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Can anyone give recommendations on packing large glass and fragile items?
I have 5 glass mirrors and 1 large golf framed picture that are about 3 feet tall in length. I have no idea what I should use to pack them. I also have 1 LCD where I don't have the box it came in when I bought it. I keep the box for my other Tv and computer. I was thinking blankets would do. Any ideas would help.
Check out your local Self-Storage places. They have all kinds of boxes available for mirrors and pictures. Also see if you can find a small, independent TV retailer. You can probably score a box for your LCD from them.
You might also drive around and see if you can find wooden pallets behind stores. Most of the time they don't care if you take them (ask first) and they can be handy for packing large mirrors and pictures.
Blankets would be a good idea. When we moved a lot, we used the backseat of the car for breakables, and those type of items you mentioned would get a blanket on the floor and a blanket between each item as well, carefully carried one by one!
DubbleT....I agree with pallets, also at warehouses, I know we always have pallets behind the building in the dumpster, or laying beside it. *Free Score*
Buy boxes from a storage place for those items. Wrap them in blankets or towels, and then bubble wrap, before you package them. The fabric will keep the screens from scratching on the t.v.s
UHaul sells boxes for pictures and for LCD TV's. They aren't cheap, but they do have the boxes, and you can wrap the items in beach towels or blankets and they'll still fit in the boxes.
Buy boxes from a storage place for those items. Wrap them in blankets or towels, and then bubble wrap, before you package them. The fabric will keep the screens from scratching on the t.v.s
yep, that's what we did to wrap our large projection tv when we came from Wi to SC (now i dont know why we even moved that beast lol), as well as some art. Soft blankets wrapped and taped then a good layer of bubble wrap. We even used our mattresses to surround the tv in the truck. Smaller screens, pix, and monitors we wrapped and placed in boxes for transport
Go to ULine and order a standard hard art work/glass frame container with enough slots for each individual interior carton in its own rack. You will also order the artwork or glass frame cartons for the size and depth of each piece. While at it, order some extra soft or convoluted foam. Pack each piece in their own carton and place that carton in its own rack inside the container and secure the racks against movement as you load them. If they are out of the rack packs, just use the wooden crate and some 1" X 1" wood slats to make the racks as you load. You can fill the excess space with left over foam or any other soft material such as a blanket or towels. MAKE SURE you labelt he correct UP end as the rack systems will protect glass and artwork so long as it remains in the upright position.
If this is to complicated or ecxpensive, just improvise with whatever is abvailable but keep the key element of these sytems in mind.
1. All items are indiviudally and properly packaged.
2. All the individual packages are next packed together to keep the fragiles in one place minimizing the chances of many individual items having to be cared for.
3. The outer case is hard and designed to protect the interior packages by adding a layer of proetection againt the dreaded sharp corner bump in to the main field of the fragile package.
4. easier to have several people move one heavy fragile container than many people moving many individual lighter containers.
5. last and not least, when you get where your going, one container with these items can be better protected from accidental damages than several all over the place.
It's just one of a series of DIY How to Pack video's presented by Suddath, a United Van Lines agent based in Florida posted on YouTube at suddathcompany - YouTube
Honestly, we just wrap all the glass in either bubble wrap or blankets, or the matress foam (think eggshell bed cover).
As far as the flat screen goes, a think layer of blanket or sheet, then place it between two matresses.
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