{"id":21204,"date":"2014-06-13T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?p=21204"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:00:34","slug":"ask-the-expert-what-goes-into-a-moving-box-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/ask-the-expert-what-goes-into-a-moving-box-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Expert: What Goes Into a Moving Box? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to moving, U-Haul truly is the expert in the DIY moving field &#8211; what other company has a fully staffed, dedicated test lab to make sure that the customer gets the best product possible at the lowest cost? No other company that we know of, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Moving Insider got a behind the scenes look at this test lab in Tempe, Ariz. when they were testing boxes from different retailers. \u00a0We know that all moving boxes aren&#8217;t created equal! When moving, there are three things to think about when considering overall price: box durability, usefulness and the environmental factors. In part one of three, we will look at the durability of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20140613-asktheexpertwhat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving box<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3>Moving Box Durability<\/h3>\n<p>A box needs to be built not only to stand up to moving day this time around, but next time too. Investing in a higher quality box is especially important for long term storage. A poorly designed box can crush over time and the risk of damage is always right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Durability - U-Haul Tech Lab Box Testing\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcja0wPhEKA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the next installment where we will discuss box usefulness!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Have you had to make a decision about what boxes to buy? Ever buy a moving box that didn&#8217;t make the cut? Let us know in the comments below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to moving, U-Haul truly is the expert in the DIY moving field &#8211; what other company has a fully staffed, dedicated test lab to make sure that the customer gets the best product possible at the lowest cost? No other company that we know of, that&#8217;s for sure. Moving Insider got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":21225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[497],"tags":[1184,114,130,134,165,184],"class_list":["post-21204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-the-expert","tag-flap-lock","tag-moving-box","tag-organization","tag-packing","tag-storage","tag-u-haul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51113,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions\/51113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}