How We Keep Your Home Organized While Packing?
Moving or packing up a house is never a fun thing to do. Well at least on the bright side of things you get a chance to start fresh and reorganize your space into what you want and not what it might have become. But what if you already have a well decorated or well organized house? Moving is just a hassle at that point. You spend months organizing and decorating the way you want and then you suddenly have to move or worse, you have a flood or fire and have to remodel your home.
Staying organized while you pack up your home for storage or a move is the key to making the move-in process as seamless as possible.
As a content restoration company who specializes in packing and moving contents out of a home we have a proven system for making sure we take the best care of the items in your home, but also putting them back where they came from.
Encircle Home Inventory App
Packing Each Room
We first walk the house, add each room to our mobile inventory app. This allows us to document what boxes and items came out of what room. This also allows us to take overview photos of each room and how it was set up before the loss. Once the rebuild and job is complete it allows us to pack everything seamlessly back into each room and unpack and set it up exactly how it was, just like it never happened.
Inside each room in our app we can take individual pictures of what’s inside each box, give it a description, box, size, and box number. Without opening each box we know where to find items you might need at a later date. In coordination with the app, we label each box with the room and box number, and provide a PDF document of all the photos as well.
Sometimes a box has special care instructions or it’s an item with a very particular drawer and cabinet layout. We can leave text and photo notes attached to each item of how each shelf or drawer was arranged.
Searching for Items Made Easier
Once everything is documented and labeled with descriptions we can easily use the built in search tool to find an item. For example: if you wanted your coffee maker for a family event, we might search “coffee maker” and it would tell us that it is packed in Kitchen Box 2 and that it is a small box. Now once it’s time to find it we don’t have to spend hours going through every kitchen box, we just look for box 2 and we’re done.
Having everything documented can really make the move-in process faster. We bring in the furniture, reassemble if necessary, and then unpack the boxes into each room using our photos as a quide. Books back on the bookshelves and plates back in the cabinets. If there is anything you don’t want back you can look through the photos and discard the boxes you don’t want and take them already packed to a donation drop off.
Using an home inventory app is a game changer for both a restoration company and the homeowner. Everything we take we document and you as the homeowner get to see everything at the end or even after each day.
If you have a fire or a flood and everything has to be moved make sure you or your restoration company documents how things looked before and what’s in each box before you move anything. It will save you time in the end and during the mitigation process when it comes to needing things mid process or even redecorated after.
