{"id":23730,"date":"2014-09-16T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?p=23730"},"modified":"2019-08-01T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:09:02","slug":"remodeling-made-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/remodeling-made-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Remodeling Made Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Designing-Spaces-6-20-14-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23765 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Designing-Spaces-6-20-14-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Remodeling with Portable Storage\" width=\"309\" height=\"232\"><\/a>As a moving product expert, I get to help people&nbsp;choose the right products and services, often when they don&#8217;t even&nbsp;know they exist! I was recently invited to appear on Lifetime network&#8217;s show, &#8220;Designing Spaces,&#8221; as they were helping a&nbsp;couple extensively&nbsp;remodel&nbsp;a few rooms in their home&nbsp;before their daughters returned from college for winter break. The challenge here was multifaceted, as any moving or storage situation often is. It took&nbsp;using <a title=\"U-Box portable storage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/UBox\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=ubox&amp;utm_content=21040916-remodelingmadeeasier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U-Box <\/a>portable storage and&nbsp;some hands-on assistance from<a title=\"Moving Help\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingHelp\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movinghelp&amp;utm_content=21040916-remodelingmadeeasier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Moving Help<\/a>&nbsp;to get this remodeling job done!<\/p>\n<h3>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-42826\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iPhone-Image-F2C4D2-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">Convenient, Versatile&nbsp;Storage<\/h3>\n<p>To avoid the potential hazard of any personal items getting damaged during the remodel process while keeping the rest of the home clutter-free and livable, Melanie wanted to store her valuable&nbsp;items outside the home. Often times, this means making multiple trips to a storage facility, dealing with limited access hours, battling for a space close to the building, and of course,&nbsp;the dreaded cargo elevator. U-Box offers a huge advantage here through its&#8217; versatile nature &#8211; we brought along&nbsp;one U-Box container&nbsp;on a trailer, making&nbsp;loading as easy as walking out the front door. With all of her smaller items <a title=\"Moving Supplies\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=21040916-remodelingmadeeasier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">securely&nbsp;boxed and loaded<\/a>, we moved on to the big stuff and realized we needed a little more&#8230; of everything.<\/p>\n<h3>Help Moving&nbsp;Your Belongings (and More)<\/h3>\n<p>After a full morning of packing and loading boxes, Melanie was in no way prepared to move furniture. That&#8217;s when&nbsp;Moving Help came to the rescue!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Moving Helpers&nbsp;<\/strong>are local men and women who can assist you with loading, unloading, even packing and cleaning, during your move!<\/li>\n<li>The service&nbsp;is&nbsp;based on an online marketplace&nbsp;that U-Haul hosts, allowing customers to&nbsp;make a selection&nbsp;based on other&nbsp;users&#8217; reviews, pricing, and services offered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The two guys that showed up were great &#8211; they took tremendous care protecting all of Melanie&#8217;s furniture by wrapping everything with blankets and shrink wrap as well as properly loading the U-Box containers to ensure nothing would shift during transit to&nbsp;one of their secure warehouses. Their professionalism was evident, as we were soon&nbsp;finished, and I&nbsp;called again to have the U-Box containers&nbsp;picked-up and stored. This&nbsp;allowed Melanie and her husband use of their garage again, and freed-up space for their contractors to come in and park in the driveway. The opportunity to tell folks about great products and services like U-Box and Moving Help is a very rewarding part of what I do, and hopefully you now know that moving and storage no longer means simply renting a truck or trailer&nbsp;or searching for&nbsp;a safe storage facility in your town.<\/p>\n<p>You can view&nbsp;the &#8220;Designing Spaces&#8221; segment below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do-It-Yourself Moves and Storage\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAKaiocb5TA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have any questions or stories of your own about how these new services can make your life easier, please drop a line in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a moving product expert, I get to help people&nbsp;choose the right products and services, often when they don&#8217;t even&nbsp;know they exist! 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