Furniture dollies make rearranging office furniture or swapping furniture between offices a much simpler and quicker task than when you lift and carry the furniture. Not only do dollies improve your efficiency, furniture moving with dollies significantly decreases the risk of injury to your employees.
Just about any small or medium-sized business should buy a furniture dolly and because of their affordability, consider buying more than one; some dollies are task specific and some can perform multiple functions. In your search for dollies, consider the following:
1. Move furniture with dollies to ultimately help protect your bottom line; you certainly want to avoid any potential Workers Compensation situations created by unnecessary and unsafe heavy lifting.
2. Buy furniture dollies to improve your employees' efficiency; you want them to produce, not waste extra time moving furniture.
3. Select furniture dollies for sale with the right configuration, size, shape and weight capacity to meet your needs.
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Buy furniture dollies for many uses
Dollies for moving furniture typically resemble a flat deck on wheels, so they can serve as multifunctional work horses, too. Besides furniture moving, use furniture dollies to move supplies or water coolers or even as a holding table for things you want to store temporarily like reams of copier or computer paper.
I recommend: Buy a furniture dolly like the solid wood one at
Hand Trucks 'R' Us. To protect the surface of the items you're moving, transport furniture with dollies that have carpeted ends or rubber bumpers like the ones at
Global Industrial Equipment. Order the convertible dolly at
HandTrucks.com that works as a two-wheeled utility dolly with a 500-pound weight capacity or as a four-wheeled dolly that holds up to 1,000 pounds.
Purchase dollies constructed for specific purposes and types of furniture
Manufacturers have honed dolly construction to match specific pieces of furniture. Some furniture dollies for sale work perfectly for moving desks, while others allow you to easily move folding tables, and filing cabinets.
I recommend: Regardless of whether your desk has one pedestal or two, the desk mover at
L.K. Goodwin can handle the job. Consider the pair of dollies at
Office1000 for moving furniture like file cabinets. You won't find many things less enjoyable than breaking down a room after a meeting and stacking and moving chairs out of the way. Invest in at least one of the chair dollies at
BizChair, and purchase the TableMover dolly at
C&H to move folding tables out of sight.
Rent a furniture dolly if you don't want to buy
If you don't have the storage space or can't justify the purchase, you can always rent furniture dollies when you need them.
I recommend: Find the nearest
U-Haul and inquire about a furniture dolly rental. You can also rent a furniture dolly from
New Haven or
Dollies & Boxes Unlimited.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide
- When using more than one furniture dolly to move a single piece of furniture, ensure at least one other person helps to avoid injury. Even though you can lift one end of an object to place on the dolly, the object may roll away as you position another dolly on the opposite side.
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