Prepare Furniture for Moving

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Moving heavy furniture using Furniture Sliders. Moving Furniture Hacks. How to move heavy furniture.

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The general method for using the sliders is to lift the furniture just high enough to slide a pad underneath each foot. The presenter strongly advises against attempting to move heavy furniture by dragging it without sliders, as this could easily break the furniture's feet or damage the flooring, whether it's carpet, vinyl, or tile. He also advises, especially when working in a client's home, to remove all decorative items or valuables from the furniture before moving it to prevent any accidental breakage.

Goal: Understand the correct and safe way to prepare furniture and the hazards of improper movement.

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Heavy furniture — The item to be moved

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just take one of one of these little sliders and you're going to lift the furniture up just high enough to slide it under the feet and that way it'll move real easily. If you try to attempt to move a heavy furniture, piece of furniture like this, you could actually break one of the feet. So, it's important to use sliders and use some type of method that you're actually not dragging it along the floor, dragging it on the carpet. this piece of furniture. There's no way I can move this piece of furniture and slide it on here without damaging the carpet or um moving it by myself, but I can actually lift it up just enough to get one of these furniture sliders under there and it'll move easily. And we'll show you how we go about doing that. So, I'm going to get down to this piece of furniture and there's a lot of knickknacks on top this piece of furniture. This happens to be my piece of furniture, so I'm not worried about them. And it's just for, you know, show purposes of moving this furniture. I'm not going to move them. But if you're dealing with a customer's house, you want to take and take everything off the furniture and then attempt to move it. So, we're just going to take one of these sliders. Going to

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