Comprehensive and professionally executed soft packaging is not always enough to secure art pieces in transit or long-term storage. Custom wooden crates are often needed for high-value, fragile, and extremely old art pieces to guarantee their immunity to human and environmental hazards during handling and transportation. In cases when moving such items to a local crating workshop is a source of risk on its own, art owners resort to onsite crating services. Here are the main benefits of inviting art craters to your premises and a glimpse of how this process occurs.

Benefits of Onsite Crating

The main advantage of onsite art crating is reduced handling and movement of fragile pieces. Every move comes with the risk of impact, vibration, or abrasion damage, and onsite packaging and crating services eliminate these dangers.

Second, custom crating at your place ensures the item’s customized protection throughout the entire trip. Art handlers take into account the object’s weight, composition materials, shape, and surface sensitivity when building a crate. Thus, your artwork will travel safely with end-to-end protection created with professional oversight.

Third, crated art enjoys immediate stabilization of internal temperature and humidity. Its onsite insulation guarantees that external fluctuations won’t damage it, and it will arrive in pristine condition.

Finally, you may consider the cost and efficiency factor when choosing onsite crating services in favor of delivering your art piece to a local crating workshop. If your art belongs to the category of high vulnerability, you will need to order specialized art shipping services for its safe delivery to/from the workshop, and the trip will still be a source of risk. Onsite packaging from start to finish is a great alternative that removes all transportation risks and gives you peace of mind throughout the process.

Let the Fine Art Shippers Team Crate Your Art Safely

If you’re conscious about the unprotected movement of your art belongings, the Fine Art Shippers team can arrive at your place to perform onsite crating. Our expert art handlers will plan a packing and crating strategy custom-tailored to the type, age, fragility, and conservation requirements of your artwork and will perform all work in line with safety standards and best crating practices. We mainly provide art crating services in New York and the Tri-State area, but we can handle this task in other parts of the country as well if booked and confirmed in advance. Contact our team today for details!