How to pack a climate-controlled unit so everything comes out like it went in
Climate control does half the work. The other half is how you pack. A few rules from ten years of watching people do it.
A climate-controlled unit keeps the temperature steady and the humidity down. That's what protects wood, electronics and paper. But it can't fix a couch stored on its arm or a TV stored face down. How you pack matters as much as where.
Furniture: take it apart where you can, wrap it in moving blankets rather than plastic, and stand sofas on their feet. Plastic traps the little moisture that's left; blankets let it out.
Electronics: original boxes if you have them, otherwise a box with two inches of padding on every side. Stand TVs upright, never flat. Label the cables.
Paper and photos: plastic totes with lids, not cardboard, off the floor on a pallet or a shelf. Albums flat, files upright.
Mattresses: a mattress bag, standing on the long edge against a wall. Never on top of boxes, never on the floor.
And leave an aisle. A foot of walkway down the middle, heavy boxes on the bottom, the things you'll want first at the front. You'll thank yourself in February.
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