How to Move Heavy Boxes

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Home improvement expert Danny Lipford shows you how to turn a piece of plastic with a handle into a DIY device to move heavy boxes in your home.

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How to Move Heavy Boxes Danny Lipford: Moving as one choired no one looks forward too. But we all encounter it sooner or later. Its particularly hard when you have heavy objects to move around. Joe: Well the movers will bring the boxes in for the house which usually your responsibility to get the box into the individual rooms. Now in case like this, we have this heavy box that need to move rather than to try to carry it. I’m going to use a piece of plastic to drag it into the room. Now in this case I’m moving 6 mill which is a pretty thick piece of plastic and a 1 x 2 then we uses as a handle. So I just set the box on the plastic then I role it around the 1 x 2 just once or twice just to create a handle, now lets you just drag it. Danny Lipford: I guess that’ll keep the plastic from tearing as well I want it. Joe: In that way, you can use one hand. If you can see even in a heavy box like this easily glides across the floor. Danny Lipford: Now what about a situation where you have liked a hard wood flood and maybe a vinyl floor? Joe: In that case I’d probably use an old blanket or a moving pad works really well which is thick and quilted and allows you to not only glide across the floor but up over thresholds in the doorways. Danny Lipford: Now if you have a large piece of furniture that has legs on it, it’s a lot easier to move it if you’ll lay it down on its side before you start moving it along.
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