{"id":21970,"date":"2014-07-22T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?p=21970"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:03:38","slug":"ask-the-expert-moving-box-water-durability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/ask-the-expert-moving-box-water-durability\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Expert: Moving Box Water Durability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Welcome back to our\u00a0\u201cWhat Goes Into a Moving Box?\u201d series! Before you proceed reading, make sure you are caught up on\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Part 1: Moving Box Durability\u00a0and <a title=\"Ask the Expert: What Goes Into a Moving Box? Part 2\" href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/2014\/07\/10\/moving-box-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2: Moving Box Usefulness.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Besides making it simple and convenient to move, U-Haul also tries to prepare the DIY mover for every possible scenario from a snow storm to monsoon season. Mother Nature tends to strike at the least expected moment, including moving day. We don&#8217;t want you to be worried about your boxes not being up for the battle.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Environmental Factors of a Moving Box<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Consider this: It&#8217;s moving day and rain is in the forecast. What boxes are going to keep your items safe and secure even in a heavy downpour? Believe it or not, there is a difference in the overall quality in something as simple as cardboard moving box &#8212; and that difference could end up saving you lots of headaches on moving day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Water Resistance - U-Haul Tech Lab Box Testing\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WV98fHsH11s?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This is Part 3 of our\u00a0\u201cWhat Goes Into a Moving Box?\u201d series and the conclusion of the series as well! Durability, usefulness and environmental factors create the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/Boxes\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20140722-asktheexpertmoving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ultimate moving box<\/a> for the ultimate DIY mover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><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><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to our\u00a0\u201cWhat Goes Into a Moving Box?\u201d series! Before you proceed reading, make sure you are caught up on\u00a0Part 1: Moving Box Durability\u00a0and Part 2: Moving Box Usefulness.\u00a0 Besides making it simple and convenient to move, U-Haul also tries to prepare the DIY mover for every possible scenario from a snow storm to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":22348,"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":[26,31,114,184],"class_list":["post-21970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-the-expert","tag-box","tag-cardboard-boxes","tag-moving-box","tag-u-haul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970","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=21970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51304,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions\/51304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}