Moving Boxes in Fresno, The Right Sizes, Ready When You Are

What to Expect When You Shop for Moving Boxes Locally

Fresno folks do it the same way every time. Drive to a home store or browse a couple of classifieds and what you get is a lot of cardboard boxes in varying sizes, lots of tape, and an ever-increasing bill.

We always hear, “I had no idea I’d use that many boxes”. It’s easy to use 30–40 boxes to pack one bedroom apartment. A 3 bedroom home in the Fig Garden area uses 80 or more. The cardboard stacks up quickly, it takes a lot of time to fold and tape each box and most of the boxes are broken or crushed before you even put a thing in the truck.

This is what searching for moving boxes in Fresno usually entails:

• Making trips to several stores to get a variety of sizes.
• Searching for “free” boxes behind the grocery store that smell like fruit and produce.
• Dedicate the better part of an hour to assembling boxes and putting on tape before you even put anything inside.
• A huge pile of cardboard to sort through after the move in process.

There is an option most Fresno residents are unaware of. Moving boxes can be delivered right to your door. They don’t have to be assembled or taped. The boxes are strong plastic moving bins, can be stacked and protect your items more securely than cardboard. When you are all done unpacking, our movers will pick them up again. That’s the entire process.

We are EZPak Bins, a local, family-owned moving box rental business run by Matt and Elisa Brown, based right here in the Central Valley. We offer free delivery within 40 miles of the Fresno area and no deposit is required to book. Our free rental period includes one additional week for every rental to give you a longer time period.

, someone that calls us is either just moving to this area of Fresno or moving to a different place in Fresno, such as to Tower District or to northwest Fresno. Searching for moving boxes, they find cardboard boxes, but actually find our product that helps make moving less stressful. We get these conversations at least weekly.

Don’t know how many boxes you might need or which size you might want? Call us at (559) 470-7904, we will guide you through the process in 2 minutes.

How Fresno’s Heat Can Affect Your Boxes Before You Start Packing

We get this question every June – September. Someone goes to pick up cardboard boxes from a store or someone’s garage and when they bring the boxes home they are soft. The cardboard is misshapen, the box edges are distorted, and the flaps won’t work right. Fresno’s heat takes its toll even before any dishes are loaded into a box.

Cardboard soaks in moisture from the air.

And in Fresno, humidity is not as high in the summer, but once temperatures climb to 105, or even 110 degrees, the game changes. Heat will cause the layers of corrugation inside of cardboard to break down, causing the adhesive holding those layers together to soften. And, suddenly, a moving box that might seem to feel perfectly solid at the store can start to feel flimsy after a couple of days spent sitting in your Tower District apartment or your garage just south of Bullard and West. Here are just a few things that we witness cardboard boxes doing when exposed to the heat: Bottoms begin to sag or buckle, even in the presence of items which would not have been heavy at all during other times of the year; adhesive becomes gummy, which means that tape will peel or become loose on the tops of boxes; stacked boxes tend to crush or squish any items within them; boxes, or a series of boxes, that have just been sitting in a moving truck for a few hours can become completely misshapen and unusable. This is all true no matter what time of day it is. We have heard from a client that they lost an entire box’s worth of kitchen items after the bottoms gave out before they even got the box into the moving truck, which is not an anomaly; cardboard has failed in an environment for which it was not built. And that is why you do not face these issues when using plastic moving boxes. Our moving bins are made from heavy-duty plastics which do not react to being left in 112 degree temperatures. No layers can peel away. No glue softens in the heat. Our boxes stack, and do so cleanly, regardless of whether they are being filled and stacked early in the morning or later at 4pm after the pavement near the hot Fresno sun has reflected heat back onto the boxes. And this matters more than most people realize because you might never even notice your boxes getting crushed in a moving truck or sitting in a garage. Boxes that have been sitting under direct sun or in the heat of an unventilated moving van for a time can fail and leave you in the lurch; but when it comes to plastic moving boxes from EZPak Bins, they will hold up throughout every single stage of the moving process, from the moment you leave your front door to the moment you enter your new place in Clovis or wherever else your move is taking you.

How to choose the best moving box sizes for your move

Here is one thing that we tell every customer that we serve in Fresno: not every room requires the same type of boxes. Your kitchen has heavy plates and glass. Your bedroom has bulky comforters. And your office has odd-shaped electronics. We see this every day when customers arrive with the idea that they will fill everything with large boxes, but then they run into the problem of over filling a single box and not being able to move or lift it. The solution to this problem is simple: use the correct size moving box for the items that are going inside the moving box. Our reusable moving bins are available in a full range of sizes, and we recommend using them as follows: Small Boxes for heavy objects like books, canned foods, tools, and small appliances;

• Medium boxes are the go-to for the bulk of your household items: cookware, toys, footwear, toiletries, and the like. Basically, this is your standard workhorse bin.
• Large boxes are ideal for light, voluminous items like pillows, bedding, lampshades, and plush toys.
• Wardrobe boxes have a built-in rod so you can transport your clothes straight from the closet to the truck. No folding, no creases, and no pressing needed once you arrive at your new place.

The reality is that most residential moves in Fresno involve using a combination of all four types. A two-bedroom apartment near Tower District might use mostly medium moving bins with a handful of small ones for the kitchen. By contrast, a four-bedroom in Woodward Park will likely need a more extensive supply, including several wardrobe boxes.

Not sure what mix of boxes and bins you’ll need? That’s a common question. When you reserve from EZPak Bins, we can help you determine how many you’ll need and of which sizes. We handle that determination every day, across the city. what you’ll need for a move of your size. No trying to estimate. No going back to the hardware store at 9 PM to ask if there are any more cardboard boxes left.

Plus, since our plastic moving boxes nest one on top of the other, getting the right amount and types of boxes also helps you fit a tighter, more stable stack in your truck. Less shifting. Less damage. Much less hassle on your moving day.

How Many Moving Boxes You’ll Need for Your Fresno Home

One of the questions we’re asked almost daily is, “How many moving bins and boxes will I need?” And in our experience, many people don’t guess the number correctly.

Some get too few moving bins and end up halfway through the kitchen with no more places to stash things. Or, people order way too many and then spend a week tripping over empty moving bins around their home after everything is packed. We’ve delivered reusable moving boxes to apartments adjacent to Fresno State as well as to five-bedroom houses in Fig Garden. We’ve a pretty good idea of the quantity that works best.

Here’s how many we’ve generally seen you’ll need for a typical move from across Fresno:

• Studio or 1-bedroom apartment: 15 to 25 moving bins. Sufficient for a whole kitchen, a wardrobe, and a bathroom.
• 2-bedroom home: 25 to 40 moving boxes. Having two bedrooms means twice the clothing, linens, and miscellaneous items.
• 3-bedroom home: 40 to 60 moving boxes. This is our highest volume order. Families living in these types of residences usually need some wardrobe boxes, too.
• 4+-bedroom home: 60 to 80 moving bins or more. Garage storage, guest rooms, home office. Things add up quickly.

Of course, these figures assume an average level of belongings. Those who have collections or have stored their garage will need 10 or 15 more bins to complete the move; those who think they don’t actually have that much stuff often end up needing to call us for additional bins.

Thankfully, if you rent plastic moving bins and boxes from EZPak Bins, there’s absolutely no need for you to estimate the amount of bins needed.

No problem. Need a few more? We’ll bring them out. Have some you didn’t need? No issue. That’s the kind of flexibility you need when you’re packing up a home in Clovis on a Saturday afternoon, only to find that one room’s worth of kid’s toys already fills a dozen boxes.

Not sure which type of box will work best for your move? Call us at (559) 470-7904. We’ll help you work through it over the phone in around two minutes.

Why Free Boxes So Often Fail Fresno Movers

We get it. “Free” sounds like a dream deal. You notice a bunch sitting behind a Fresno grocery store on Blackstone or ask a friend in Tower District for a few from their last delivery, and it feels like you’re saving yourself some serious bucks. But we see this situation play out week after week: those free boxes wind up costing you much more than buying the proper moving boxes in the first place.

The main problem has to do with construction. Every used cardboard box has already made at least one journey, meaning its fluting is compressed, its corners dented. Try stacking three of those on top of each other in a Fresno summer, and the bottom box buckles. Your wine glasses will be in pieces on the garage floor.

But it’s more than just the load bearing capacity. Cardboard is susceptible to moisture. Even in our dry valley heat, cardboard that’s been left out after an errand picks up enough moisture from the air to weaken. The EPA cites data showing that corrugated cardboard loses nearly 40% of its stacking strength when damp. That’s a statistic that could easily result in a lot of property damage when it comes to your stuff. If you’re also thinking about what to do with all that cardboard after your move, Yale’s guide on how to move out sustainably offers practical advice on reducing waste and recycling packing materials responsibly.

What Often Goes Wrong with Free Moving Boxes

• Box sizes that don’t fit each other or stack evenly in a Fresno moving truck, wasting space and causing the boxes to shift around as you’re driving
• No lids, or loose flaps, meaning you’re going to have to find boxes of tape to seal up the tops
• Gunk or pests that you can’t always see in previously used boxes
• Boxes that start collapsing mid move, especially during summer heat in enclosed spaces like garages, closets, or storage units in and around Clovis, Sanger, or the other cities we serve in the Fresno Valley

When you rent reusable moving boxes, you’re not subject to those types of issues. Our moving crates come in standardized sizes; they fit one another evenly and easily when stacked; they don’t sweat or swell when it gets warm. There are no box flaps you have to secure with tape. There is no assembly. Just lift the attached lid and start filling up the box.

Think about it. You’re already investing hard-earned money on a rental truck or hiring movers. Why are you going to risk the health of your belongings to a used cardboard box that was tossed away by someone else? People who’ve called us with their emergency moving supplies have told us they started their move with free cardboard boxes, then ran out, or found one of the free boxes collapse during loading or unloading. That’s a call nobody is happy to receive.

Rent moving boxes to get through your relocation without having to scrounge up an assortment of random cardboard boxes from five or six stores scattered all over Fresno. One delivery. One standard size. No need for guesswork.

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