Students and teachers may be off on summer vacation, but schools are working hard to re-arrange classroom furniture and clean up in anticipation of a new academic year. Kernersville (NC) Elementary School provides a perfect example of what’s going on behind the scenes at schools across the nation this summer. In Kernersville, custodians work around the clock to rearrange and remove school furniture and other furnishings, clean up classrooms from floor to ceiling, and basically refurbish the entire school building as needed. If you’re going through the same process and feel like moving your furniture’s like moving a mountain, here’s some equipment you should think about utilizing:

• Dollies and Trucks: Unless you just hired Hercules or Houdini, those file cabinets, teacher desks, student desks, book cases and other heavy furniture aren’t moving themselves. Dollies and trucks provide a sturdy platform, wheels to roll your inventory from place to place, and a handle or rail by which to push or pull your furniture to your desired location.
• Book Carts: You can carry one book under your arm, but you can move a whole collection a whole lot more easily with a spacious and sturdy book cart. It has wheels and the shelves make it easy to keep your books in order as you move from space to space.
• Ladders and Step Stools: When you’re cleaning or reaching for a hard-to-access area, a ladder or step stool can provide a safe, stable platform that helps you extend your reach and ultimately finish what you set out to do. Many products feature rails for you to hold so you can steady yourself, and others feature locking mechanisms that keep you upright and steady in potentially precarious situations. Figure out the feature set and size you need and get the ladder or step stool that’s right for you.
• Stacking Chairs: It’s more like school furniture than school equipment, but the fact that it stacks saves you space and time as you move. So instead of carrying out regular chairs one-by-one, you can stack a set of stacking chairs and carry them all out at one time, or put them on a dolly or truck and roll them all out together.

If you’re making moves at school this summer, good luck and don’t forget to plan ahead and equip yourself to make next year as good as it can be.