Removals to/from Latvia – save up to 60%

Changing house is one of the most ordinary happenings we can encounter in our life. And despite the fact we change the place we live in at least a few times in our lifetime, removals are still some of the most trying situations possible. Just figuring out the organization of moving everything you have between houses is an enormous task and with securing your belongings for transportation, unpacking and choosing the best company to help you with the move, it seems truly huge as well as quite nerve-wracking. Fortunately there are a few ways to make the move as efficient as possible and significantly less stressful.

Packing and securing your items for transportation

The most important thing you should remember while preparing for the removal is that you should create a clear list of steps that you’ll have to abide by through the whole process. It is smart to make a list of all the things you need to transport. It will not only make the packing easier but also will allow you to make sure that all of your things were successfully transported to its place of destination. Removal calls for transporting a great deal of various items, including a big amount of small things that are easily forgettable under the pressure of time – an inventory will ensure that you will remember to check if they all arrived to your new home safely. The next important step is tagging all the boxes as precisely as you can. One of the most helpful ways of tagging boxes is by the room name. For example all the kitchen accessories as well as appliances should be placed into cardboards labelled ‘kitchen’, all the duvets as well as jewellery in the cardboards labelled ‘bedroom’ etc. You’ll quickly find out how time-saving tagging can be once you start the unpacking. Don’t forget to tag both sides and the top of the box, so that you (and the hauler) can be sure which cardboard goes where, regardless of how they will be placed inside the transporting car.

Be extra careful when preparing to transport delicate items. Wrap them in thick layers of fabric or bubble foil and then label them clearly (together with a “This way up” label). You also need to make sure that the transport provider knows that he’ll be transporting fragile goods as well as which cardboards have to be handled with caution.

When you are shipping furniture, it’s important to take everything out of them prior to the removal and ship all the things inside individually. Any unattached things in closets and cabinets can harm your furniture during transportation. It’s also good to secure all the furniture doors and drawers using tape so that they cannot open during shipment. You may use regular Scotch tape to do that. Another issue is the matter of loading the furniture into the shipping car. Before trying to move your furniture from the house, be certain that you’ll be able to transport them via front doors, stairways and into the elevator (if your building has one). If they do, you’ll be able to transport them without dismantling (be sure to have at least one person to assist you!). If they cannot, dismantling them is the only way to move them safely. Be cautious with dismantling – make sure you have all the nails and screws gathered for example in a Ziploc bag and that you’ve secured all the parts of the furniture sufficiently. Dismantling furniture is also smart when you need to fill the shipping vehicle to the maximum, because dismantled furniture will be much easier to stack efficiently.  

When packing smaller things, such as magazines, kitchen appliances, decorations and so on, cardboards will be the smartest choice. It’s probable that you will need more boxes than you have – but there is a few ways to acquire some more. For example you may buy new cardboards in most of the home-improvement and construction stores. But as you’ll probably require quite a few boxes, you may choose a more budget-friendly way. Visit your local shops and ask if they have some cardboards they no longer need. Shops usually possess a lot of needless boxes and they are usually willing to give them away. 

Another options, instead of boxes will be using bags, especially for storing textiles and small items. There is a much bigger possibility that you have some bags already at home. As mentioned, bags will serve as a sufficient alternative for storing textiles, magazines as well as little items, but unfortunately they have a couple of disadvantages. Bags are much more flimsy than boxes and prone to breaking, if you decide to use them for transporting items with edges (like books, stationery and so on). Also – stacking bags on top of each other is much more difficult than stacking boxes the same way.

One of the most difficult things to ship are houseplants. It’s usually safest to transport them individually, however if something prevents you from doing that, you need to be certain that the hauler knows what he will be transporting. A day before the removal water the plants generously and let them sit. It’s important that the plants have enough water to endure the shipment, but it’s equally important to let them absorb what they can before putting them in a box (you have to pour off the excess water from the saucer, so that it won’t soak through the cardboard).

Selecting the best transport provider

Certainly, besides suitably securing your items for the removal, it is equally crucial to select a suitable transport provider. Which aspects of transportation should you take into consideration while making your decision? Cost of the service, of course, is of importance, particularly on longer, routes between countries, but that’s just one of the things to consider. Whenever transporting everything you have you have to firstly think if your things will be properly protected when given to the transport provider. Whenever posting your listing on a transport marketplace, like Clicktrans, you not only may ask possible transport providers all the questions you require an answer to before making your decision about a transport provider but moreover you may check out feedback left by former customers on each transport provider’s profile page. Nothing is more reliable than feedback left by someone who’s already hired the hauler you are considering.  

The cost of removal

Price of removal is pretty difficult to estimate, as it changes, sometimes drastically because of how much the cargo weights and how big it is or the route length. If you plan to ship a lot of delicate things, the price is likely to go up. The same goes for removals between countries – domestic routes are frequently cheaper than shipping your things into another country.