Our team at Office Movers Toronto has prepared some helpful tips to reduce damage to your office furniture during your Toronto office relocation.
Moving Your Office Furniture with Minimal Damage
Before moving your office furniture, we recommend that you ensure that your new Toronto office location can accommodate the full complement of office furniture from your existing office. This is as simple as comparing the floor and room sizes of each. Pre-measurements are necessary whether office furniture is moved from one part of an office facility to another, or to a new Toronto office building.
Another tip for moving office furniture is to create a floor plan that maintains a similar symmetry and ergonomic design to facilitate best use of office floor and space.
Protecting Your Office Furniture from Damage
Choose a reliable Toronto moving company for short or long distance office moving. A reputable Toronto office moving company will provide maximum protection from most types of damage to your office furniture.
For small businesses that plan to complete their office relocation themselves to save money, there are several items needed to move office furniture short distances in an office. These include:
- Padded “blankets”
- Hand trucks and hydraulic trucks
- Industrial dollies
- Quilted furniture protectors
- Cargo straps
- Carpet and floor protectors
- Moving pads
Organize Moving Your Office Furniture
To facilitate moving your office furniture, it is important that the contents of all files, storage cabinets and desks be removed, properly boxed and labeled. Use color coded, removable labels that match those attached to your office equipment and also the floor plan. This will save you a lot of work when replacing the contents.
Keep color coded lists of these items for movers, if applicable, employees and management so that everyone can easily locate and identify their office furniture. For your Toronto office movers, a color coded list helps to place office furniture in the correct locations on the floor plan.
More Tips for Moving Your Office Furniture
Be sure to provide your Toronto office movers with a clear understanding for workplace safety regulations with regard to distance between desks, cubicle and aisles between work areas. That will avoid having to move office furniture after the movers complete their work.
Most experienced your Toronto office movers are fully aware of such issues. But if this is a DIY project, it may be important to check with the local municipality on workplace safety regulations. These regulations also include the distance between items stored on top of credenzas and bookcases. The standard rule is to allow at least 12 inches between ceiling and items stored on the tallest office equipment.
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