How to pack floor standing speakers for shipping
One of the things I frequently see are people saying that they cannot ship their floor standing loudspeakers and must have local pickup. That shrinks your potential buyer pool to almost nothing. Your speakers sit for months and years, and when you do sell them, you get pennies on the dollar for what you paid for them.
I recently moved to Hawaii from the mainland and had to pack my custom made loudspeakers, which are fine furniture. Here's how I did it and you can too. You're going need the following materials found at Home Depot.
- furniture wrap. It looks like a giant roll of Saran Wrap.
- Bubble wrap. Get the kind with big bubbles.
- Packing popcorn
Next you're going to go to a place that sells packing cartons. Many long term storage companies will sell packing materials. Get wardrobe cartons. They are very thick and strong cardboard, and typically about 5 feet tall.
Step 1: Wrap your loudspeaker in the furniture wrap. Go around several times.
Step 2: Wrap your loudspeaker in at least a 2" layer of bubble wrap.
Step 3: Layer the bottom of your wardrobe carton with:
-> 1" layer bubble wrap
-> 1" layer packing popcorn
-> 1" layer bubble wrap
Put your wrapped loudspeaker in the carton and fill with packing popcorn. Fill above that with layers of packing popcorn and bubble wrap.
Assuming that your speaker is not 5 feet tall, using a box cutter, cut the top of the carton to fold over the loudspeaker and seal up.
If you've got a loudspeaker that is worth $4000 or more, than instead of getting only $500 for it like you eventually will, or worse, give it to your kid for his college dorm room, then it's well worth it to pack it up this way.
Agreed. However, many of us city dwellers do not have the space for storing the original boxes and must resort to more creative measures. (Stated by someone who has just purchased new speakers and is anxious about tossing the boxes.) |
@bigtwin Are you getting a set of the Roger West electrostatic loudspeakers? |
