Safe, Sound, and Stored: Vancouver Moving Made Easy

Most people envision moving as bringing a collection of possessions from one location to another over the course. Simple. Straightforward. But in practice, many moves are rarely this neat and tidy and, as Two Small Men mover Sajan Preet discovered, sometimes a move consists of multiple steps. In one Lower Mainland case, one of those steps involved making a stop in order to facilitate a temporary storage solution for a customer moving in Langley who hadn't quite worked out the final destination yet.

Although relatively close to Vancouver, traffic can make the trip considerably longer, which is why it was convenient that Sajan found himself already in the area.

“With traffic, it’s an hour away, I guess,” he says.

This move that he was called to involved relocating the contents of a three-bedroom house, which affected how Sajan approached the move. Because items might be stored for months at a time, everything needs to be packed with extra caution and care. In this case, everything was headed to a storage facility and that meant planning in regards to arrangement of the items and accessibility for the client.

“With the storage move, like we have to figure, we have to know how big of a storage unit everything can fit in,” he explains.

Basically, if the storage unit is too small, it won't hold everything. If the unit is too big, the customer is paying for more than what he needs. It's about finding a balance.

In this case, the client was especially concerned with keeping all pieces of furniture protected. And with this came some pretty specific instructions.

“Yeah, like for some of these furniture things, he wants us to throw pads under and then we put it in the storage so that they don’t get damaged.”

The longer items are stored, the more chance there is for something to happen. Dust can collect. Heavy items may shift and other problems may arise from the pressure of everything stacked up together.

Sajan understands the apprehension of customers.

“Yeah, so that’s because it’s taking a longer time,” he says, elaborating on the reason extra padding and overall caution was needed.

The exact reason for this storage request is one that Sajan sees a lot working on moves in Vancouver. Construction timelines simply don't always line up with moving timelines.

“Yeah, because he sold his place here, and he hasn’t gotten another place to live there,” Sajan explains.

In moving markets as busy as Vancouver and Langley, people will often be willing to sell their home before they've necessarily found a new one to go to. This is when storage is absolutely necessary. At the very least, it offers a measure of flexibility during times of high stress for homeowners.

“So he might wait for some time, and once he gets like a nice day, he will go there from the storage unit.”

It's always crucial to keep the future move in mind. Everything needs to be easily accessible for the owner of the items. What makes Sajan a great mover is his ability to keep all aspects of the moving timeline in mind, even those parts towards the end that he may not be directly involved with. It comes down to great customer service and adhering to the values of Two Small Men.

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