If you've just bought a new home and are planning to move in the near future, you might be wondering how you are going to go about it. You can either pay some one to do the hard work for you or consider doing it yourself. Moving house is now much easier, especially with all the great tools you have to help lighten the load; also doing it yourself will save you money, which you can use on your family in the future. So what do you need to get started, you'll want to buy packing materials, boxes, sealing tape and markers, as well as spending a little on the transportation, but the most important item to buy is a furniture dolly.
This great time saving contraption can be rented or bought from your local home depot. They are cheap and simple devices that will substantially minimize your moving time. The great thing about furniture dollies is that they allow two people to easily move a large item of furniture like a sofa or master bed with very little effort needed.
Soft Wheel Casters
You more than likely haven't heard of a furniture dolly before, they are used by all the professional moving companies and come in a range of different forms. The most common dolly type is made from a flat rectangular piece of wood board or a plastic/metal frame, the surface of the board is usually covered in a soft carpet material to reduce the risk of your furniture getting scratched during the moving process. On the bottom side of the board or frame there will be 3 or 4 swivel coaster wheels attached for easy maneuverability.
If you stop into your local home depot store you will find a variety of these furniture dolly trolleys for sale, each with its own special feature to make moving easier for you. To help give you an idea of what to expect in terms of choices, here are 3 dollies to get you started:
(1) Adjustable twin skate dolly - Not all pieces of furniture are perfectly cubical, so someone came up with this ingenious design. It is made up of 2 smaller wooden square boards, each with 4 coaster wheels attached to the bottom. These are both fixed to two ends of a central bar and can be moved closer or further apart from each other along the length of the bar. What this means is that you can easily adjust the width of the two platforms to fit oddly shaped items making this a very flexible furniture dolly.
(2) Aluminum dollies - Most of the older forms of furniture dolly were made from either hard wood or steel, these are both quite heavy materials that adds weight to the moving process and makes them harder to use. After people started complaining of dollies being too heavy someone came up with the idea of using aluminum, which is both very strong and extra lightweight, now pushing your furniture around is a breeze. The only downside is the 0 a piece price tag.
(3) 3-wheeled steel dolly corners - This small light weight furniture dolly was specifically designed to move very large square objects with corners, such as large dinning tables, beds or refrigerators. They are simply triangular shaped metal dollies with 3 coaster wheels in each corner, there is no need to lift the entire piece of furniture, just lift each individual corner separately. The major benefit to this furniture dolly is that it is cheap, so you can buy several in one go.
