As you vacate your old location, you'll wish to decrease damage as much as possible. Failure to do this could imply some quite huge headaches for you at closing time. Clearly, you'll likewise wish to protect your new place as you go in.
There are a number of things you can do to make sure that your new and old homes are safeguarded from the dangers of the moving process.
What you'll need
When safeguarding your floorings, walls, carpets, and banisters, you'll need a few materials:
Medium-to-large sized boxes (like wardrobe cartons).
A boxcutter.
Packaging tape.
Loading blankets.
Adhesive carpet runners.
Drop fabrics.
Loading paper.
Corner guards.
How to secure your house.
Let's start with securing your floorings. Protect the flattened boxes together with some packaging tape so they do not move around.
Your next action is the banisters. They can be covered in tidy packaging blankets. Protect them with packaging tape by taping the blanket around itself. Do not put loading tape straight on completed wood. It may leave a gummy residue and even remove the surface off.
Look for any walls that are in danger of being scratched and protect them with cardboard boxes, packing blankets, or ground cloth. Simply tape them up there. Corners that are going to receive high traffic can be easily protected with corner guards, which are simple to install if you follow the guidelines on the maker's product packaging.
Carpets and carpets can be safeguarded with adhesive carpet runners, packing blankets, this page or drop cloths. In a pinch, you can also just put some packing paper down to protect a nice rug you are working on.
If it's especially damp or untidy outside, laying a cardboard walkway down can also usefully serve as a flooring mat.