Do's and don'ts for moving day

NervousHomeowner

Pack a bag with things you will need immediately and leave it in your car ready for moving day. Not necessarily big things, but all the little things that are so easily mislaid/packed away but are actually quite important e.g. a hang towel, hand soap, toilet roll, curtains, duvet cover & pillow cases, screwdriver, kitchen roll, paper & a pen.

If your bed needs alan keys/knuts/screws etc. put them in a bag and either tie them to the bed once it's dismantled or put them in the glove compartment of your car. They're so easily lost!

Set up your bed first before you unpack anything else & put duvet covers on etc. Then when you're ready for bed you won't still have to put the bed together or go hunting for your bed linen.

Other than that, a suitcase is quite useful. The night before, pack the little things you'll need into the suitcase, like you're going away on holiday. Things like a few items of clothing, a few pairs of underwear, socks, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes & toothpaste etc. Any important papers you might need too (Like proof of identity, proof of ownership, important phone numbers). Just enough stuff to keep you going for a few days, should you either not want to unpack immediately or your stuff doesn't arrive!

ReadingTim

Have a sort out of stuff/junk before you move out of the old place, rather than after you've moved into the new one

Run down (ie eat) food in tins, jars, bottles etc as well as the contents of the fridge and freezer

BobQ

Do not pack anything you plan to hand over to the new occupant of your house (eg instructions for central heating, key to windows). Particularly when you are moving a hundred miles away.

Werdnal

tim123456789 wrote: »

Really!


Still haven't read the gas meter (don't have on of their magic keys and the trick of opening it with a pair or pliers didn't work).

Do you mean the key for the meter cupboard, with the square or triangular head on them? You can get these on eBay for a couple of quid!



OP - going back to your original question, keep a box of cleaning materials handy too. Nothing like turning up to your new home desperate for the loo, and not being too impressed with the way the vendors left it! I was behind someone in supermarket queue who had a trolley full of cleaning materials, mop, bucket, cloths, bleach etc, and the cashier said "Someone must be spring cleaning". "No, they replied, just got keys to our new house and its filthy!"

Strapped

As above, pack a suitcase with "overnight things" and a change of clothes for the following day. If all goes smoothly, you'll be able to find the things you need immediately. If there is any hitch (with the money going through or whatever) then you have what you need to stay somewhere overnight.

Box with kettle, mugs, tea bags, UHT milk etc essential.

We found feeding the removal men tea and bacon sarnies when they arrived put them in an agreeable frame of mind

gravitytolls

ReadingTim wrote: »

Have a sort out of stuff/junk before you move out of the old place, rather than after you've moved into the new one

Run down (ie eat) food in tins, jars, bottles etc as well as the contents of the fridge and freezer

Good advice. We moved 6 years ago and we still find the odd thing in the shed that I question why we didn't tip it before we moved.

tim123456789

Heffi1 wrote: »

You will be paying for the previous occupants gas/electric then, are you happy about that, you have no way to prove you have not used it/they used it

Do you?

But if the outgoing occupants haven't arranged for a meter reading when they moved out, they will be getting my bill.

So they must have done this. (I have actually checked that they did)

And if they supplied a disproportionately wrong self reading when they left, I'm sure that I can challenge this.

tim123456789

Werdnal wrote: »

Do you mean the key for the meter cupboard, with the square or triangular head on them? You can get these on eBay for a couple of quid!

I do, yes

I found one online for 66p, but I can't be bothered to make an internet purchase for such a trivial sum - it causes my card company to think that it is a suspicious purchase and block my card .

I went to the local (by which I mean in the next street) plumbing supplier but they wanted 3 pounds 50 :shocked:. (No doubt if I was "trade" I'd get 50% discount - but they decided that they'd rather lose a sale than offer discount to a pleb).

The hardware shop in the town sell them for a quid something, but they were out of stock so I have to wait until they have some more in.

I live in a small town, so that's it.

sinbad182

You must value your time incredibly cheaply to spend time going to different shops over £2.50.

Dan-Dan

tim123456789 wrote: »

I do, yes

I found one online for 66p, but I can't be bothered to make an internet purchase for such a trivial sum - it causes my card company to think that it is a suspicious purchase and block my card .

I went to the local (by which I mean in the next street) plumbing supplier but they wanted 3 pounds 50 :shocked:. (No doubt if I was "trade" I'd get 50% discount - but they decided that they'd rather lose a sale than offer discount to a pleb).

The hardware shop in the town sell them for a quid something, but they were out of stock so I have to wait until they have some more in.

I live in a small town, so that's it.

Hmmm , i wonder if youll be so blase about it when your arguing with a faceless opeartive at the energy company in a few weeks time