
Tips
Here are some handy tips to ensure your move is as successful as possible:
- Notify your milkman and newspaper shop in advance that you will be moving house.
- If you are renting your property, notify your landlord in advance of your moving date, and give the relevant notice on your existing property.
- Pack up your belongings in stages, starting weeks before your moving date.
- Notify the relevant utility companies in advance and provide them with a firm date of when you are leaving the property to avoid any unnecessary charges.
- Arrange a time to collect the keys to your new property from the estate agent.
- Purchase packaging boxes, paper, tape, and bubble wrap well in advance before you move. See Packaging
- Clearly mark all boxes displaying their destination room, contents, and any fragile items.
- Dispose of any rubbish a few days in advance.
- Decide what you want to take with you and what is to be left behind.
- Sort out possessions you no longer need and arrange for them to be recycled, donated or thrown away.
- Try and clean as much of the property as possible before your actual moving day.
- Notify banks, schools, family, and friends of your new address.
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