Packers and Movers in Munnar

Packers and movers in Munnar are working in a climate that has almost nothing in common with the rest of the state. Sixteen hundred metres of altitude, mist for much of the year, a monsoon that goes on and on, and temperatures low enough that things simply stop drying. On the coast a damp carton dries out in a day. Here it does not, and by the third week it has mould in it. So the rule we work to is that nothing travels damp. Not a mattress, not upholstery, not clothes out of a cupboard on a wet morning, not the underside of a wardrobe that has been standing against an outside wall. If it goes into a sealed carton with moisture in it, the carton is the problem rather than the journey. We check for it, we will delay a load rather than seal a wet one, and where the weather leaves us no choice we pack ventilated instead of sealed and say so. The second thing is condensation, which catches people out because it happens after the move rather than during it. Anything that comes up from the plains arrives cold, and cold metal and glass in a warmer room sweats. Electronics, a television, a fridge, anything with a circuit board wants standing for several hours in the room it will live in before it is opened or switched on. It is the same principle as a fridge that has travelled on its side, for a different reason, and it costs nothing but patience. The housing here shapes the rest. Estate bungalows and staff quarters with tin roofs and timber that swells in the wet, plus town accommodation and a fair amount of tourism property. Timber doors and window frames that closed perfectly in March can stick in July, which matters when you are carrying an almirah through them, so we measure in the condition the house is actually in rather than trusting a remembered dimension. Leather, paper, books and anything wooden are the items most at risk here, and they get the most attention. The approach is the part visitors assume will be the difficulty and it is the part we say least about, because it is well covered elsewhere on this site. The climb from the plains through Adimali is a known quantity, the vehicle is sized for it, and our Muvattupuzha and Chalakudy pages deal with the mechanics of loading for a ghat road properly. What is specific to Munnar is not getting here. It is what the climate does to your belongings once they arrive. On how the work gets done. Globe Relocation is based in Bangalore. In Munnar the crew is a vetted local partner team that we brief and stand behind, with the survey, the written quote, the coordination and the accountability sitting with us.

Moving Insights for Munnar

Do not let anything be packed on a wet morning if it can wait. This is the whole page in one sentence. Clothes, bedding, curtains, cushions, anything soft that has been hanging in a room with mist coming through an open window. Give it a dry day, or a day indoors with some warmth, and then pack it. A sealed carton is an excellent environment for mould and a poor one for drying. And let the cold things stand before you open them. Anything that has come up from the plains arrives at a different temperature to the room it is going into, and cold glass and metal in a warm room sweats. Televisions, computers, a fridge, an inverter. Several hours in the room before anybody switches it on or unwraps it. Nobody wants to wait and it is the difference between a working television and an expensive one. Measure the doors on the day, not from memory. Timber swells here and a frame that a wardrobe passed through in the dry months can be a genuinely tighter fit in the middle of the monsoon. It sounds like a small margin and it is exactly the margin that matters on a large piece of furniture. We check it at survey and we check it again if the survey was weeks earlier. Books and paper need more than wrapping, they need to be dry when they go in and unpacked reasonably soon at the other end. A box of books sealed slightly damp and left in a corner for a month is the single most reliable way to lose a library in this climate. If a room is not ready for them, tell us and we will keep them ventilated and labelled as priority rather than burying them at the back.