How to Protect Your Floors During a Move

By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group 

Luckily, there are some reliable strategies to keep your flooring safe during the move-out and subsequent move-in activity. With some simple actions, you can keep your floor surfaces devoid of scuff marks, dirt, and stains on moving day in El Paso.

Before Moving Day:

In your lead-up to moving day in El Paso, you may make your work less difficult by planning several things beforehand.

Set Aside Floor Covering Supplies

While you're packing, set aside materials that can be used as household furniture pads or flooring covers as you go along. Any area rugs, welcome mats, or plastic floor mats you've got are incredibly beneficial at this time. You may also make use of tarps, towels, or old blankets. And in many places, flattened strong cardboard can be a decent floor protecting choice.

Whatever you do not use on the floor surfaces, you can wrap around pieces of furniture to circumvent wall scuffs and cushion carrying grips.

· Rugs & Floor mats

· Plastic Tarps

· Bathroom towels

· Old Throw-Away Blankets

· Durable Flattened Cardboard

Felt Protectors on All Furniture Feet

With or without a professional moving company in El Paso, a certain amount of furnishings are going to scoot. Moving day is filled with shifting, lugging, sliding, and bumping into furniture. Even professional movers won't be able to prevent 100% of furniture sliding on the flooring. Therefore, the best choice may be to obtain a package of felt furniture pads. Dedicate a couple of days before the move adhering circular safeguards to the feet of all your furniture, and other things challenging and weighty (such as computers, appliances, or weights) that could need to slide on the floor.

Get Flooring 100% Tidy

This is a must. On the day or morning ahead of moving, clean the flooring thoroughly. Dirt on the carpeting might be crushed in on moving day, even beneath rugs and floor mats. Hard grit, rocks, or lost pieces on wood or tile floors may cause scrapes under heavy steps or moved household furniture. In reality, grit is about half the reason floors tend to get damaged on moving day. So clean using whatever supplies you are able to in this order. After that lay out floor coverings.

Wood / Ceramic tile Floor:

· Sweep

· Vacuum

· Mop

· Swiffer/Microfiber

Carpeting:

· Declutter

· Vacuum

· Steam Clean

On Moving Day:

Before the initial box is transported through the house, you need to prepare a couple of things to guard your floor.

Floor Mats at All Entrances/Exits

Position heavy-duty floor mats on both sides of each entrance/exit that will be utilized to carry boxes or furniture. This is particularly important if there is mud, snow, or salted walk ways outside. Request everybody to wipe their feet constantly if they go across a threshold.

Protect Primary Flooring Pathways

Contemplate the location where the most traffic will go back and forth from in your house. Put your sturdiest floor mats along these routes to lessen the effect of heavy steps and set-down household furniture against your flooring. If you're moving without professional movers, take into account methods to move furniture pieces without scooting it along the bare floors, whenever possible.

Employ Hand Trucks and also Dollies

When you get worn out while you are moving household furniture, you put it down more often and it becomes tempting to push it over the floor. Which, needless to say, isn't good for the floor. Purchase hand trucks and/or dollies to help you to roll heavy boxes and furniture to and from the moving truck.

Organize Indoor/Outdoor Groupings

Should you have plenty of people, try arranging a hand-off at the entrance. In this way, outside-shoes do not come on the inside and folks moving around inside do not get outdoor dirt on their footwear. Put simply, pass boxes and furniture pieces just like a bucket-brigade chain.

Through the Day:

Then during moving day, you'll want to keep up with your floor care to make sure that floor surfaces are always protected. Include logistics for clearing small sized off-path areas and last-minute modifications.

Sweep Walkways

Your covered paths are appropriate to keep dirt, mud, and salt away from your floor, but only for so long. Quick sweeps of the walkways out through doors or into dustpans may drastically improve their general performance during the day.

Make use of Backup Floor Coverings

Watch furniture movements and walking paths. Be prepared to wrap a piece of furniture or lay down some backup floor coverings at any moment. Staying adaptable is among the key elements to keeping ones floors thoroughly protected on moving day.

When It Is Over:

Lastly, it is possible to validate your success or take care of the one or two little scuffs by doing a floor wrap-up after things are packed up in the moving truck.

Clean Floor surfaces Yet again

Carry out another full cleaning of the floor surfaces. Get them beautiful and thoroughly clear of debris. In this way, you will rest assured regarding the shape they were left in. Take pics and save them for your records.

Check

Perform a last inspection of the flooring. This is your opportunity to perform touch-ups before the final hand-off.

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Keeping your flooring protected during a move just requires a little preparation and also focus. Never allow home furniture move without felt pads. Try to minimize dirt from outdoors making its way in. It is as basic as that. Remember if you're hiring professional movers in El Paso, they will most likely keep up with the floor protection so it's one less matter for you to worry about. For more practical moving day tips, contact us today or check out more of our blog!