Parcel van recommendations

[Lowflyer]

Ok,

So I need to get a shower door up on a private deal from a guy in Cornwall. He's not in the trade and prefers me to arrange a courier , fair enough, but the prices I have been quoted are silly money.
He's ok with boxing it but I don't know what packaging couriers need for fragile objects.

Been looking for a while for a screen this size, the plonker that built the house made the aperture an odd ball size, don't know, ( I must have had a bad hair day )

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

 

[Lowflyer]

Ok,

So I need to get a shower door up on a private deal from a guy in Cornwall. He's not in the trade and prefers me to arrange a courier , fair enough, but the prices I have been quoted are silly money.
He's ok with boxing it but I don't know what packaging couriers need for fragile objects.

Been looking for a while for a screen this size, the plonker that built the house made the aperture an odd ball size, don't know, ( I must have had a bad hair day )

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Fek, what happened there ??? double bubble
Can some soooper person delete one of the above ?

 

[Lutin]

Duplicate post deleted.

Sorry, can't help you with the courier.

 

[Mervin]

have you tried interparcel ?

Shame my old job came to an end , used to go to Scrabster every week at one time ,

 

[Lowflyer]

have you tried interparcel ?

Shame my old job came to an end , used to go to Scrabster every week at one time ,

Tried them on line, they recommended a pallet, came in at over £100

 

[Mervin]

hmm well that sounds dear , i have heard that this is a good service http://www.shiply.com/miv2/

 

[lmg]

your not wrong - shiply would be my first port of call. BMW GSA 1200 collected from Dartford and delivered to Yorkshire - £74 including all insurances.

 

[Lowflyer]

Shiply were £122
I think I 'll maybe and try them again on line. i'm tempted to say it's not fragile and get the guy to parcel it well.

I was expecting about the sixty quid mark tops

 

[East Coast]

Wow, must be one hell of a shower door to organise having it collected!!

Anyway lol, on a practical note... I would suggest protecting the corners if it contains glass. The glass its self (if it is) will be far less fragile than you think! It should be BS safety standard which from memory is lamented, tempered and toughened. In fact you'll probably find you've got to go some to actually break it. Unless you know what you're doing...a pin point shock in the corner should do the trick, though you'd be very unlucky to have this happen in transit unless the courier is an arsehole lol.

Good luck!

EC

Ps I'm actually not sure about it being laminated but either way its still pretty robust.

 

[East Coast]

Oh and another ps, I've always been tempted to send stuff like this unpackaged ...with only an address lable...the logic and psychology being that if a monkey who can't read the word fragile has to handle it....the you'd at least hope they'd take a bit of care if they can actually see what it is and that it 'really' is fragile!?!! (though I have noticed one signature stating that human stupidity is possibly infinite so who knows lol )

 

[Whealie]

To be fair you tight git it's got to be £100 in fuel.

 

[Philwhiskeydrinker]

I've used RMD Couriers who seem pretty good, would it help reduce price if you said there was no urgency so they could tie it in with a return load?
For wrapping, bubble wrap then covered in a layer or 2 of stiff cardboard?

To be fair, Cornwall to Inverness is quite a way, taking in fuel/time etc it's maybe not far off the mark.

Alternatively, alter the opening larger/smaller to make it a standard size

Or as Chris says, don't be so f'n tight

 

[Paul-S]

Would it have been easier to buy one locally and have it trimmed by a glaziers?

 

[East Coast]

Would it have been easier to buy one locally and have it trimmed by a glaziers?

Nice thinking but sadly toughened glass can't be cut As far as I'm aware all glass is cut before it goes though the toughening process.

 

[Lowflyer]

All good,

Thanks very much for the replies guys.
In the end, bunged the seller additional cash to provide a cardboard frame and additional packaging at the weak points, frame etc, so should be ok.
TNT charged £25 so a happy bunny, will be here on Thursday.

Can't believe the differences in prices, someone somewhere is taking a huge wedge.
Oh well, my cock up will be rectified at long last. Phil, your idea of altering the aperture would have cost me mega grief with the strange one, spent a fortune on tiling it when I built the house.
The only other pfoopah I made was I forgot to put in a side door in the garage ( my excuse is I had several other building projects on at the same time and they were making me money ) a bit like the mechanic's car I guess
Still, the shower door is an easy fix.

Thanks again guys