Moving art and antiques

Always prepared.
When you move house, there are often items that need extra special care, some because they have sentimental worth and are irreplaceable despite not having a large monetary value, others because they are fragile, and some because they are valuable. We’ve looked at the packing and reassembling of pianos before, so now let’s turn to valuable antiques and artworks and see what goes into keeping them safe so they can embark on their journey from home to home unharmed and unscathed.Priceless possessions can be one of the biggest worries as your moving day approaches.Some of our belongings are so important that the tiniest of scratches is enough to ruin them and drastically diminish their value. Before they’ve even been loaded into vehicles, they face the hazardous voyage down corridors, flights of stairs and through doorways, each stage imperilling them if they aren’t in capable hands. Then there’s the chaos of UK roads, with vehicles often forced to make sudden stops and starts. The risk then is that the contents of moving vans will rattle around wildly if they haven’t been loaded securely.