I move more frequently, and I've moved three times in the last five years. Every time is a big move, furniture and appliances are just as many. With experience, you can find out the way. My last move cost me only a few hundred dollars – it cost more than two thousand to move with my friends at the same time (in fact, I spent so much the first time I moved).
Today is just free, just sum up your own experience, do a move to save money strategy. Hope it helps my friends who haven't started moving yet.
The cost of moving is mainly concentrated in the following four aspects, which I will say separately in the order in which they occur.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="4" > packaged</h1>
What you need to do before moving is to pack. It's a physical job, but it's also a very expensive job. I generally pack and use three tools:
At the top of the list are trolley cases or travel bags, which are the strongest, and I put all kinds of fine softness into it. When moving, they even choose to carry it themselves, not only the things inside are valuable, but even the tools themselves are worth a lot. Of course, these things are not bought specifically for moving, so it is not money.
The biggest expense is the carton, I had no experience when I first moved, I went online to buy a special carton. It costs about a dozen dollars a piece, and it takes thirty to fifty to move a house. Later, I learned to be smart, and I went to the supermarket downstairs to ask the boss for it. The boss with a good relationship does not want money, and the relationship generally gives him ten yuan and can buy a dozen.
Things that are not afraid of squeezing (such as clothes, bedding) can be packed in woven bags. Woven bags do not use old, too dirty. This thing is not expensive, go online to buy, about a dollar a piece. A woven bag can hold a lot of things, and it is enough to move twenty or thirty at a time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="9" > moved</h1>
The most tiring stage of moving is moving. I usually go to a professional moving company to help, and the cost will be mentioned in the next section.
And will find three or four friends to come, one to be responsible for coordination on the day of the move: at least to leave a person in the old house, a person in the new house, and if necessary, a person to follow the car. The second is to help pack and unpacking, of course, this work is very troublesome, often need to do several days. If your friend doesn't have time, he can do it alone for a few more days.
I thought I had done a better job than my friend: instead of looking for someone from a moving company to help, he went to the labor market and found three laborers. A laborer costs three hundred yuan a day, and three people work a day is nearly a thousand yuan.
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There are two options for shipping, one is to find a moving company like me. The moving company I was looking for would provide a 4.2-meter-long van with two people. The person is responsible for moving (moving from the designated place to the car, and then from the car to another designated location), and the car is responsible for transporting. It costs 350 yuan to carry a car, and my family has more things and transports two trucks.
This fee is the most basic cost, and there will actually be many additions. For example, the drum washing machine (the wave wheel is fine), one should add 50 yuan; the safe, one should add 50 yuan. Furniture needs to be disassembled (such as some beds and sofas, which need to be dismantled and transported, and then installed on the spot), a set should be added 50 yuan. For houses without elevators, a floor should be added to 20 yuan. Transport more than 5 kilometers, each kilometer to add 5 yuan, I forgot.
My friend's transportation was found through a ride-hailing app, and the cost of transportation was slightly higher than the price of a taxi. It seems that the transportation cost is low, but the labor cost of handling is high. Overall, the two links of handling alone cost me hundreds of yuan more.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" data-track="17" > air conditioners</h1>
The cost of air conditioning removal is really too high, so I listed it specifically.
The master who moved me told me that I should do this budget: 500 yuan for a hang-up machine, 1,000 yuan for a cabinet machine - of course, this one often has a relatively large margin.
Air conditioning removal machine do not only look at the quotation, in the actual operation process, there may also be pipe change fees, fluorine fees, aerial work fees and so on. In this regard, the cost of home appliance maintenance will even be higher than that of brand after-sales. Although the quotation of the brand after-sales transfer machine is high, the operation process is relatively clean and there are fewer additions.
The dismantled air conditioning transportation is generally the responsibility of the workers who move the machine. Of course, it also depends on how many air conditioners there are – these workers usually drive a 2.2-meter pickup truck, or van. If the car can be loaded, they will transport it for free. If the car can't be loaded, you can only call the car yourself.