By Steven Hay
Storage King Castle Hill
How many boxes do Ineed?
Everyone knows that you shouldn’t pack heavy items into bigboxes. Plates, books and DVDs can become very heavy when stacked in largequantities. “How many small boxes do I need?” I hear you ask. We here is a handyguide when it comes to packing.
For each full dinner service setting you will need 5 xcrystal cartons, 2.5kg of butchers paper, 20mtr of bubble wrap and tape. It isimportant to remember that is you are packing silverware, china or crystal thatyou will need to pick up a roll of tissue paper as well.
For each standard book shelf you will need 5 x book boxesand tape
This bring us to large boxes and what they are good for.
Each member of the house hold will generally need 3 teachest cartons, 1 x crystal box and tape. If the member is a teenager they willgenerally need and extra tea chest and crystal carton. Preteens will generallyneed and extra 2 tea chest to allow for toys.
Tea chests a suggested in lieu of storage bags if you arelooking at storing you items to conserve space. Boxes will stack up, bags willnot.
Port – a – Robe Boxes are great for not only moving butstorage as well. Using the Port – a – Robe box instead of storage bags willmean packing and unpacking is a breeze as items will not need to be ironedagain after unpacking. Your average built in wardrobe will use up 2 Port – a -Robe boxes.
A single 75mtr roll of tape will get you through 15 boxes.This allows for taping the sides of the tops and bottoms of you boxes
Every move can generally be taken care of with the abovementioned boxes. However it is not uncommon to have items not mentioned above.Remember to ask a Storage King staff member about our full range of boxes thatwe have available. We stock everything from wine boxes to TV boxes. We evenhave boxes for packing furniture that has been dismantled.
