How to Make sure that your valuables are safe during a move
Changing address is not your only move, but also a voyage of the most valuable things in your life. Furniture and boxes are essential, but it is the little high-value items that make you stay up late. The family jewelry that was handed down through generations, the most important financial papers, the collectibles that are hard to come by, they can never be replaced.
We know at Golden Star Packers and Movers that we can only earn trust rather than give it. We are going to keep you in our peace of mind. We have developed this detailed guide over the years of our experience dealing with the most delicate and valuable things so that your treasures are not only transported, but under the careful protection of our guards all the way.
The following are the ways of ensuring that your valuables are safe in your next move.
Step 1: Inventory and Separation -Know Your VIPs.
The initial and the most important one is to find out what really can be considered a "valuable." Keep these items absolutely apart with your general household goods.
Make a Golden List: As you go around your house, make a list of things that fall into the following categories:
Financial Instruments: Money, Coins, Jewelry, Stamps, precious metals.
Sentimental Heirlooms Family photo albums, letters, wedding dresses, children first artwork, inherited antiques.
Important Documents: Wills, birth certificates, property deeds, critical documents: passports, medical records, stock certificates.
High-end electronics: laptops, tablets, professional cameras and external hard drives.
After the identification, such items must be placed in an exclusive place. They simply need another protocol to your regular moving boxes.
Step 2: The Golden rule - Personal Transport is Paramount.
In the case of the products on your Golden List, the safest way of transportation is to carry them personally.
Preparedness Each of us has a treasure chest of our own to prepare:
Select a Non-descriptive Box: Select a hardened non-descript box or a hardened case. Do not use containers that attract attention.
Pack Smartly Inside:
Jewelry should be stored on individual soft cloth pouches or original boxes.
Documents which are important should be locked in a fireproof box or in a sealed waterproof envelope.
Place delicate treasures in an acid-free tissue paper or bubble wrap.
Keep It With You: This Treasure Chest is to be carried in your personal car. You should leave your old home with the last thing and bring it into the new one as the first thing. It, by no means, ever rides on the moving truck.
Step 3: Packing of Non-Transportable Valuables by a professional.
To transport larger items that cannot be carried yourself like a grand piano, valuable painting, large antique vase or delicate sculpture, this is where professional packer come in to the rescue.
Golden Standard Protocol of the Golden Star Packers and Movers:
Custom Crating: We do not employ standard boxes when it comes to high value items. Our wooden crates are custom made to the exact size of your work of art, mirror, or vintage. This gives it a hard shock absorbing shell which shields against hits and pressure.
Special Materials: Museum-grade materials are used: acid-free paper to avoid chemical reactions, inert foam padding, and foam cavities of custom fit that hold your item without touching it.
Detailed Digital Inventory: We record a detailed record of every valuable item, listing them, including pictures of the item, its condition prior to packing. This is a digital record that we have shared with you in order to be transparent.
Step 4: Insurance The Unbreakable Safety Net.
However, the unforeseen should be planned even when the best of planning is done. It is important to know your insurance.
Basic Carrier Liability: It is commonly the cheapest, free. It offers minimum protection with a fractional coverage per pound per item. This is not sufficient enough in regard to valuables.
Full Value Protection: This is the one that we would suggest. With this plan, the mover will be subject to paying the full replacement value of any lost or damaged item. It has a deductible which is guaranteed to keep you covered.
Third-Party Insurance: In cases where the value of the item is very high we can assist you to take out a separate third-party insurance as a rider to have the ultimate peace of mind.
Our Recommendation: Talk to your mover about insurance. We clearly clarify all the coverage options and assist you in getting the plan that suits your investment best at Golden Star Packers and Movers.
Step 5: Communication and Vigilance: How You Can Be a part of the Process.
One of your security layers is your vigilance. Your questions will be welcome in a reputable company.
Make the Mover Ask You: (Especially Golden Star Packers and Movers!):
What is your particular protocol on handling high value items?
Can you please supply me with a written, detailed account of my treasures with pre-move pictures?
How can you tell me in a basic way what the difference between your insurance options is?
Who will be dealing directly with my valuables and how will they be trained?
Should you be given ambiguous or indecisive responses, it is a significant sign of alarm.
The Golden Star Packers and Movers Security Bottom line.
You are opting at us, and you are opting at a multi-layered security strategy:
Trained and Vetted crews: Our relocation crews are highly trained in valuables handling and are also well screened.
GPS-Tracked Vehicles: Our vehicles have real time GPS which means that we can track the position and security of your shipment along the way.
Secure Storage Facilities: In case of necessity your products can be stored in our climate-controlled and high-security warehouse.
White-Glove Service: We handle your goods as we treat them in a way that they are treated, as though they were ours.
Summary: Walk With Confidence, Not Concern.
Your valuables are your past and your efforts. Their protection must be a conscious plan: they need to be identified, segregated, transported personally (when possible) and those that cannot be done so have to be handled by insured, professional packers.
With this guide you turn moving day anxiety into action.
Golden Star Packers and Movers: Your Reliable Company.
We do not relocate material things but preserve heritages. Our special service, Gold Care is created expressly to serve your most important things, and it provides tailor solutions, the finest material and the maximum insurance that can be offered.
Never put your invaluable treasures into hazard. Call Golden Star Packers and Movers today and have a free and no-obligation consultation. A personalized security plan to your relocation, we should speak of now, since your peace of mind is gold.