When it comes to packing up a house, the bathroom is often overlooked until the last minute as it receives so much traffic in the home.
However, while it’s likely one of the last rooms you’ll pack before moving house, packing up your bathroom is still an important job to get right to ensure none of your toiletries leak or your fragile items get broken during transit.
To pack a bathroom for moving house, you will need to:
- Remove possessions from the cabinets
- Declutter your bathroom
- Pack a bag of essentials before boxing up your toiletries
- Bubble wrap fragile items
- Prepare cabinets for the move
- Label your boxes
1. Remove Possessions From The Cabinets
Before you begin packing your bathroom up, you will first need to remove all your possessions from the cabinets.
This can be quite a messy process, which is another reason why you’ll want to pack your bathroom last before moving into a new house.
Once you’ve pulled everything out of your cabinets, you can begin sorting your possessions into piles to help you declutter your bathroom in the next step.
While it’s one of the last rooms you’ll pack before moving house, packing up your bathroom is still an important job to get right to ensure none of your toiletries leak or your fragile items get broken during transit.
2. Declutter Your Bathroom
Once you’ve got all of your belongings out of the cabinets and into piles, you’ll be able to see what you have and you can begin decluttering your bathroom.
Moving house is the perfect time to sort through all of your toiletries and belongings to see what’s worth and not worth keeping. As such, you will want to keep a bag next to you that you can easily place things into to recycle to make moving a more manageable process.
This will give you the opportunity to get rid of any empty bottles and will help you to save space in the long run.
3. Pack A Bag Of Essentials Before Boxing Up Your Toiletries
Next, it’s time to pack your toiletries. However, just before you do this, make sure that you pack a bag of essentials that you can easily access.
This should contain essential items that you’ll need every single day such as toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, and soap, as you won’t want to move without access to these items.
To pack your toiletries, you will first need to line sturdy cardboard boxes with towels. This is designed to soak up any liquid should any bottles leak during the move.
Once you’ve lined your box with a towel, you can begin packing boxes with toiletries. Once finished, cover them with a towel, and secure the box with packing tape.
Moving house is the perfect time to sort through all of your toiletries and belongings to see what’s worth and not worth keeping.
4. Bubble Wrap Fragile Items
Once you’ve boxed up your toiletries, you will need to bubble wrap any fragile items ahead of the move.
That said, you will need to bubble wrap any fragile items in your bathroom. This can include mirrors or photo frames that are hanging on the wall, or anything else that is likely to smash in the move.
For electrical items such as toothbrush chargers and electric shavers, these items are best packed with your other electrical items.
5. Prepare Cabinets For The Move
While many bathrooms have built-in storage, you might be taking some of your bathroom cabinets and cupboards with you.
If this is the case, you will need to make sure you remove any bathroom cabinets that are hanging up from the walls carefully with a drill and place them on the floor, ready to be moved. You will also need to label them appropriately.
Failure to remove your bathroom cabinets from the wall ahead of time will likely result in your cabinets not being packed, particularly if you’ve not indicated that you’d liked them moved.
6. Label Your Boxes
Last, but not least, be sure to label all of your boxes appropriately in preparation for the professional removal company.
For any delicate items in your bathroom, you will need to write a Fragile label on the box to indicate to the removal company that they should take care when moving the boxes.
Make sure you remove any bathroom cabinets that are hanging up from the walls carefully with a drill and place them on the floor, ready to be moved.
We hope that this article has given you a better idea of how to pack up your bathroom before moving house.
To learn more about our Swansea furniture removals or purpose-built storage facilities, contact Nathan. At Falconers we use meticulous moving techniques, passed down and perfected through generations for over 132 years, to ensure your goods are moved with expert precision and kept in perfect condition. For more expert advice on how to pack, move and store your belongings — or other FAQs on how removals work — check out our blog page.
Written by Jemima Thomas for Falconer Removals & Storage.
