Moving entails making many decisions. One of the decisions you will also need to make is whether to hire professional Boise movers or do it yourself. Both have pros and cons; understanding each will help you make the right choice.
Professional Movers
A professional mover offers moving services to help families and individuals move their households. Most of them provide packing services. These packing services don’t just involve unpacking. They also include packing special request items and packing special items. Examples of these items are large electronics, pianos, and pool tables.
Other movers provide additional services, such as organizing boxes in a new home, assembling furniture, and disassembling furniture.
Pros
- Time-saving: Hiring a mover also frees up time to concentrate on other core activities.
- Insurance coverage: Accidents do happen. So, you will need a reliable moving company with insurance coverage.
- Convenience: Relocating is stressful enough, but moving companies provide one-stop-shop solutions. These solutions coordinate logistics and offer packing supplies.
- Efficiency: A professional mover is a master of efficiency.
Cons
- Less flexibility: Aligning your scheduling with your mover’s is a challenge for hiring experts. Movers often work on set timeframes, so you might be forced to accommodate their availability, making the entire process less flexible.
- Limited ownership: Because moving companies handle the move, they deal with packing, transportation, loading, and offloading. This, in turn, reduces your involvement throughout the process.
DIY Moving
DIY moving or self-move is when we take it upon ourselves to handle every moving aspect. This includes renting moving trucks, packing our things, loading, unloading, and driving trucks to the new location.
Pros
- Complete control: Through DIY, we manage all the details associated with the move, including packing and scheduling. This helps ensure that our invaluable or fragile things are handled correctly.
- Privacy & security: Dealing with our things ensures complete control and privacy. Sensitive belongings remain under our supervision throughout the process.
- Cost savings: Relocating by yourself will cut our expenses. Renting trucks or buying packing materials costs 50% less than when we hire a professional mover, especially for local moves.
- Flexible timing: Through DIY, we can work at our own pace. Without any constraints of experts’ schedules, we can unload, load, pack, and unpack our things at our own convenience.
Cons
- Potential for stress: Relocating may quickly become stressful, mainly if you handle everything alone. Balancing driving, physical labor, and planning may result in unnecessary stress.
- Limited equipment & resources: Unlike professionals, you might not have the tools to protect your things and move them more safely. Without straps, dollies, or pads, the risks of damage will increase.
- Physical labor & injury risks: Lifting huge and heavy items without the proper equipment or training may result in injuries.
In conclusion, many homeowners opt for DIY moves to save on expenses. However, they get fatigued after the process. If you own a large home, you may hire a mover to help you pack, load, unload, and unpack your things at a fee.