Removals want all day on completion day

ikeby

thanks for all the replies. I have tried and tried to get removals for this week with no luck. I will get boxes dropped in advance and start packing up with help of friends to save time. My back won't survive but that's my worry, not my buyers. This is so stressful. At least i am not buying another place (just yet)

DaftyDuck

Ikeby,

Some thoughts for you. Sorry I'm always pointing out the worst

Packing boxes is murder, even with a healthy back. Try and work out where you can pack boxes at waist height (dining room table? - protect with a blanket!) and avoid bending as much as possible. See if you can use smaller boxes to make your lifting easier (book-boxes would be what the removal men would call them... just don't fill them with books or they'll weigh a tonne). Work out what you can pack earliest - what's completely unneeded - and start there. Label all boxes on the tape, on at least two sides to help label be visible. Put different coloured tape on boxes with stuff that needs early unpacking. Dig out the bathroom scales. Fill a box with stuff to a comfortable weight. NOTE IT and do not try carting twice the weight later, when things get rushed. Start really early - long before you think you need to ... you will get tired, even if the back holds out. Have several friends to help, preferably with a couple "spare" on call later in the day when the panic sets in...

Oh, and I know I'm always the bearer of bad news, but your bad back is going to have to UNPACK all these darn boxes at the other end... you may well want to take your time. Make sure those essentials (and the bedding and toothbrush) are easily available. Basic essentials always go in my car!

Good luck!

ikeby

Omg, not even thought of having to clean the place after removal men have left. I am not normally so scatty, that's stress for you. Just waiting on phone call from removals about boxes and getting extra men on job. Thanks everyone.

antenna

All the packed items will be going into storage,so why dont you have the removals done day or so earlier,you must be going to stay somewhere after completion day so if this is not available on the original removal day then stay a day in a bed and breakfast or hotel so the removals can be done anytime.

topbargainhunter

How big is your property, and how much small stuff do you have to pack? We moved out of our flat a few years ago and the packers had gone through the place in a couple of hours. I didn't pack a single thing, and we had quite a lot of "stuff" packed into the flat.

redskyatnight_2

What a nightmare, but I can't give you any more different advice than you have been given.

Must say though, that we bought a house once, and were out of ours at 11.30am, as the deadline IS midday, and the people in the property we were buying didn't finish until FIVE PM. To say I was p1ssed off to the extreme, is an overstatement. I was fuming; and the place was a sh1thole when we got in there too!

If I had to be out by midday again (as you do,) then I would find a removal firm who can stagger the move and do half of it on the previous day.

phoebe1989seb

I'm sure we've previously had deadlines later (and earlier) than midday - doesn't it depend on what time completion actually happens? In fact friends had to have everything out of the buy-to-let they were selling by just after 9am as completion had taken place first thing.

Last-but-one move we were selling a fairly large house and our removal company were there for three days prior to completion day - and they weren't packing, we'd already done that ourselves.....they were merely loading the lorries

When we and the removal lorries got to our new address (early afternoon) completion still hadn't occurred even though our vendors had already moved out. I think it was 3.30pm when we got the call to say it had gone through. OTOH, our buyers didn't move in till the following day even though we'd been gone by noon.......

lawriejones1

Your removals company are being unrealistic and unreasonable. I own and manage a removals firm and, unfortunately, the only way to deal with this problem is to throw money at it.

We've started jobs at 6 in the morning - it's not unreasonable in the summer and a weekend job should attract a modest premiuim (say 10 - 20% on normal jobs). Even a large 4 bedroom house can be done relatively quickly by professionals if things are well packed, boxed and the access is easy. I certainly would expect them to be done by 12pm.

I'd agree with the others that says just pay your money and get it all packed up a day in advance, get the van loaded up and get some professional cleaners in there on the morning of the move (when the boxes and furniture are out).

If I had a medical condition I would 'outsource' the problem as much as I could...!

tim123456789

Dunno about where you live, but in my neck of the woods finding a removals firm free to do domestic work on a weekend is next to impossible

They are booked up weeks in advanced to do business moves (who, for obvious reasons, are prepared to pay well over the odds for such a move)

From_St_Neots

ikeby wrote: »

I won't hijack similar thread but am quite panicked and would appreciate some advice.

My removal firm is saying it will take all day to pack and remove goods to storage
i am panicked because i thought completion happens at 12 noon. My buyer would have their own removals to unload. Help please! How can I manage this? The have to do packing as I am on my own and suffer bad back.

Thanks and here is a bit more background info:

Finally it looks like exchange is going to happen this week for completion next Monday. I have held off booking removals because the exchange has been off and on over the past month due to problems with buyers buyer. but we have still not exchanged! May 31st was mooted but when i couldn't get a removal firm for this week being half term and end of month, my buyer threatened to walk away, they finally agreed next Monday.

If Completion not already set, request that it is Tuesday so that your removal guys can have all of Monday to pack to storage.