What items cannot be moved during professional moving service?

• October 5th, 2024
• Posted in Packing Mistakes

In this blog entry, the professional TriState area residential moving service and commercial moving service team here at Noah’s Ark Moving and Storage will detail the 4 main types of items that cannot be moved during your professional moving service.

Dangerous Items

These include chemicals that can dangerously interact with other substances, like paint thinner and weed killer, lighter fluid, propane cylinders, and gas. Other substances and items that are dangerous to move include matches, paint, paint thinner, oxygen bottles, household cleaners, fireworks, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, spray cans, pool chemicals, nail polish removal, and compressed air tanks. Pretty much anything toxic, anything that can ignite, anything that can combust, and anything that can explode.

Plants

Some states have strict rules about transporting plants over state lines, as insects or mites can potentially migrate to other regions where they can do ecological damage. Unwanted pests housed in plants can also easily spill out into the moving truck, and plants can easily be damaged during transport in a moving truck, as they need water and sunlight. If you cannot move your plants in your car, give them away to friends, family members, or neighbors.

Essential Documents, Valuebles, or Heirlooms

We recommend that you keep priceless and irreplaceable valuables like important documents, photos, jewelry, and heirlooms in a secure container with you in your car, just to stay safe since they are irreplaceable after all.

Perishable Food

Some movers will pack canned food, but it’s not a good idea to pack perishable food on moving vans. We recommend that you get rid of perishables and food items in glass jars in advance of your move. It’s better to not have to worry about mold, cracks, or leaks in your personal vehicle, and to have more room for other items.

Other Important Facts About Moving Items:

• Bring pets with you in your personal car
• Consider state laws about alcohol transport before moving alcoholic beverages
• Order groceries, paper products, cleaning stuff, and household products on the internet to be delivered to your new home with other essential items
• You can place equipment like lawn mowers on moving trucks as long as fuel tanks oil tanks are fully drained in advance
• Never take the risk of transporting hazardous or dangerous items in your car – just repurchase them if possible when moving to your new property