HOW DO I PROTECT MY FLOORS FROM DAMAGE?
We can't predict your flooring type, quality or durability. There are many flooring types from carpet, hardwoods, laminates, tiles and concrete.
Therefore it is the responsibility of the customer to prepare the floors for our arrival. If ordered in advance, we can provide flooring protection products at a charge.
Examples:
Carpet - this can be protected with carpet mask (the sticky plastic that rolls on) but depending on the traffic, this can wear out.
Tile - rarely needs to be protected. I have seen times when a 4000 lb safe was being moved that the tiles actually cracked under the weight of the safe. In this case, the building was ben renovated so no protection was used, but if the flooring needed protection, we would have put down plywood.
Hardwood - typically customers put down plywood or luan or brown paper. It depends on the size of the move and the items being moved.
Laminate - these are pretty durable flooring applications and rarely do customers feel the need to protect them. But if they do, it is usually treated like hardwood.
VCT - Vinyl composition tile is seen mostly in commercial properties. The same pattern is all the way through the tile. It is a very durable surface and rarely do customers protect this flooring but if they do, they protect it similar to hardwood and laminate.
Concrete - enough said!
Flooring protection must be requested by the customer prior to the move date.
There is a charge for carpet/floor mask depending upon the size of coverage needed and amount of materials used.