What's a good source of packing/house removals materials (boxes, bubble wrap, corrugated cardboard, etc)?
My father is moving house - I bought a bunch of items from a nearby Big Yellow Storage place, but they seemed pretty expensive. I'm sure it must be possible to buy this stuff more cheaply elsewhere, otherwise the cost is going to rise alarmingly.
A company that can deliver to South East Essex would be most suitable.
Thanks for any suggestions, and Happy New Year to all.
Daniele
Take you're pick
Normally packaging material, boxes etc, are supplied by the removals company. Most removals companies will also like to pack "breakables" themselves. You can pack 'em your self but if anything gets broke, that they didn't pack, it won't be covered by the insurance.
Removals companies will also supply boxes before hand for you to pack "unbreakables" such as books but to be honest unless you had *a lot*(*) of books or similar it isn't worth your time.
Removals firms also like same size boxes or boxes that form a multiple of each others size. This enables better packing into the van, stops things moving about and thus reduces the chances of damage.
(*) Like floor to ceiling book cases on most walls of a room.
As stated, removal firms insurance may require they pack.
However, in order... o Foam backed bubblewrap -- free from furniture & appliance stores
---- foam is polyethylene (excellent) + bubble is double filmed for strength o Bubble wrap rolls -- on
---- true Jiffy bubble wrap is the best re repeated impact protection
---- generic bubble wrap is fine for one-use moving house
---- a big 30-100m roll goes a very long way o Boxes are very expensive new
---- you can replace with lots of supermarket boxes, appliance boxes
---- then use extra bubble wrap to compensate accordingly
Boxes usable for life, stacking, rugged polyproplyene o Really Useful Box in 64L & 85L are good forever at 9-13ukp each o
The price seems high, but they are a) very large b) re-usable for life. o Great for storing records, children, business, photos, everything o Not cheap/pricey-n-nasty like the "DIY Shed" cases, a decent design
Caveat on Really Useful Box... o Pelican cases (NATO, cameras, medical) are copolymer polypropylene
---- so you can drop them in cold weather and they will not shatter o Really Useful box are not non-copolymer polypropylene
---- so don't slam them down in near freezing conditions, they'll crack
Otherwise they are frankly the only decent re-usable box out there, that is not appreciably more than the equivalent in cardboard boxes.
their way...
Daniele
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