Not every move is a straightforward one with clothing, traditional boxes, and a few pieces of furniture. Some moves involve more delicate pieces, such as artwork and antiques, along with bulky, awkward shaped items such as heavy duty furniture, large wall mirrors and pool tables.
While clothing, shoes and office supplies are fairly easy to pack and move yourself, the above items can be difficult to pack on your own. If you don’t do it properly, you risk damaging the item – which likely cost you a pretty penny to begin with. When you have lots of valuables you need to pack and move in LA, you want assurances that those items are treated with extra TLC.
This is when it’s wise to hire professional white glove movers. This is an add-on moving service offered by trained experts who can relocate your luxury belongings with attention to detail. They go the extra mile to make sure your belongings are relocated safely, efficiently, and with care. This is an important service to pay for when you’re moving high-end or fragile items.
Not every moving company offers this service, though, so do your research into the companies in LA County or Orange County that provide it.
Check out these eight top benefits of hiring professional white glove movers.
1. White Glove Movers Can Handle Heavy, Bulky items
Unfortunately, amateur movers or standard movers just don’t have the experience, equipment or trucks to handle oversized and bulky items. If they go ahead and handle your unique move anyway, they can damage your goods. To avoid this, you want to be sure to hire trained white glove movers, who do have the right supplies and resources to transport your valuable possessions such as fine art and antiques.
They may even offer custom crating to ensure your most prized possessions (plasma TVs, statues and pieces of fine art, etc.) arrive at the new house with no damage.
2. White Glove Movers Offer Packing and Unpacking Services
White glove movers usually offer packing and unpacking, so if these tasks seem too daunting to you, hire them to do it instead. They can oversee the packing process from beginning to end, ensuring your most valuable pieces will be packed and transported properly. Once the valuable items in question have been unloaded at the new place, they will unpack them and put them away as directed.
Because your valuable items often involve small, intricate pieces, white glove movers may also disassemble and reassemble things like billiards tables, which have legs, pockets and other accessories. Plus, they’ll unpack all boxes, setting up your electronics and furniture correctly in the suggested spot.
3. White Glove Movers Bring Packing Supplies
By extension, white glove movers will also provide all the packing supplies necessary to get your stuff moved properly. Some of your inventory may not be very easy to pack into traditional moving boxes. White glove movers will first assess your inventory, then suggest the most efficient packing materials possible to make the process go smoothly. We can supply:
- Flat screen TV boxes
- File boxes
- Picture boxes
- Mirror boxes
- Wardrobe boxes
- Dish boxes
- Stemware boxes
- Heavy duty boxes
- Stretch wrap
- Custom bubble wrap
- Packing paper
- Packing foam
- Moving blankets
- Tie-down straps
- Mattress bags
- Tape
4. White Glove Movers Can Retrieve Items in Storage
Sometimes, items may need to be kept in a storage facility to bridge the gap between moving houses. You may be stressing over how you will remove those extra boxes and furniture, and place them in a climate-controlled storage unit. You don’t have to worry when you hire white glove movers, who can safely retrieve your possessions on moving day.
5. White Glove Movers Handle Setup, Installation, and Assembly
Once your movers have unpacked your stuff, they don’t have to stop there. They can set up stuff too, and even add pieces of décor to your new home such as hanging pictures, artwork and flat screens. They often have redesign experience and can give suggestions on where things should go in your house for the biggest impact.
6. White Glove Movers Pay Attention to Detail
This is the crux of the white glove offering. They coordinate the whole move from soup to nuts, itemizing and cataloging all belongings. They should also provide you with a digital record of the inventory to make sure all items are accounted for in the current condition, points out The New York Times. If you are a homeowner with a lot of valuables to move, this attention to detail will draw you to a white glove mover.
7. White Glove Movers Protect Your Home
While protecting your items is important, so is protecting your home while removing these items. White glove movers have custom tools in place to safeguard your home, such as floor runners to protect the floors so they stay free of debris and dirt. Custom-fit rail coverings can protect handrails and custom-fit door jamb protectors can protect doors from scratches and dings during moving day.
Ramps can also be used when moving heavy items down or up the stairs.
8. White Glove Movers Keep Your Expensive Items Safe
Any white glove mover you hire should have plenty of experience handling delicate, fragile, expensive and sensitive items such as:
- Delicate artwork pieces
- Antiques
- Expensive furniture
- Crystal and glass items
- Bulky or oversized furniture
- Temperature-sensitive items
- Fragile inventory
In the end, white glove movers offer the one thing you can’t get anywhere else: peace of mind. You should not trust just anyone with your great aunt’s lamp collection or the contents of your art collection. Pay the extra money for a white glove mover and you will reap the rewards.
Contact Good Neighbors Moving Company
To learn more about the advantages of our white glove services, please get in touch for a free quote in Los Angeles County at 323-948-6272 or in Orange County at 949-755-8568.
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