Tips To Keep Both Homes Safe During A Move

In everyday life, people take precautions for safety and security, from password protection on phones to wearing seatbelts in vehicles. Moving day should be no different. To protect against theft and damage as you relocate your belongings, use these tips from UF Mover Guys!

Keep Both Homes Safe During a Move in Gainesville, FL

How To Avoid Moving-Related Damage

To protect your items during transport, you can pack and load them carefully. But to avoid damage to your new home, follow these precautions while unloading boxes.

Don’t Carry Heavy, Bulky Items Alone

It’s not only bad for your back to lift a heavy box by yourself. Should you lose your grip, the box could easily dent a wall or crack a tile floor. To safely unload bulky items, team up with a friend or loved one to distribute the weight, or call our movers in Gainesville, FL

Measure Furniture Beforehand

Not all doorways are the same size. A bookshelf that you carried with no problems out of your old home could just as easily get hung up on the door frame at the new house. Therefore a good adage to use when moving is, “measure twice, carry once.” After all, it takes less effort and money to disassemble furniture, thus ensuring it fits, than to repair damage to a home.

Ways To Prevent Theft

Even though Gainesville is among Florida’s safest cities in most categories of crime, thefts still occur. To avoid having your items being taken on moving day, use these security tips.

Keep Items Organized & Contained

A sprawl of boxes and items left unattended is like an open invitation to would-be thieves, who could be interested in anything from clothes to electronics. But organizing your items helps keep them safe from creeping burglars; it’s easier to keep track of boxes stacked together. For extra security, you can unload the truck one item at a time, locking the door between trips.

Hire Trusted, Reputable Movers

How can you be sure the movers won’t drive off into the sunset with your possessions? The answer is to choose a trusted company with a reputation for competence and honesty. When you hire professionals to handle the move, you can relax and focus on other aspects of life.

UF Mover Guys is a team of movers Gainesville residents have trusted for more than 10 years. Contact us for an estimate!

UF Mover Guys Earns 2016 Angie’s List Super Service Award

Award reflects company’s consistently high level of customer service

UF Mover Guys has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award, reflecting an exemplary year of customer service to members of the local services marketplace and consumer review site in 2016. This is the third consecutive year the Gainesville moving company has earned the prestigious achievement.

This achievement is particularly significant as Angie’s List experienced unprecedented member growth in 2016. More than 1.6 million consumers, many of whom were eager to quickly hire highly qualified service pros, joined Angie’s List after the company added a new, free membership tier.

“Companies that can meet higher demands without missing a beat in their exemplary performance standards truly do stand apart from their peers,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “Only a fraction of the moving companies in Florida were able to do it.”

Angie’s List Super Service Award 2016 winners have met strict eligibility requirements, which include an “A” rating in overall grade, recent grade, and review period grade. The SSA winners must also be in good standing with Angie’s List, pass a background check and abide by Angie’s List operational guidelines.

Service company ratings are updated daily on Angie’s List as new, verified consumer reviews are submitted. Companies are graded on an A through F scale in areas ranging from price to professionalism to punctuality.

For more than 21 years, Angie’s List restricted access to its verified reviews to consumers who paid membership fees. When the company removed that barrier, some companies worried that the new, non-paying members would not be as engaged as members of the past. Experience has shown, however, that these newly added members are just as engaged — across all age groups — as prior members. Also, because the company continues to adhere to its review verification process, there has been no degradation of review quality.

“The biggest change at Angie’s List is that we are connecting even more consumers to high quality service professionals,” Hicks said. “And that’s good for everyone.”

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Angie’s List helps facilitate happy transactions between more than 4.5 million consumers nationwide and its collection of highly rated service providers in more than 720 categories of service, ranging from home improvement to health care. Built on a foundation of more than 10 million verified reviews of local service, Angie’s List connects consumers directly to its online marketplace of services from member-reviewed providers, and offers unique tools and support designed to improve the local service experience for both consumers and service professionals.