PACKING SERVICES
When you move house your effects will need to be carefully packed up prior to removal day.
Taxitruck can assist in many ways . The 3 main options are listed below…
Full Packing Service
This is the easiest method. We will send you a fully trained and experienced team to carefully pack all of your effects into our specially made cartons of various sizes, whilst in the process marking each carton with the relevant details of which room they are to placed at your new property. This way you won’t have to live amid boxes and cartons in the weeks leading up to your removal ensuring the least inconvenience to yourself.
Part Pack (Fragile Pack)
Worried about your Lladro, heirloom dinner service or simply your everyday tableware?
Taxitruck offers a Fragile Pack Service.
This entails you packing all your unbreakable items (in cartons provided if required) and our trained and experienced staff will pack all of your delicate items, taking the worry out of packing.
Taxitruck takes the stress out of your removal.
Owner Pack
If you are feeling brave enough to pack yourself or just want to have a good sort out, we will supply all of your packing materials to enable you to do so check out our packing tips below in advance of your forthcoming move.
Alternatively over the many years Taxitruck has been operating, customers have requested different packing services to suite their own needs ie; packing only one room or simply a treasured item such as a clock, a fossil collection, a collection of airfix models to name just a few.
Packing tips
Food: Run down food supplies as much as possible to save on your packing and lifting.
Garage/Sheds: Bundle tools and bind together. Drain petrol from mowers and strimmers. Avoid packing paint etc., but if essential, pack unpright and ensure the lid is secure.
Loft: Clear well in advance and de-clutter as much as possible. If cartons are in a reasonable condition and a reasonable size there will be no need to repack them.
Gardens Posts/Bins: Try to collate them in one area (do not attempt to move if heavy). If there are no plants in them, remove the soil.
Empty, clean and re-use bins to fill with small pots and garden tools.
Ensure all cartons are taped at the base.
Plates, bowls etc. should be wrapped in paper 3 or 4 at a time and placed on their ends.
Soft furnishings, towls, jumpers, pillows etc. can be used to line the base of the cartons to assist in protecting your fragile effects.
Mark your cartons and linen bags clearly with the name of the room you wish it to be left in. We also advise you to list the contents.
Pictures/mirrors that are small enough to fit into boxes should be wrapped in the white paper provided and packed face to face or back to back. Large pictures and mirrors should be left on the walls.
Providing all fragile items have been removed from the drawers of sideboards, dressing tables and bedside tables, they may remain full.
Bedding from a single or double devan can be loaded into the drawers and the duvets packet into linen bags to prevent you searching for them later.
If you run out of cartons call the number on the left to advise us of the size and quantity you require.
When packing/unpacking take your time and don't try to do too much in one day.
Most importantly don't leave it until the last minute!