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CHECKLIST

  • Confirm dates with us
  • Sign and return contract
  • Confirm insurance arrangements at declared value
  • Arrange a contact number
  • Dispose of anything you don’t want
  • Start running down freezer contents
  • Contact carpet fitters if needed
  • Book mains services for disconnections
  • Cancel all rental agreements
  • Notify doctor, dentist, optician, vet
  • Tell your bank and savings/share accounts
  • Inform telephone company
  • Ask Royal Mail to re-route your post
  • Tell TV licence, car registration, passport offices
  • Notify HP and credit firms
  • Re-register any ‘chipped’ pets
  • Make local map to new house for friends and removers
  • Clear the loft
  • Organise parking at new home
  • Plan where things go in new home
  • Cancel the milk/newspapers
  • Clean out the freezer
  • Arrange minders for children/pets
  • Find and label keys
  • Address cards to friends and relatives
  • Separate trinkets, jewellery and small items
  • Sort out linen and clothes
  • Put garage/garden tools together
  • Take down curtains/blinds
  • Collect children’s toys
  • Put together basic catering for family at new home
  • Prepare parking for removal vehicle

How these guides and information can help you:

We thought it would help our customers and those moving home greatly if we shared some tips and advice. This time in someone’s life can be very hectic, stressful, and tiring. Therefore, we created the above guides on a number of topics. As they cover such a wide range of moving issues, they should be helpful to many.

We have also included a checklist, which can be extremely useful when you are sorting everything to move home.  We know that it’s easy to forget small things, as we have been in the business for a number of years. Therefore, we wanted to provide our present and future customers with as many resources as possible to make their move a good one.