How Fine Art Movers Take Care of Moving Fragile Items?

When it comes to ship fragile items, such as vases, porcelain items, paintings or fine art, you might want to choose anything to ensure utmost protection of your items during transit. Packing your items properly is definitely the first step to safe shipping while choosing the right shipping service is just as important. Most of the fine art movers have prepared some guidelines that should make packing fragile items easier for you. And because we only work with the leading logistics providers, the second part of the task has already been taken care of. It is important to follow the given instructions, since the shipping insurance will not be applicable if your fragile belongings get damaged. Courier companies do not generally allow shipping fragile items or liquids. However, there are many events in which this is unavoidable. Just make sure that you secure your items very well before you hand them to one of the residential movers.

Even though delicate items are more susceptible to to damages than most other items, choosing the right type of packaging materials and moving company can contribute knowingly to safe transportation.

Here are some tips for booking shipping services the leading fine art movers:

• If you are transporting fragile items of larger dimensions, make sure you choose the right shipping service by using the given shipping cost calculator.
• If the pick-up country in your case is either Poland, Sweden or Spain or if you chose “First possible pick-up time” service upon booking, you will have to print the shipping label and put it on your parcel. In other scenarios, the courier will do this for you.
• If you are willing to leave the pick-up address in the near future, make sure you place the order a minimum of 2 days before your departure to avoid any complications.

Detailed packaging is important for safe shipping. The packing material for fragile items you need is the following:

1.  Cardboard boxes of various sizes – the boxes do not need to be fresh and you can really reuse the ones you get from a supermarket for free. You should, however, always make sure that the boxes you are willing to use don’t contain any dents and are in good state.
2. Packing peanuts – for internal mitigating of the cardboard boxes. You can buy them at hardware stores.
3. Bubble wrap – for safeguarding individual parts. It can be bought at any stationery or hardware store.
4. Packing paper –for securing delicate items. You can buy packing paper at any stationery or hardware store as well as at the supermarket.
5. Polystyrene – it should be strong enough to secure your box from the outside. You can buy it at a hardware store.
6. Adhesive tape – will be needed for sealing and thoroughly covering the shipment.
7. Scissors– for cutting the cardboard box and/or other materials into suitable sizes.