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Title: A tip for Moving Furniture around the House with Plastic Sheet
Author: Stephen Willett
Article:
How plastic sheet can be used to slide furniture effortlessly
around the house, negotiating tight turns and doorways. Protect
your soft furniture with heavy plastic sheet. Plastic sheet is
an invaluable aid to the furniture mover.
If you are rearranging furniture in your house, or even moving
it to a new location, professionals have a few tricks of the
trade to make moving easy and smooth.
The sheet I use is clear heavy duty sheet. It is four times the
thickness of those flimsy 'one use' furniture covers, and more
like the 'scuff proof' grade used by sofa manufacturers. Indeed
furniture shops / warehouses may be the place for the amateur
mover to scrounge some old sheet.
If you are moving a wardrobe, refrigerator or chest of drawers,
plastic sheet is a useful tool:
Fold up the sheet so it is a least 4 folds thick. You should end
up with a long rectangle, and the piece to be moved will be
placed on one end of it...You will pull on the other end. The
sheet should be of a width sufficient to take the piece, but
also pass through doorways without scrunching up and jamming.
You may not even have to move the furniture to get the sheet
underneath: You can tip up one end of the piece (just a few
degrees), and shovel enough plastic underneath it, then put the
piece down and tip up it's other end to pull the plastic out.
Not only can tall objects be easily moved through doors, but
tight right angles in corridors can be optimally traversed.
Heavy fridges become easy to move. We also use plastic sheet to
move pianos: When a piano has to be up-ended 90 degrees to get
into a doorway from a tight corridor... We usually remove the
bottom frame (kick board), the desk (the panel the written music
sits on) and the key cover. Take care that the piano's top lid
does not overhang the sides... If it is so constructed, the lip
of the top may collide with metal carpet edging... in which case
a cushion (well placed) between the plastic sheet and the
upturned side of the piano will keep the lip off the ground
The process of pulling on the sheet is smooth and controlled, so
a lot of bumping is avoided: It is kind both to your furniture
and to your house.
Mostly two people are needed: One to tip up the furniture whilst
the other arranges the plastic. One person should push the piece
while one pulls on the plastic. Two to watch both sides and call
out to avoid bumping and scraping.
On the other hand, the technique can at a pinch allow single
handed manoeuvring in some circumstances.
I always use plastic sheet for soft furnishings, like sofas and
mattresses. Sofas that have to be up ended to get through
doorways can scuff or even tear. Use heavy sheet secured with
parcel tape to encase the piece.... and always take the feet off
first. Mattresses are heavy and pick up dirt easily. The heavier
they are, the more certain it is that they will touch the ground.
Another trick my clients enjoy is to pick up a single mattress,
sheets, pillows duvets, cuddly toys and all, and wrap it up
<i>tight</i> in sheet. After moving, we then unwrap it and place
it back on the bed ready for use with a minimum of redressing.
Plastic sheet can really make moving easier.
About the author:
Stephen Willett Removals move flats, apartments, houses and
pianos nationwide from South London, Uk.
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href="http://www.student-movers-forum.com/SW-Removals.html">SW-Re
movals</a>
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