investing in these if you’re young enough to need them for the rest of your life or old enough to need them for the safety of your neck and back.

Furniture quilts

If you had never heard of this, just imagine a quilt and, well, that’s all it is. But seriously, these are best for protecting furniture during the shifting caused by moving vehicles, they double as a drag blanket, too. Much like the use of cardboard, putting a furniture blanket beneath heavier items makes it easy to drag your furniture along flooring without damaging the flooring or the item.

Cardboard boxes

You don’t even have to pay for these! Excess boxes can be broken down into “shims” of sorts that allow you to drag heavy things across carpet, hardwood floor, and linoleum easily enough to not have to really lift the object off the ground. The reason this method really shines, however, is that it protects your flooring. You won’t have to worry about the feet of the furniture or appliance dragging against whatever flooring you have down since the cardboard will be between both.

These packaging supplies are made to protect your floors, your back, and your property. Make good use of them.