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Moving all Your Furniture into Storage (So You Can Travel For a Few Months)

Planning a trip that will keep you away from home for a certain amount of time? Perhaps you’ll be backpacking Europe for 6 months… or taking a ‘no rules’ road trip cross country to live it up.

Whether you are hitting the road with nothing but a backpack or nothing but a motorcycle… chances are high that you won’t want to continue paying rent while you are gone. Traveling expenses can be quite expensive (especially with the rising prices of gas) and you’ll want the ability to spend as irresponsibly as you can for this vacation!

There is an easy solution! A short term residential relocation can be very easy when you research your options and compare rates between storage units companies. You’ll find that not only is a storage unit much more affordable than monthly rent of an apartment (that you won’t be residing in for a significant amount of time), but there are also ‘special offers’ when you are a new customer.

For example, if you need to do a short term residential relocation into a storage unit for only 2 months, you might be happy to know that many storage units will give new customers their first month free, even without a minimum term contract!

When you are planning on traveling and being away for a few months, you might be ready to look for a new apartment when you return anyways. So a residential relocation into a storage unit can save you money and relieve the hassle of a more permanent residential relocation upon your return!

Even if you own a house, and do not wish to move when you return, it is still a smart idea to use a storage unit while you are away. Since nobody will be residing in your home for an extended amount of time, it can be dangerous to leave valuable items in a vacant household.

So when you are planning to be away from home for a few months, a temporary / short term residential relocation of valuable items into a storage unit is always a safe and smart decision.

When you are simply planning on taking off for the winter to a vacation home in Florida, a short term residential relocation into a storage unit is still an affordable and smart decision. Valuable items can not be burglarized from a storage unit.

The best thing about a temporary residential relocation is that when you return and move everything back in, you can avoid that awful feeling of your vacation being over. Moving everything back into your home allows you to re-arrange furniture and redecorate rooms.

International Moving

When your bathroom tile has become so cracked and the grout so loose and missing that water starts to seep underneath to the floorboards, then you have a problem.  The water damage occurring to the floor underneath the tile is a potentially expensive and time consuming problem to take care of, so going ahead and replacing the damaged tile is a good idea.

You will need a tile cutter, chalk line, a grout float, tape measure, rubber mallet, notched trowel, level, and a pull saw. 

To measure how much of a square tile you will need, you should draw the room’s layout on a piece of graph paper.  Each square should represent a tile.  The measurements should be checked more than once so you know just how much tile you need to order.  After you figure that number, order at least 5 to 10 percent more tile so you will have a cushion in case you damage some of it.

Selecting the correct color grout is also a consideration.  Dark grout can be used in high traffic areas to hide dirt. 

Before laying the tile, you need a smooth, tough subfloor to put the tiles on.  Ceramic tiles do not flex and an uneven surface can cause them to crack.  The baseboards and the trim molding needs to be removed temporarily and the pull saw will be used to trim door casings and jambs so the tile’s thickness will be accepted.

All appliances must be removed from the floor, including toilets

Start in the center of the room next to the main entrance and lay down a row of tiles without using any adhesive so you have a guide.  Each tile should have an equal amount of space between them.  The tiles should be perpendicular to the door.

The techniques used to actually install the tile vary depending on the kind of tile being put down and the size of it.  Applying it to the tile instead of the floor is recommended for tiles larger than 8 by 8 inches.  It should be skimmed with thinset mortar almost like peanut butter and this needs to be applied with the notched trowel; the trowel will help prevent weak spots in the installation.  Use the tile cutter and nippers to cut the tile to fit certain areas of the room that will not accept a square tile. 

After you are done laying the tile, the grout phase will come next.  Apply it with your grout float and use a clean float to remove the excess.  After about 15 minutes, wipe the rest of the excess away with a sponge and some water.  Let it set for a day before walking on it.

Installing the tile correctly will waterproof your bathroom floor and prevent water damage from occurring to the wooden floor underneath and save you a large amount of money in the long run.

Flood Damage Cleanup

Food in our refrigerators becoming contaminated with mold is just a simple fact of life.  It is fairly inevitable, no matter how clean you try to keep your refrigerator, but which foods do you throw away?

It grows on everything that we eat and a few things that we do not, but when we find it in our refrigerators, we often end up arguing with ourselves over whether or not it will still be safe to eat if we remove the molded portions.  The fact is that most foods, when they become contaminated with mold, cannot be saved.  It can be a jar of our favorite jam or the sour cream you love to put on top of tacos, but if it gets mold on it, you might as well just toss it.  Go buy another container and save yourself the trouble of a doctor visit later.  

The reason that you need to throw most items away is that foods that have a high amount of moisture in them such as sour cream, cottage cheese, jellies, and jams, will become contaminated all the way through them because they are soft foods.  The mold can easily get to the rest of the container, unlike in more dense items like blocks of cheese or in dense meats like hard salami.  If mold gets onto these more dense items, you can generally cut out the moldy parts and just throw them away.  As long as you cut one inch around and underneath the molded part of the food and throw it in the garbage, the rest of the item should be fine to eat.

When you bring home fruits and vegetables, make sure that they are clean and have no bad spots on them.  If they do, make sure and cut them off before storing them in your refrigerator.  Some fruits and vegetables will be fine when stored in plastic, but the use of re-sealable plastic bags is recommended over simple plastic wrap.  Throw away any fruit or vegetables that have become contaminated, since this will cause other items nearby to become contaminated, as well. 

Anything that has been baked such as cakes or breads should be thrown away if you find mold growing on them.  These foods are porous and the mold is likely to have contaminated the majority of it.

Lunch meats should also be thrown away if they are found to be contaminated.  These have a high moisture content and cannot be saved.

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