Conveyancing- Preparing to move house

UK (SANEPR.com) April 30, 2008 -- Four weeks till move day. Once you have your moving date you can notify your landlord if necessary.

Contact your telephone company and arrange for the reconnection or installation of your new line.

Inform the gas and electrical companies when you will be in the new property.

Get all the packaging equipment you will need (boxes, labels, tape, bin liners and newspapers).

Arrange for enough time of work to move and get settled.

Start getting rid of any junk or clutter that doesn't need moving, be ruthless! Two weeks till move day. You should have all of your domestic services under way for transfer by now and have all those lovely empty boxes piled up the hallways ready to fill. Now comes the fun stuff.

Get your removal plan into action and hire the removals guys.

Arrange transit insurance if you can as it is very likely that somthing will get broken,scratched or damaged in some way.

Inform appropriate people of your Change of Address.

Get down to the Post Office and setup the mail redirect for the date of move.

Make sure you have someone ready to look after any kids or pets they generally want to help but are more likely to slow things down.

Notify your local authority of the move to your new address.

Draw a rough floor plan of your new home and work out which rooms will be used for what this makes things much easier at the other end when distributing your boxes round the house.

Start packing and look at your floor plan, upon finishing label each box for its destination or room. One day to go Almost time to say goodbye to the old and in with the new except for a few extra pointers.

Get the basics you kept out for survival all packed away but put them to the front of the que of boxes as they will also be just as useful at the new house.

Once the last bits are packed get the rest of the house clean.

You can also empty and defrost the freezer. Move day! The big day is here and everything has hopefully gone to plan. Now you can finish all final checks such as:

Disconnect all remaining appliances.

Do a quick sweep through the house to make sure nothing has been overlooked.

Close and lock all windows.

Get all of your essentials over to the new house before the rest of the house gets moved in and then away you go.

Please remember keep calm and enjoy the day as it should be a positive move, and getting worked up about things like the removals men being five minutes late will only annoy you not them.


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