Moving house - bubble wrap!

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Hi all,

Moving house this month and we need a decent amount of bubble wrap to pack glasses etc where is the cheapest place to get it in decent quantities? Thanks!
 
eBay tbh. I find all packing materials are cheapest on there. Buy a massive roll, better to go for the jiffy branded stuff, its less likely to lose the bubbles and much easier to tear.

Ignore £shop, tiny roll for a lot of money!
 
Edrof said:
Slum it and get free property newspapers, etc! Worked fine for us. :)
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This man speaks sense!

I moved twice in 2 years, both times with newpapers wrapping and padding. My second moved 50 miles across Yorkshire, nothing broken.

Get all your boxes from your local shops. My total spend for packaging on both occasions were a grand total £5ish, mostly for the cost of tapes.
 
For boxes try your local hospital, esp the renal unit they normally have decent sized boxes that they chuck away, they are normally sitting in the metal cages to be chucked.
 
Mr Jones said:
This man speaks sense!

I moved twice in 2 years, both times with newpapers wrapping and padding. My second moved 50 miles across Yorkshire, nothing broken.

Get all your boxes from your local shops. My total spend for packaging on both occasions were a grand total £5ish, mostly for the cost of tapes.
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i used to work for a removal company in the few months before i went to uni. they just used paper to wrap stuff. packed in tea chests. you dont need bubble wrap really if you stack them right. just use a big sturdy box, paper and save yourself some cash.
 
Agreed. I've just moved, and the only stuff I used bubble wrap for was a couple of mirrors too big to fit in boxes. As long as you pack everything in boxes, you just need to wrap each glass etc in newspaper, then make sure everything is packed tightly enough together in the boxes that things can't move about. I've moved loads of times, and nothing had been broken.
 
Haze said:
goto Morrisons speak to produce and get tons of the stuff for free
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Aye, or if you know in advance every time you go for anything pick up a fruit box (ours has them at the checkouts), no good for big stuff, but ideal for things like books/CD's/DVD's as you can fill them without them getting too heavy, and then they stack nicely.

For Bubblewrap possibly try a self storage place, or as mentioned garden centres (my brother in law works at a place that makes it, but unfortnately isn't allowed to bring home the rejects*).



*From memory it's re4jected if not perfect:p (but they run normal wrap through a shredder).
 
I couldn't believe it at first when our removal people delivered crap loads of boxes and paper...but no bubble wrap. All was fine though, nothing broke.
 
Another vote for eBay.

A mate of mine ordered a few 100m rolls of the stuff not long back when he was moving his business to new premises. Much fun was to be had by drinking whisky, wrapping ourselves in the bubble wrap and rolling off his garage roof.
 
As someone who has moved house 6 times in 6 years, and is about to make it 7 in 6, i can honestly say newspaper is all you need :p
 
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