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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Professional Moving Tips for the Do-It-Yourselfer
By Jim Carey - Go Mini’s of NY, NJ & CT
Serving Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster, Bergen, Fairfield and Litchfield
Our third in a series of professional moving tips for the do-it-yourself mover. If you have rented a portable storage container from Go Mini’s or anyone else, you are going to want to know how to best take care of your personal belongings. Refer to this blog as often as necessary to find the tips of all kinds. These are tips the pros would use too.
Tip #3 - Moving a washing machine - You must know these tips before you move one!
We chose the washing machine as a moving tip because moving a washing machine is a potential disaster. Don’t believe us? Movers move washing machines often enough and eventually get burned. And that’s why we have some very important tips for you. In this article, we will tell you the main problems and why they are so.
Problem #1 - Leaking valves
When you hook up a bran new washing machine, you connect your two water hoses from the hot and cold water valves to the hot and cold threaded stems on the back of the washing machine. Assuming this is done correctly, you open up the valves and - Voila! - your water supply is connected. You do not need to do anything with these hoses or valves. There is a good chance you will not touch them until you move or replace the washing machine with a new one. That’s fine, but understand that when you go to disconnect the hoses, the valves may not close for you and, even if they do at first, they may not stay closed. Here’s why. Your standard valve closes off the flow of water with a rubber “seat” inside. When the valve is new, the rubber is flexible and durable. But, over time, your water can corrode the “seat”. Hard mineral deposits can react with the rubber. Chlorinated water will dissolve the rubber. So when you close the valve, you may not have any rubber left to make the closed valve water tight.
Here is another warning! At first, the valves may hold water. But if the “seat” is corroded, a little bit of water pressure may break the seat and turn a drip into a steady flow. Now, if you were in the process of moving out of a house, imagine what could happen 24 or 48 hours after you left the house. The flood could start and will keep going. The problems are potentially disastrous. Imagine you are “down the road” to your new residence while the leak is beginning to reach all corners of the house; destroying carpet, walls or ceilings below. Sorry to scare anyone reading this, but the potential is very real. Bu there is a way to prevent it. Change the valve? No. The other valve is likely soldered onto a pipe and replacing the valve would require the expense of a plumber. The easiest way is to feel comfortable there will be no leak is to attach a threaded valve cap to the valve.
Just remove the hose from the valve. Put some teflon tape over the threads of the valve and firmly tighten a threaded valve cap. Now, if the valve will not hold water, the cap will.
Problem #2 - Never re-use those black hoses, which connect from the valve to the washing machine. Over time, the hoses can get brittle and crack. Solution? - Spend a few bucks and get new hoses.
Problem #3 - Another thing to think about is a conventional washing machine never fully drains all its water. So this means two things. It will be much heavier and will also leak water if you are carrying it on an angle. If possible, leave the washer open for a few days to let some of the water evaporate.
You can move a washing machine but you just need to be aware of the very real risks.
Go Mini’s portable storage containers make it easy to move and store your own items. Now you have professional advice for when you move your washing machine. Always check back to see the latest Professional Moving Tips for the do-it-yourselfer.
Go Mini’s of NY, NJ & CT is an authorized exclusive dealer for Go Mini’s Portable Storage Containers in the Metropolitan New York area serving the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster NY, Bergen NJ, Fairfield and Litchfield, CT. Call us at 866-Go Mini’s to help you move or store today.
Tags: do it yourself moving and storage, Go Mini's, mobile storage containers, moving a washing machine, moving appliances, portable storage containers, professional moving tips
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
by Jim Carey Go Mini’s NY, NJ, CT
Go Mini’s of NY, NJ, CT announces a new written series titled Professional Moving Tips to help the do-it your self mover to load their own portable storage container.
When moving your home with your own Go Mini’s container, Go Mini’s of NY, NJ and CT wants you to learn the tips of the pros and so we have created a series of moving tips for customers to follow. Go Mini’s of NY, NJ and CT has professional moving tips that will help you, the homeowner, protect your furniture while using as much space in the Mini as possible. Check back soon to our blog page for future announcements on moving tips the pros use. You will be glad you did. We will also have our tips available on twitter and facebook.
Tags: Go Mini's, moving your home, portable storage container, professional moving tips, protect your furniture
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Michael Maroon, owner of Go Mini’s Portable Storage of Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, is heading to Haiti to join the relief efforts. Michael is going with the Chadasha Foundation, a Christian group of physicians and businessmen in the Knoxville, TN area who are always working in Haiti. They have an orphanage and hospital there on a compound near the Dominican Republic border. They have turned the orphanage into a hospital, which was housing 500 to 600 patients as of January 19th. They will be there for 7 days.
We send our thoughts and prayers out to the people of Haiti and to everyone assisting in the relief efforts.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
by Jim Carey - Go Mini’s NY, NJ and CT
Alright. Here are the basics of the home staging contest where one lucky person could win a decluttering solution from Go Mini’s every month.
First, you need to live in the following service area counties in NY, NJ and CT:
1. In New York - Putnam County, Westchester, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster
2. In Connecticut - Fairfield, Litchfield
3. In New Jersey - Bergen
Now that we have the first and most important contest rule out of the way, here is what the contest is all about. We are looking to promote the use of Go Mini’s for decluttering a home. Whether its for spring cleaning or preparing to sell a home, we want to help some lucky homeowner once a month. Send us pictures of the interior of your home. Send your pictures to info@rentgominis.com. The home that has the most clutter in it will be awarded the use of a Go Mini portable storage container for 2 months for free. That’s 2 months to do home staging for a home sale, declutter the home or do anything else you want with it. One other important item. If you are home staging for a home sale, you will probably want to have the Mini taken off the property once you have filled it with all the things from inside your home. So, we will even take the Mini off your property and store it at our location for you.
The second rule is that by submitting your pictures to us, you give us permission to use the pictures on our web-site or other media. But, rest assured, your identity will be kept confidential by us.
Third rule - Even thought the Go Mini is free for 2 months. We will require a valid credit card just in case winners wish to keep the Go Mini container longer than 2 months.
Go Mini’s are ideal for home staging, decluttering and general clean up and storage of household items. Visit us on the web at the following Go Mini’s dealer web-sites:
Dutchess and Putnam - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc268/index-Dutchess_and_Putnam-Dutchess_&_Putnam_Portable_Storage_.html
Westchester - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc387/index-Westchester-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Fairfield - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc/index-Fairfield-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Rockland, Orange and Ulster - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc200/index-Orange_and_Rockland-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Bergen - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc200/index-Orange_and_Rockland-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
Litchfield - http://www.gominis.com/clancystoragellc288/index-Litchfield-Portable_Moving_and_Storage_Solutions.html
For additional contest questions, please e-mail or call us:
info@rentgominis.com
Toll Free (877) 881-5080
Tags: decluttering, Go Mini's, home staging, Portable Storage
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Dec 23, 2009
By Tammy Stevens, GO MINI’S Minneapolis, MN
What a fabulous opportunity. Here in our beautiful white winter GO MINI’S MN was able to donate one of our portable storage containers for a great cause. GO MINI’S was loud and proud out front of the Coldwell Banker Burnet Real Estate Agency waiting to accept the donations of toys from all the wonderful people in the community.
We just received a letter from the Branch Vice President Ken Johnson thanking us for our support and to let us know that they received over 750 toys for local children in need at the event held on Saturday, December 5th. “We are so fortunate to have such wonderful support from our community.”
These toys were donated to TOYS FOR TOTS by the agents & friends of Coldwell Banker Burnet’s Minnetonka/Excelsior offices as part of the annual “Trees for Toys” event. GO MINI’s MN Portable Storage was proud to be a part of such a heartfelt charitable cause.
See you next year!!! Happy Holidays
Tags: Go Mini's, Minneapolis, moving & storage, portable self storage, Portable Storage, portable storage rental, portable storage units, St. Paul
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
by Peter Dempsey - December 2009
The heavy wet snowfall that has fallen on Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland Counties, NY last night was followed by heavy rainfall. This lead to “ponding” of water in several areas and is causing basement flooding across the entire region. In some instances, there have been some flat roofs with water backing up and coming in through roofs. The result is flood damage and a big mess for home and business owners.
Go Mini’s has dispatched several of its weather proof portable storage units this morning. Restoration companies as well as home and business owners have called looking for immediate delivery. Call volume began to slow down from early this morning when flooding first began to occur. Perhaps Ulster County in the northern area of our service region will start to see flooding. The snow lasted a bit longer there.
We are thankful for the continued business from our restoration companies and wish our new customers from this morning good luck in dealing with these floods. Our Go Mini’s stand 8 inches off the ground so the items they put in the Mini will be safe. But we have cautioned them to keep snow from building up around the Mini just to be sure there are no chances of water rising above the 8 inch ground clearance. Do any Go Mini’s dealers have any stories of flooding after a snow storm? Let us know.
Tags: Dutchess, flat roofs flooding, flood damage, home, Orange, Portable Storage, Putnam, Restoration companies, Rockland, weatherproof storage, Westchester
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
By Tom Grimes - Go Mini’s of NY, CT and NJ - December 8, 2009
We all agree the original portable on demand storage concept came from PODS. Hence their name. They grew into a corporate giant with their first to market advantage and, quite frankly, their great concept for moving and storage. But they are also being outpaced in many markets by smaller, locally operated portable storage container companies. Go Mini’s in the New York metro area (specifically Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Ulster, Litchfield, Fairfield and Bergen Counties) is one such company doing just that.
Instead of a national call center to handle customer calls, Go Mini’s of NY, CT & NJ handles calls locally. So many of their customers are of the “need it now” type. They can’t get that from PODS. But when they call Go Mini’s, the person on the phone usually knows where the delivery trucks are and can arrange an urgent delivery happen in just a few minutes. Customers love knowing they do not need to spend time on the phone waiting for a special person to arrange an expedited delivery. With Go Mini’s, they know fast response is a common practice. This fast response time is critical to the restoration business, to contractors, to Realtors whose clients move out of a home and have a closing fall through on they one they are supposed to move to. You get the point. It is important to get the customer their Mini quickly. In the counties listed above, there is nobody faster than Go Mini’s. Because Go Mini’s meets the needs of these customers, they become repeat customers.
Tom Grimes is a local representative of Go Mini’s. Tom creates relationships with businesses in different industries who never knew they could have such an easy portable storage system that delivers quickly in support of their operation. If you have a need for portable storage, whether it is for holiday inventory, renovating or restoration projects, de-cluttering or home staging, give Go Mini’s a call.
Tags: Go Mini's NY CT NJ, Go Mini's Westchester Putnam Dutchess Orange Rockland Ulster Fairfield Litchfield Bergen, holiday inventory, PODS, Portable Moving and Storage, Portable on demand storage, Portable Storage, renovating, restoration
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
November 19, 2009
By Tammy Stevens, GO MINI’S - Minneapolis, MN
Last week my husband, Dirk Stevens and I were invited to one of the largest ServiceMasters Restoration Companies that serve the Minneapolis area, celebrating their new warehouse.
ServiceMasters is one of many restoration companies that has been using our GO MINI’S dealership for over 3 years now and I asked them why they used GO MINI’S ? The answer seemed universal amongst all our restoration companies. They said it was simple…we were easy to do business with! They loved working with a locally owned agency. A one-minute phone call with their purchase order, the delivery address, when they needed it and where to place the portable storage container and the transaction was done.
Our clients have more than enough to do when there is a water or fire emergency and know that we understand a sense of urgency. All our restoration companies have our home phone but do not abuse it. Having a vendor’s home phone makes a statement about our commitment.
GO MINI’S has been a fantastic fit for restoration companies.
Tags: Anoka, Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Fridley, Go Mini's, Inver Grove Heights, Lino Lakes, Minneapolis, moving & storage, Portable Storage, Ramsey, St. Paul, Woodbury
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Home Staging with Go Mini’s in NY, NJ & CT
By Jim Carey, Go Mini’s of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
Go Mini’s offers a variety of benefits to homeowners preparing to sell their home. When preparing to sell a home, a small investment in staging will help you sell your home faster AND for more money. Home-staging and decluttering may seem like a daunting task, but Go Mini’s makes the process so much faster and easier. Here is a great article from our associate home stager, Claudia Jacobs, to explain why home staging is so beneficial.
Stage It Before You List It
By Claudia Jacobs
Listing a house before staging it is like going to a business meeting in your bathrobe and slippers. The first five to 10 days a house is on the market is the time when the most foot traffic between buyers, agents and brokers occurs. More people will tour the property in the beginning, so why not stage it before you list it and show the property at its best right from the start.
Sure, staging will help if you wait 30, 60 or 90 days to market the house, but by then it’s no longer a fresh listing. A house for sale draws most of its potential buyers during the first 10 days on the market. Why gamble by not making a great first impression?
Ideally the best time to stage is months before the house goes on the market. A typical staging client is the homeowner who is going to sell in the near future and is willing to do what it takes to prepare the house to sell. This is the listing a Realtor wants because a staged home is ready for its close up from day one.
It is difficult to be objective in one’s own home. A staging consultation gives room-by-room instructions on what needs to be done before putting the house on the market. The staging professional offers suggestions for the de-cluttering process, including storage solutions with an eye toward a future move.
Some Realtors do not want to offend their clients with brutal honesty but a staging professional knows how to handle all those negative situations and touchy subjects with creative ideas that will pay dividends at closing. Staging is also tax deductable to the seller (IRS form 523, Selling Your Home).
For Realtors, including home staging to your presentation is smart marketing and sets that realtor apart as someone who has the best interest of the seller in mind. It also shows knowledge of current marketing strategies, which can help a Realtor get the listing.
Claudia is a long time associate of Go-Mini’s in NY, NJ & CT. She operates Claudia Jacobs Designs in Goshen NY and is an experienced decorator specializing in real estate staging. She can be reached at 845-294-8993 or online at www.claudiajacobsdesign.com .
Home staging makes so much sense for the home seller. Remember that most people view a home in the first 10 days. Call Go Mini’s in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut to bring you one of their portable storage units quickly. You will make the tasks of home staging and decluttering go so much faster and easier.
Tags: Connecticut, CT, declutter, Dutchess, Fairfield, Go Mini’s, home selling tips, home staging tips, How to home stage, Hudson Valley, Litchfield, New Jersey, New York, NJ, NY, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
By: Ron Lambert, General Manager GO Mini’s, Broken Arrow, OK
Well it’s that time of year again! The annual TOYS FOR TOTS program is about to kick off. GO Mini’s, along with the Marines in the Tulsa, OK area, have once again joined together to assist in providing the community with a safe place to bring toys for the area’s children. GO Mini’s has delivered 2 containers to the Marines headquarters located in Broken Arrow, OK and they are getting ready to start collecting all the toys for the local children.
This is the third year that GO Mini’s has joined the Marines in this effort. GO Mini’s knows that without the support and encouragement of the Tulsa, OK and surrounding area, we would not be the success we have come to be. GO Mini’s also stresses that with the economic roller coaster, as it has been in the prior months, there are alot more families unable to provide the gifts for their children as they have the years before and we all know the joy of seeing our childrens eyes light up on Christmas morning when they see that special gift. Let’s remind them all that we are a community that helps our fellow neighbors through all hard and good times by participating in the local TOYS FOR TOTS.
GO Mini’s has a facility located in Broken Arrow, OK and is a proud partner with the TOYS FOR TOTS program and again, encourage anyone that is able to help our children to please do so. We also would like to wish everyone an upcoming safe and happy holiday season.
Tags: Bartlesville, Beggs, Bixby, Broken Arrow, Catoosa, Claremore, Collinsville, Coweta, Glenpool, Go Mini's, Jenks, moving & storage, Muskogee, Owasso, Portable Storage, Pryor, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Tahlequah, Tulsa
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