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1. Survey the location of the apartment street
For transporting bulky and valuable objects such as high-class sofas in the living room to the apartment, observing the location of the transportation space is indispensable.
The larger the sofa, the more difficult it is to move its weight and bulkiness. To reduce the load on the sofa, you should remove the mattress and pillows from the chair.
If the chair has removable legs, you should remove and reinstall it when you move into a new home. This helps you move through narrow corners or stairs more easily. If you do not want to scratch the leather or damage anything, you should use cellophane to cover it to ensure absolute safety during transportation.
Should survey the path so that it is suitable to help transport the sofa more conveniently. And don’t forget to protect the sofa; prepare packing materials such as tape, fabric, newspaper, scissors, and shrink film are tools to support the packing and transportation of apartment sofas.
2. Measure sofa dimensions and upholster them
- Just remove the parts, and check the basic cleaning of the sofa surface, especially with expensive leather sofas that need to be cleaned thoroughly.
- Then use newspaper or mouse, cloth, wrap around the rough part, especially the corners of the sofa
- Use shrink wrap to cover the entire outside of the sofa and the outside corners of the sofa
- Use adhesive tape to glue the entire sofa in the shape of an H. If you are more careful, don’t forget to paste the words “Please be gentle” so that the carrier will be more careful.
If we move the sofa in long distances, we can use the large cartons or general wooden pallets to use large tonnage to pack the sofa set that needs to be moved. The use of the above way helps the sofa avoid strong impacts, ensuring safety when moving. However, this packaging is quite time-consuming and costly.
3. Means of transporting sofas
a. Choose a means of moving the sofa
- After carefully wrapping, you need to find out about the road to move the sofa.
- There are quite a few means of transport for sofas from the showroom store to the customer’s apartment. However, the most popular and recommended means of transport are trucks and pickup trucks.
- Moving sofa as well as not complying with traffic safety laws. The sofa transporting truck must ensure the appropriate sofa storage space and avoid the sofa exceeding the trunk size, on the trunk can be braced to help fix the sofa. This will not ensure safety on the journey.
b. Put the sofa on the truck
- Bulky furniture such as sofas should be loaded on the truck first to take advantage of other items to save space and help the vehicle be more balanced when moving.
- However, you should avoid placing too heavy furniture on the sofa to avoid damage to the sofa. Also, be careful not to place sharp objects near the sofa or leave the chair in the sun to avoid damage to the leather sofa.
- Need 2-3 healthy people to take care of carrying and coordinate well during transportation. Besides, it takes one more person to show how to put the sofa on the trunk safely. However, if there is forklift equipment or a dedicated transport line for the car, it would be great.
4. Handling transportation to the customer’s apartment
- You have to see if the topography of your office is on a low or a high floor; go through any bends when transferring sofas; It is necessary to remove obstacles on the way to ensure no entanglement.
- The most important factor when moving a sofa is the person carrying it.
- At least four healthy people must carry out and coordinate well during the transportation. Preference will be given to those with shipping experience.
a. How to move the sofa to the elevator
If the customer’s apartment is on a high floor, the most effective way to put the sofa up there is to move the sofa by elevator. Currently, most apartments have a dedicated elevator design. Large enough load to transport furniture easily to the apartment safely.
b. How to move a sofa upstairs
If the customer’s apartment is in a low-rise location or there is no elevator, we should choose the option of moving the sofa by the stairs.
After surveying the sofa moving route, we need a group of 2-4 people carrying the sofa and a guide to properly navigate and clear the obstacles in front of us or take turns carrying the sofa.
In addition, using wheels to move stairs is a smart and popular choice today to help transporters save energy and manpower.
5. Moving and assembling luxury sofas into the apartment
Moving sofa
- The length of the sofa is a great hindrance to transportation. If the sofa’s width is larger than the width of the door, you must turn its back to the ceiling to choose which direction is most convenient to take out of the house. Besides, you should also pay close attention to not only the size of the sofa but also the extra space for the carrier.
- If it is too narrow, there is not enough room to squeeze in; you can rotate or tilt the chair.
Assembling sofa
- Set the sofa position at the customer’s request or advise the customer to place the sofa in a good living room location with the room space, feng shui with the customer.
- Remove the sofa upholstery accessories, assemble the sofa, recheck the sofa and hand it over to the customer. Do not forget to advise customers on properly maintaining and using sofas.
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