By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group
Here is how to address a stormy moving day in Tulsa and Oklahoma City like a master...
When You Notice the Rain:
Reserve Cleaning Products & Bathroom towels
The first thing you should do is ensure that your cleaning supplies and towels don't go into the moving van prematurely. Even though your professional movers will set down floor protection, you will likely want to mop when the move is finished and maybe throughout the day should there be sufficient mud or perhaps tracked-in messes to address. Therefore, have your mop and pail prepared to go and in a position to throw last inside the truck.
Towels usually are similarly useful for different benefits. Towels are able to dry off lightly wet things once they enter into the moving truck, wrap things to weather quick rain exposure, and also clean up floor messes should they come about. So, have a handful of bath towels handy and do not be reluctant about quick-wash or quick-drying them through the day. Think about placing down towels preemptively through high-traffic pathways.
Back the Moving truck Right Up to Your Door
Subsequently, do everything you're able to to reduce the amount of time your stuff will be carried beneath the open stormy sky. Covered porches are great for prolonging your rain-protected walk if you have one. Regardless, you'll want to park the truck up as near to your house as is possible, considering the ramp length if needed. This tends to decrease the number of raindrops that can fall down on your things and moving group through the day.
Everybody Don Non-Slip Footwear
Finally, request your entire household and move-assisting friends to put on real shoes or boots. Sneakers having rubber soles would be best, and slick sandals could be the worst. Seriously, no one needs to be wearing sandals whilst moving in any case but additionally watch out for slick urban sneaks such as Converse which can turn out to be hazardously slippery in the precipitation. You may also like to give out sizeable plastic ponchos for the outdoor folks.
To Protect Your Stuff:
Covered Porches and Make-Shift Tarp Roofs
Make an effort to generate the maximum amount of cover for your outdoors walking route as is possible. Use covered porches when you can and check out the spot for possible ingenious use of tarps. You might be in a position to string a tarp from the top of the truck on the edge of your porch, but then again maybe not. Don't go overboard but try to reduce the rain-exposed space from the home and also the moving van.
Cover Home furniture & Boxes for Rainfall Exposure
Next, think about the way in which you can transfer home furnishings as well as boxes from your door into the moving truck without getting them saturated. Tarps are great for this, too, nevertheless you can also get imaginative and make use of items you have already got. Good sized garbage bags, as an example, will be able to wrap boxes or perhaps be put over furniture as you go along although have a higher chance of catching air and flying away than the usual heavy tarp.
Even blankets and towels can shield your items from a few feet of light drizzle when you move swiftly.
Plastic Crates back and forth to the Moving van
Give some thought to obtaining several large plastic bins from the nearby home improvement store. They are quite effective for transporting smaller belongings or packing containers and can be used repeatedly. Use a shut plastic crate like a rain shield, placing items inside, and then emptying the crate inside the truck and returning for another covered load. This technique may take a bit more time but will keep your items dry.
Towel Everything Off inside the Moving van
And once items do make it into the moving van, have somebody inside with a stack of towels ready to dry them off. A simple towel-off can make a huge difference for lightly damp as well as plastic-protected belongings and will additionally lessen the wetness inside the moving van during the move.
Keep towels inside likewise to be able to towel off tarps, cartons, and plastic wrap that has executed their task however got moist along the way.
To Protect Your Floors:
Floor Mats for Foot Wiping
If there is mud on the transport path, set down heavy-duty floor mats / welcome mats at any door being used. Encourage foot wiping for everybody and be prepared to shake out the rugs to use again halfway through the move. Put down towels to counteract puddles.
Bucket Brigade Through the Entrance
One superb way to keep your flooring clean during a rainy or muddy move will be to operate in a bucket-brigade fashion. Have one crew of folks inside with clean shoes picking up cartons and home furnishings to get them to the front entrance door, and another group with dirty footwear who take belongings from there to the moving van. Use your tiled front entrance or even covered porch as the hand-off space.
Wipe Puddles & Mud Slicks Promptly
Finally, keep those bath towels and mop-bucket on hand to instantly clean up any messes that make it in the house. Mud may be put right back outside or mopped up and sluiced down the drain and puddles might be soaked up with towels. If your towels get too drenched along the way, throw them in the dryer (if it's not already loaded on the moving truck) or look for places to hang them in rotation.
If all of this organizing sounds a bit overwhelming, bear in mind, if hiring professional movers in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, they are going to take the stress out of a rainy moving day by figuring out the specifics of everything for you to be able to minimize the exposure to your belongings.
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