You might be interested in selling off majority of your items before moving to the new home but you wouldn’t do it with your electronic items. Nevertheless, the electronic items can be the most fragile articles you move to your new home.

Here, you can follow instructions for safety packing in order to ensure that those items arrive at your new home without getting damaged. Having that said, a few things that you need to take into consideration are as under.

While packing items, read the product manual. In the product manuals, it is clearly mentioned how to store those items. For instance, you can get information about ideal temperature for storing and also about the way these items need to be packed.

Ideally, you need to have appropriately sized boxes along with the Styrofoam which keeps the items cushioned well in the boxes. However, you may not have boxes of this appropriate size. However, the situation may not be this ideal. So you have to make sure that the box you are picking is slightly larger than the electronic item you are going to pack. Here, you also have to ensure that the box you are going to use is durable and sealed well.

When it comes to packing delicate items, this is to be ensured that boxes are sealed well. For this purpose, you have to bring a lot of packing tape which is going to seal the box. Cushioning the item inside the box is also very essential. For this purpose, you will need to bring items such as bubble wrap, Styrofoam insert, packing blankets and plastic wrap. These items ensure proper safety of electronic items. Also bring custom-made foam packing for better shock absorption.

Disconnecting the cable is quite necessary before you pack the items. That’s because of the fact that any cable plugged in any socket can damage the item during transit. In order to make sure that you could easily connect every cable after unpacking, you can label the cables. For this purpose, you can either attach name chits or you can use color labels.

Cold temperature is not usually ideal for many of the valuable electronic items such as smartphones, tablets and laptops. Therefore, you can choose not to pack these items to be placed in the moving truck or in the storage warehouse. You can move these items with you in the car you travel.

Make sure that you have removed batteries from the items. The reason for this recommendation is you don’t want the battery acid to leak into the item. Furthermore, leaving the battery to remain inside the item increases the possibility of item to turn on by itself and then overheat.