Tips on How to Move a Refrigerator

One of the most important appliances in the modern kitchen is the refrigerator. But if you need to replace one it can be quite a challenge to move one. Most sellers will move it to your house for you, but if you bought it second hand from a garage sale there is a few things you should do to make sure that your refrigerator is in operating condition when it arrives.

The first thing you want to do when you are getting a new or used refrigerator is remove the old one. Make sure to take out as many things as you can so that they do not rock about inside it. Put a hand truck underneath the refrigerator and strap it to it. Make sure you have other people working with you because it can get a little hazardous. Now tip it onto the truck and carefully pull it to where it needs to go. Remember if you are taking it somewhere else you will need to strap it down securely in your truck or other vehicle.

To transport the new one, take the hand truck and tie the refrigerator to it like you did when you were taking the old refrigerator out. Make sure you do not tip the refrigerator on its side, because that can disrupt the gasses and everything else that the refrigerator needs to work which could break it. Now you will need to heft it into your truck as strait as possible. Remember not to lay it on its side. Push it against the back of your trucks box and secure it tightly with ropes and other straps. Be careful that you do not put the straps across anything fragile, such as the handle, because it could break it. If the straps do not go over the doors of the refrigerator, you will need to tape them shut.

Now that you're your refrigerator is secure in the back of your truck, you are going to want to drive slowly. Try your best not to make sudden stops, or turn violently because the refrigerator might move and become loose if you do, which means it could fall and break itself, your trucks window, or fall out of your car all together and cause an accident.

Now that you have your refrigerator home take it through the easiest way to your kitchen as possible. Remember the easiest path usually has the widest doors. Now that you have it installed wait between one or two hours, just in case some of the gasses inside did shift around. Then plug it in and put your food inside it.