Packing Crockery

Packing crockery is fairly risk free once you know what you are doing. Setting up your carton properly is half the job done, so once you've done that you're ready to wrap everything up and fill it.

Plates:

As you all know plates come in all different shapes and sizes.

But when you know whats involved in packing crockery properly, this won't worry you at all. From dinner plates to side plates, soup bowls to saucers they can all be packed in the same manner.

This is how we do it.

Place one plate on top of your stack of plain newsprint or butchers paper, near the middle.

Fold a sheet of paper from the corner nearest you, over the top of the plate, making sure that the plate is fully covered.

Place the second plate on top of this.

Fold the next piece of paper over the top and repeat until no more than six plates have been covered.

Now wrap the paper from the two adjoining corners over the bundle and fold the whole bundle away from you so that the bundle is now upside down.

Bring the bundle back near the middle of the stack of paper again and then using two or three sheets of paper, re wrap the entire bundle using the same procedure as before. That is, start from the corner nearest you then the two adjoining corners and then fold away from you.

Now you can place the bundle of plates into your prepared carton on their edge

Never lay plates flat in a carton as their strongest point is their edge.

Remember also to stack your heaviest plates on the bottom of the carton and the smaller, lighter ones towards the top.

Cups:

The next step in packing crockery are the cups and mugs. Just like plates, cups come in all shapes and sizes, but they can still be wrapped either in bundles or singularly depending on where you want to place them in your carton.

Because they are generally light, they make excellent top load in your carton.

We will start the same way as with the plates.

Place one cup on your stack of paper with the handle facing away from you.

Fold paper from the corner closest to you over the top of the cup, making sure it is fully covered.

Place a second cup inside, and the same way as the first cup, making sure that enough paper separates them from directly touching.

Fold over the two adjoining corners and wrap into a bundle, and then wrap the whole bundle again using one or two sheets of paper, rolling the bundle away from you.

Place in the carton, and stack with the drinking edge down.

If you only need to wrap one cup, do it the same as above by wrapping it and then wrapping it again, but still stack it in the carton with the drinking edge down.

Try not to pack two cups together if they have a great size difference. But if you have no alternative, wrap the smaller one first and then nest the bigger one into it and wrap into a bundle. This way, when you stack the bundle into the carton the bigger cup will be on the bottom.

Other Crockery Items:

There are so many different types of crockery items in a house that it would be nearly impossible to show you how to pack each one individually here.

But if you use what we have told you here as a guide you will have no troubles with any thing else.

Always remember the following things when you are packing crockery.