Houston Shipper Demonstrates How to Pack a Chandelier

With the holiday season approaching, families are sprucing up and updating their homes. Families are shipping heirloom chandeliers cross country. Businesses are placing chandeliers in their lobbies. Relative are shipping chandeliers as gifts.

As we receive phone calls about the best way to ship a chandelier, we have posted our video demonstrating chandelier packing on our website. While animal horn chandeliers need blocking and bracing crystal chandeliers demand a lot of attention to the small details. We have chosen to use a chandelier that has crystals, as these crystals usually need hand packing for shipping.

In our video, we demonstrate that when you pick up a chandelier to take it to your warehouse, you must hang it during transportation. That is correct, you hang it inside the truck.

For most chandeliers you will need to build a custom box or a custom crate for shipping purposes.

Some common chandelier types are as follows:

Sea Shell chandelier, Glass chandelier,Wrought Iron chandelier,Brass chandelier,Victorian chandelier,Beaded chandelier,Crystal chandelier,Animal Horn chandelier

As you can tell by the various types of chandeliers, each chandelier will need to be box or crated according to their size, value and composition. Chandeliers that travel via freight will still be hung inside the box or crate.

With the crystal chandelier in our video, you will notice that the individual crystals are wrapped separately. This is to keep the crystals from hitting each other during shipping.

Once the chandelier is hanging inside of the box or crate, and the crystals wrapped, Styrofoam peanuts are loaded in the crate or box. The peanuts will help prevent the chandelier from moving around during the shipping process.