Shifting to a high-rise apartment comes with incredible views of the city, remarkable amenities, and easy access to urban life. Still, relocating to a high-rise comes with its own challenges. While navigation and scheduling seem easy, tight elevator time slots, spiral hallways, and precise building regulations require extensive planning. This article will provide you with the best tips for stress-free moving at high rise apartments, assisting in seamless transfer of belongings. Apex Moving System is at your service regardless of whether you are moving across the country or just a few blocks down the street.
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Understand Your Building's Policies and Requirements
Check with building management before spending funds on a moving truck or filling boxes with your belongings. Make use of high-rise buildings as their management tend to have stick policies regarding moving. Not following them may end in you getting complications as you move. Policies include everything from reimbursement policies, timing policies, as well as warranty policies. Failing to follow this step could result in denial or access to your destination.
Be certain to request the building management for a moving-in folder or checklist. These documents usually specify what is permitted and what is forbidden, when the service elevators can be used, and if a Certificate of Insurance (COI) is required. Apex Moving System knows how to deal with such stipulations and can take care of all the documentation and communication with your building’s management to give you compliance and peace of mind.
Key Considerations Include:
- Policies on Making Reservations for Elevators: A service elevator is usually only available to high-rise buildings that operates on reservation basis. These elevators are in addition to passenger elevators and are suited for larger items. Be ready for short time windows, during weekends and peak moving season. Apex Moving System is able to work with timing so that these delays can be circumvented and your building is serviced on schedule.
- Certificate of Insurance (COI): A COI is a protective document for the building from damage that can happen while moving. Most buildings will have restrictions on movers if they don’t possess this document. Make sure your moving company arranges this ahead of time. Avoid A Moving System has a complete insurance and can provide the paperwork within the timeframe to keep the process moving smoothly.High-rise apartments typically have less space and tighter corners, so your furniture may not fit as it did in your prior house. Measure the doorways, hallways, elevators, and eve
Measure Everything and Plan the Layout in Advance
High-rise apartments often have limited square footage and tighter corners, which means your furniture might not fit the same way it did in your previous home. Take the time to measure doorways, hallways, elevators, and your actual living space. This will save you from the frustration of finding out that your couch won’t make it through the front door.
Planning the layout ahead of time is just as important. By pre-deciding where each item will go, you can make unpacking far easier and quicker. You might even find that some of your current furniture won’t serve your new space well, and you can make the decision to sell, donate, or store it before moving day. Apex Moving System offers professional packing and furniture disassembly services, making it easier to adapt to the space constraints of high-rise living.
Important Tips for Planning Layout and Space:
- Create a Scaled Floor Plan: Use software or even graph paper to design your new apartment layout. This helps you visualize the space and avoid bringing unnecessary furniture.
- Double Check Building Access Points: Don’t just measure your new apartment; measure stairwells, elevator openings, and hallway turns too. High-rise buildings are notorious for tight corners that can make large furniture difficult to maneuver.
Choose the Right Moving Day and Time
If you are looking to move into a high-rise apartment, time your move for mid-week during the middle of the month. The first or last days of the month along with weekends tend to be the busiest which forces a lot of congestion in the building. Mid-week, mid-month offers the least congestion and greater flexibility with building traffic and elevator reservations.
Do remember that most high-rise buildings will have restrictions on moving hours to limit the disturbance to other tenants. Generally moves can only take place during business hours, which is 9 AM to 5 PM, thus why many companies will not move during this time. If your moving company does not consider this when preparing their schedule, delays will set you back financially. At Apex Moving System we understand these limitations and will work within the time constraints of your building set by the moving hours.
Recommended Scheduling Strategies:
- Avoid Peak Moving Times: To avoid heavy traffic with movers and elevators, schedule the move for mid-week, middle of month.
- Schedule Moves in Advance: Start coordinating at least 2-4 weeks in advance, since high-rise buildings require more coordination. Apex Moving System has no limitations on scheduling and offers clear pricing for all high-rise moves.
Use Specialized Packing and Moving Equipment
The basic tools do not suffice when it comes to high-rise relocations. As a minimum, dollies, floor protectors, padded blankets, and shrink wrap need to be employed to protect the unit and other belongings. Any damage caused to the walls, floors, or the inside of elevators may lead to significant fines as well as the loss of the security deposit.
That’s why hiring expert movers is always the best decision. At Apex Moving System, we guarantee industry standards when it comes to equipment and safety measures. Our teams are thorough. They use the appropriate lifting moves, protective gear for your belongings and the building. Also, we provide full-service packing so residents can quickly familiarize themselves with their new home without being bogged down by numerous tape and box-like structures.
Packing for High-Rise Moves:
- Covers for floors and wall mounted furniture: These assure no scrapes or marks appear due to confined spaces such as elevators and hallways.
- Strong and room designated transparent boxes: These assist in both orderly and efficient unloading and unpacking of belongings.
Pro Tips for a Smooth High-Rise Move
Apex Moving System has some additional tips after aiding hundreds of clients with relocating to high-rises. Preparation and communication are the two important aspects to focus on, as high rise moves are intricate in nature. You need to both coordinate everything and inform your building in advance.
Pro Tip # 1: To increase efficiency when it comes to unloading boxes, each container should be marked with the name of the room it belongs to and its level of importance.
Pro Tip # 2: You won’t be able to get everything out, so keep a moving day essentials bag with keys, important documents, medications, snacks, as well as a phone charger so you can regain power to your devices.
Final Pro Moving Advice:
- Wrap Up the Preparation Step Asap: The more time you leave yourself to work with, the better, and make sure to inform everyone along the way.
- Like we mentioned earlier, let the professionals take care of the rest so you can enjoy the additional free time. DIY taking the lead when it comes to high-rise lifts is not a choice.
- Trust us; logistically problematic high-rise lifts are bound to come from the seemingly simple beautifully polished box.
