Custom Crating Services
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Custom Crating Services
Our custom-designed, high-quality wood crates will protect your valuable freight during shipment. Proper crating provides the customization necessary to tailor the crate to your item's dimensions, fragility, and weight. This ensures a perfect fit and maximum protection during transit. We go the extra mile to cushion, pad, and secure your items within the crate, minimizing the risk of damage from impacts, vibrations, and other external factors.
Little V Specialty Services provides professional crating services for shipping all types of fragile and valuable items like furniture, art, antiques, motorcycles, commercial equipment, electronics and more. We take exact measurements when we come for our initial survey and then build your choice of slat or solid crates. Our crates meet or exceed the most stringent industry requirements for moving locally, nationally, or internationally.
All our crates are labeled with arrows and stickers indicating how they should be shipped. We also apply photo labels of your artwork, mirrors, or table tops, to aid you and your design team on the destination side of your move. Our crates are additionally labeled with ShockWatch devices which indicate if an item has had possible damaging treatment during the shipping process. Our ShockWatches are all serialized and we take photos to record each device and its specified item for your protection. Certain more delicate items, like televisions, statuary, and irregularly shaped art or table tops, are additionally labeled with Tip-N-Tell devices to indicate if they have been shipped in a direction other than required for safe transport.
We ensure every caution is taken so that once an item leaves our hands, we know we have done our best to protect you and your items. The application of these devices helps remind move crews and shippers of their role in the safe delivery of your items.
Unlike many other craters, we come to your location for everything. We can crate at your home, warehouse, or storage facility as needed so you never have to worry about transport. We will measure and photograph during our first visit, and provide you with an estimate of costs. Upon acceptance of our estimate, we will build your crates at our warehouse and make your custom photo labels. We will make a follow-up appointment to bring your pre-built crates to your location and place the items in the crating at your convenience.
Slat crates are built with kiln dried lumber, lined with sturdy cardboard and have foam padding customized to your item.
Solid crates are built with 3/4" plywood and 1/2" OSB with appropriate lumber bracing, and padding.
International crates are not allowed by law to utilize standard lumber. All bracing is done using 3/4" plywood strips or specialty wood to meet international standards.