One of the greatest advantages to hiring professional movers over asking your friends for help is the assurance that your furniture will make it through the move with minimal damage. Moving companies train their employees to properly handle furniture so that it is in the same quality condition from the beginning of the move to the end. Professional movers are also physically prepared for heavy lifting, whereas your friends are more likely to injure themselves. Movers are educated and practiced in the correct way to lift and move heavy objects so that they will not be injured on the job. Not only should you be concerned for the safety of your friends, but let’s say your friend is carrying your grandmother’s rocking chair and he misses a step and takes a spill. Grandmother’s priceless rocking chair is going down with him and it may not be salvageable. When you are dealing with professional movers you know they are going to be careful and they have a safe and effective routine. Another advantage to hiring professional movers is that many times they have the proper equipment for the move. Depending on which moving company you decide to go with they will have different tools, but movers can provide things from blankets and dollies all the way to the rental truck. You may be charged extra for the movers to bring certain equipment, but these are things you will need anyway so it is really a matter of renting them from the movers, the truck company or buying them from the store.