CVLU Episode 4: How to Safely Pack Mirrors and Artwork for Moving

Hello Rick here with Colonial Van Lines University, the official training facility

of Colonial Van Lines. Welcome to our Channel where we provide specialized

training for our moving professionals. Today, we are going to discuss boxing a piece of art!

Well, here’s our piece of artwork that we are going to protect today.

First thing you do, you put it face down on a piece of brown paper, you fold

one side in,

creasing the edge, you fold the other side in,

creasing the edge

you fold the top down

use a little bit of tape to hold that in place

then you fold the top up

so essentially you have protected

the piece of art

so this is the same way that you can protect a smaller mirror: you use a brown piece of paper

you protect it in the same way. This is a mirror pack. This is what we can build a box with to

protect artwork or mirrors or anything that is flat, a piece of marble or something like that

basically what you do is you create corners fold this down bring that in take your tape

secure the flaps

sometimes you can make a small box with two pieces

you put the piece of artwork, the TV or whatever, inside and you put them together and as

you can see you have a box that protects it in this instance we’re going to need four

pieces. You could use as many as six eight however many you need to create a large box

so I put my fourth piece together. After I got my fourth piece together, I’ll

take a little bit of paper after putting the two sections together

crumple it a little bit, put it down into the box

so that the piece of artwork or the mirror or the television or whatever it may be

sits on a cushion of paper. So you take the piece

put it inside centering as best you can

you bring the pieces together. You take the other two pieces

put them together

and you put some protective paper in the top

and you also put a little bit on the sides

so that way you won’t have any damage from it moving laterally

you take this

and put it over the top, bring it down tight, bringing it together

and you have a box that is protecting your artwork. You tape the flaps together, you go

around a couple of times, and you’ve got a protective piece of artwork.

Today we talked about using the mirror pack, a very versatile piece of box that you can use for either

mirrors, for artwork, for televisions, for marble – wherever you need a good flat box

to protect a piece of our customers belongings. So thank you for learning

with Colonial Van Lines today. Stay tuned for many more training videos coming very soon!