Professional Unpacking

Almost everyone knows professional movers both pack items in cartons and move your goods from one home to the next. Based on your finances, the value of your goods, and the amount of free time you have available, I would also suggest you investigate the viability of having your movers also unpack for you.

My experience has shown that most families don't opt for professional unpacking for three reasons:

They are unaware unpacking is an option. They believe the cost too much. They believe the movers will only add to the "mess"

All three are misconceptions. First, unpacking is always an option. (If not on delivery day, then a following day.) Second, packing is twice as expensive as unpacking. You have already paid "up front" for the labor to pack the box, and the boxes cost. The unpacking function, while it has a cost associated by box, is minimal when compared to the service it returns. Third: a good moving team has been in this scenario many times before, and if you are clear in your needs, are quite capable of unpacking to help your cause, not "trash" the house by piling stuff everywhere. (For example, just having them unpack the "quick cartons"- wardrobes, picture crates, bedding boxes, lampshades, books (even if stacked on the floor) will rid you of a high percentage of packing material while opening up the house, and making your rooms look like rooms again instead of liitle warehouses of piled boxes.) One caveat: no mover will put items away, be it shelves, cabinets or cubbyholes, so select accordingly what to unpack.

I know that unpacking is about 60% of the service factor on delivery, it gives structure to the house once again, and if done selectively. saves you enormous work & time for it's cost.

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