Every move is different.  There are certain categories of people who tend not to have as many possessions to move.  This includes students, young professionals who must move often for their career, military families, and couples in retirement.   When these people relocate, they must plan a small move.

Eastern MA: Planning the Small Move

Small moves are not necessarily simple moves. Think carefully about choosing to move yourself.  Hiring a Eastern MA moving company that specializes in small moves is a good first step.  When you choose an Eastern MA moving company, select one that has no minimum load size requirements.  This keeps you from paying for truck space and services you don’t need.

To make sure that your possessions arrive at your destination location safely and in one piece, have your Eastern MA packing company handle your more fragile and valuable items.  Shipping antique furniture, shipping artwork, and shipping computers and electronics are the three biggest challenges involved in the small residential move.

Custom crating is the art and science of building individually designed and sized boxes to hold your fragile items.  These boxes can be custom cardboard shipping boxes or wooden shipping crates.  Custom crating is used for shipping antiques, computers, and electronic items.  Shipping artwork also requires custom crating, especially if you’re shipping sculptures.

Protect your interests by selecting the best shipping insurance.  This coverage protects your items from pick up to delivery, providing you with peace of mind! If you have any more questions about planning your small move, contact us: we’d be happy to help!

Well, actually, wrong.  Completely and totally wrong.  That’s why we were recently dismayed by this Washington Post article in which it’s suggested that a mover could construct their own shipping crates to save moving expenses.

Let us be clear here.  There are certain circumstances in which building your own shipping crates is a perfectly acceptable option. Those circumstances are if you’re an experienced builder, who understands the unique stresses and pressures shipping crates are subjected to, and knows the best way to cushion and protect the contents of the crate – no matter what.  Also important is access to the right high quality materials and tools to get the job done right.  Of course, you want to make sure you have the time and space to build crates – which is rare, when you’re in the middle of moving your household or business, but it could happen.

However, if you can’t realistically say that you are an experienced shipping crate builder with material, time, and the skills needed to build a shipping crate, it might be better to leave the task to an professional packaging and shipping company.  When you consider the cost of having the job done right, by the pros, against the hassle of having to do it yourself — and the anxiety of not knowing if your possessions will arrive safely! — having shipping crates built specifically for your moving needs becomes the obvious option.

Valuable, fragile objects, such as chandeliers, artwork, large mirrors, antiques, and more are best moved in sturdy shipping crates built specifically to protect and cushion that item.

Yet have you ever thought about how they’re made? If you’ve ever pondered wooden shipping crates construction, perhaps you’ve imagined a very boring workshop, where gnomes pound out box after box after box, an endless pile of pine planking and plywood panels at the ready. Not so. Wooden shipping crates construction is far more complex and involved than you ever might have imagined.

For one thing, not all crates are created equal. Wooden shipping crates construction needs to take several things into account: what will the crate be used to carry? Is it okay for the contents of the wooden shipping crate to shift during transportation or must they remain locked safely in place? The answer to that question will have a great impact on wooden shipping crates construction.

Additionally, how far will the crate have to travel? A wooden crate that’s crossing town does not have to be as sturdy or substantial as one going into a container ship crossing the Pacific. Wooden shipping crates construction involves crafting a crate that can stand up to the job at hand.

Custom wooden shipping crates construction is becoming increasingly popular. Having wooden shipping crates constructed to hold products perfectly in place, protecting them from the trials and tribulations of transport, cuts down on damage and breakage costs. Additionally, as environmental concerns are becoming increasingly more important in every sphere, wooden shipping crates construction companies are designing multi-use units that can deliver products safely without requiring a new crate every time. This is a great boon cost wise, and can also help companies that are trying to ‘green’ their corporate image. 

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We are a member of Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association. NELMA is pleased to offer IPPC ISPM 15 certification inspection services to facilities that produce wood packaging materials (WPM) such as boxes, crates, skids, pallets, etc. destined for use in exporting goods to the numerous countries that have implemented the International Standard for Wood Packaging.