How it works

If you are moving to your new home or sprucing your place up by adding some new items it is likely you’ll look for furniture shipping at some point. Whether we’re talking about your old furniture on removal or brand new furniture, furniture transportation is usually quite problematic. Naturally the kind of furniture in need of shipment matters – chairs and night tables could be transported in your car, however a wardrobe or a kitchen table could be problematic to ship. If you posses a van, you can ship the cargo on your own, but in most cases you’ll need assistance from a transport provider. In search for a solid solution with a reasonable price, try using a transport marketplace, for example Clicktrans.

Preparing furniture for transportation

When planning to move your furniture, there are a couple of steps you should follow, while preparing them for transportation. Firstly, remember to remove all the contents from the furniture – even if things inside are few. Jolts and vibrations are inevitable on the road and all of the items moving freely inside your furniture may damage it. Not to mention that furniture without any content will be easier to ship.

Disassemble what you can – if your furniture can be dismantled without damage and shipped in parts, it will be the safest way to ship it. A bookcase in pieces will also be much easier to place inside of a van. The major disadvantage of shipping furniture in pieces is that the disassembling can be time-consuming, as improperly dismantled furniture might be hard or downright impossible to reassemble after transportation. Also – you must be extra careful when shipping all the really small pieces (like pins or screws). It’s safer to ship them together, e.g. in a Ziploc bag.

Some types of furniture (for example antiques) mustn’t be disassembled and must be transported in one piece. How to transport them securely? The possibility that you have a box suitable to fit an armchair is not high, but there are other ways to secure it for the time of transportation. When securing furniture for the time of transportation bubble foil is essential. Wrap all the fragile elements as well as all the corners with bubble wrap to prevent your load from damaging if anything crashes into it during transportation. If you don’t have bubble wrap, you can try using cardboard to secure the corners.

If your furniture has some exceptionally delicate parts (for example made of glass) you have to be especially careful during shipment. If it’s possible, you should ship them separately, enclosed in thick layer of cloth as well as bubble wrap (all glass shelves should be shipped that way). If it can’t be dismantled, enclose it in additional layers of bubble wrap. Don’t forget to mention to the hauler that he’s transporting fragile load.

Like we’ve mentioned before, most of the time you will require help with transporting furniture. When looking for a transport provider it’s convenient to find out whether he offers assistance with loading as well as unloading. Remember to mention the floor they should be taken from and the floor they must be transported to – and if there is an elevator the haulers can use.  

If your furniture is of great value (even if it’s just sentimental) you should consider finding a transport provider that has a carrier liability insurance. Hiring him will probably cost more, however should something happen to your furniture during transportation, you will be entitled to reimbursement.

Price of furniture shipment

Since furniture is a quite wide section, a price of furniture transportation can be rather hard to predict. When estimating the cost of transportation you should consider the route length, whether it’s a domestic or an international job, how big and how heavy the cargo is, if the load is fragile etc. A good way to lower the price of furniture shipment is to hire a transport provider who will take your furniture as a partial load – thanks to partial loads you can pay considerably less for the transportation, keeping high quality of the service.