The moving process
is always a small disaster, and it makes you nervous. In addition, you may encounter some problems. You have to move your huge and bulky pieces of furnishings to your new location. And that is what makes harder the entire process. So, is it crucial to disassemble your furniture?
Disassembling and assembling is a tough job because it requires special attention. Even if your thing is so massive and has solid construction, during the moving process, it becomes fragile. It followed that you should be ready for some difficulties if you are not planning to dismantle your furnishings.
Don’t break it down
Some pieces of furniture are much more challenging to move than others – they can be very heavy, awkwardly shaped, very fragile, or highly valuable even if it’s just an IKEA furniture.
Most of the difficulties usually cause ready-to-assemble furniture with many heavy parts in it.
For example, built-in large wardrobe should be dismantled before moving. It may take a couple of hours or, maybe, more. It depends on the size of the wardrobe and the skills of the man who will disassemble it. If you’re planning to do it for the first time, this process can take all day. In this case, it’s much better to invite professional furniture assemblers and save your time.
Soft furniture also should be disassembled. Let us first consider an upholstered sofa
: this type of furnishing should be also dismantled and transported piece by piece. Generally, they are a seat frame, a seat-back frame, a seat rail, armrests, and pillows.
In truth, though, it has its own specifies. When you do it by yourself, you should have the assembly instructions. If you don’t have it, it’s definitely better to entrust the disassembly and installation of the sofa to specialists. Otherwise, you run the risk of wasting your precious time and losing your furniture items at all. And no one guarantees that you will be able to assemble it without consequences in a new place.
So, what about a cabinet? When disassembling the cabinet, the main task is to ensure fastener integrity, because it remains to be done in a new place. If you don’t have certain skills and experience, you can easily damage it.
Experience has shown: when moving from one location to another, everything can happen.
Do I need professional assistance?
As we have clarified earlier, you won’t be able to disassemble your goods without the right tools and an extra pair of hands. Moreover, it will take plenty of time and energy. Modern furniture can be disassembled without damage only in the presence of professional skills. This is what makes it different from the old furnishings (they are usually very heavy and impossible to dismantle).
Before transporting, we recommend you to disassemble all the furniture, because the assembled things can be easily damaged in a van, even with a special attachment device.
In spite of its apparent simplicity, the assembly and disassembly are often beyond the power of a simple man who is far from the furniture installer’s profession. There's a strong possibility to damage your expensive furniture. However, many accidents can be avoided if they are foreseen in advance.
