How long do I get to move?

DVardysShadow

Slinky wrote: »

From what I've observed with DIY moves they can be nightmares. We watched a moving day from hell unfold opposite us a few years ago. The occupiers of a 4 bed house were doing it themselves. Hired a small box van, got that loaded up, then had to sit and wait to get the keys to the new place. Off they went to unload, obviously not going far. In the meantime the new folk turn up with a removals wagon expecting get in. Cut a long story short the new folk and their removals people ended up helping the old folks load up their box van several times, whilst unloading the new folk's stuff into the garage. Probably cost the new folk a fortune in waiting time for their removal wagon.

Unless you've only got a small house and can get most stuff onto a rented wagon, the idea of you trying to do a DIY move out on the same day others move in really isn't fair on your purchasers.

So actually, the DIYer's were doing it in several journeys.

Unless you negotiate before hand and get space to put stuff down at the other end, this is guaranteed to go wrong when it is tried with the normal 1 day chain move. And you are guaranteed to make yourself a PITA.

If you must do a one day move, everything needs to be out of the first property and 'on wheels' to allow the property to be given up vacant possession without actually needing to put stuff down at the other end. Perhaps as a DIY'er, if you cannot hire a full size removal van, you really need to hire the number of Lutons it takes to hold everything. This does swing the economics in favour of professionals.

Piffyonarockbun

This is scaring me!! I move on Friday. My buyers will not wait one more week for the purchase of my new flat to go through so I'm forced to move this week. I am going to have to put everything in a storage facility in the town I'm moving to and bunk in with my brother for the week, then do it all over again next week!! I'm sitting here in a stupor at the moment,wondering what to do next. Ive done loads of throwing things away and stuffing things into boxes. Im having to move completely on my own as my son and daughter- in - law are on holiday and come back late Friday .

I bought a moving pack of boxes online for a three bedroomed house from
House Moving Packing Kits | Pack-Shop.co.uk and it cost about £30 you get bubble wrap, different sizes of boxes, tissue paper, a marker pen. Good value and better than having to beg steal or borrow boxes. I can probably sell them on later too.

The man I've booked to move me is a local chap and is charging me £300 and bringing two lads along for the lifting, sounds to me like a bargain as its 75 or so miles away! I'm sure he will be kind to me (I have various disabilities and lots of pain to live with!).

Best wishes to anyone going through a move at the moment. Right, I've had a rest, now to gird up my loins and start on my glassware and crockery!!!

Rosie x

Piffyonarockbun

There’s always the possibility that he doesn’t WANT to be there…

That's exactly what I was thinking, why take the day off when someo9ne else can have all the hassle. Deffo contact the headmaster Mrs OP!!!

sundin13

Piffyonarockbun wrote: »

There’s always the possibility that he doesn’t WANT to be there…

That's exactly what I was thinking, why take the day off when someo9ne else can have all the hassle. Deffo contact the headmaster Mrs OP!!!

Well, erm....there's also the possibility that I'd actually rather he wasn't there, so I'm happy to go along with it.

Piffyonarockbun

Well, that's ok then! Good luck with the move.

andi2

Op - I worked in a school last time we moved (librarian) they had no problems with me having the day off to move (paid). Well worth your OH asking.

dacouch

Tenuous link... I'm moving a whole school in the school holidays

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

dacouch wrote: »

Tenuous link... I'm moving a whole school in the school holidays

Bet that takes a lot of bubble wrap.

no1catman

When it comes to the 'moving' day - everything should be ready for lift off in boxes, or furniture to be manhandled.
That means preparation before hand;
- buying less, to run down food stocks - especially in the freezer,
- being ruthless, with clothes etc, if it doesn't fit dispose,
- collect boxes, where you can - for everything from crockery to toiletries to clothes, and to packaged food - labelled!

I say, should, I remember being up till 12.30 the night before, the removal people were 40 mins late - I was still trying to catch my tropical fish. And the new people pestered us wanting to move in - let them start at 1.30. Arrived at new place about 2.30 !

lawnordersue

OK, to answer the LEGAL question you posed i.e. how long do we get to move. The Law Society guidelines USED to provide in the contract that legal completion had to take place BEFORE 2.30pm and that's usually altered to 12.30. This is because the banks used to be such a pain in the _)(U*_)(*(*(&^)^(*&%*&^ getting the money through the telegraphic transfer system. Speak to your solicitor. Find out what the Contract actually says and I agree with everyone who said 'don't move yourself'. We've done it twice. The last time was 20 years ago. Hubby knows if he wants to move house again, someone else is going to do all the packing. It was a NIGHTMARE! and I'm a pretty organised kind of gal. Good luck in your new home.