Do's and don'ts for moving day

GwylimT

The things that I do, if you have a free standing fridge get it in asap, you don't want to be putting some milk in and then waiting for it to cool down.

If you have a traditional boiler with a hot water tank check to see if its turned on, you'll need hot water to scrub the house, but unless you have an electric shower you'll need it for that before bed (you'll be a right sweaty pig) and in the morning.

Put your curtains/blinds up, you don't want people seeing the tip that will be your house and its not very nice sleeping without curtains.

Keep all necessary papers/ID in a easy place, e.g. glovebox.

Does your furniture need assembling? If so ensure you have everything you need, e.g. instructions, screw driver etc in once place, or even in freezer bags tied to the particular item of furniture.

Check that all the lights work, otherwise you might find yourself crawling up the stairs in the pitch black.

Get the beds set up asap!

If you're not going to be cooking and your moving to an new area, before you go get on the internet and find local takeaways that deliver.

Have your phone chargers handy, people wont be able to contact you via the house phone for a while.

Scrubs, in your over night bag pack some old clothes you don't mind ruining so you can wear those to clean the house. Pack the kind of stuff you would pack for a holiday, but add a loo roll and hand wash for the bathroom.

Clothes, buy the proper moving boxes that have a clothes rail, you don't want to spend the first few weeks ironing absolutely every piece of clothing you own, also means you don't have to find anywhere else to put your clothes hangers, you can also put your shoes at the bottom of the boxes.

Leave important things out for your buyer, instructions to boiler etc, window keys, location of stop !!!!, a loo roll, if you have some mugs you don't want leave a couple along with some tea bags, milk (if built in fridge) or uht milk and some biscuits. Confirm that you have read all meters and tell new occupants where they are. We all scrub our house from top to bottom when we move, if there are any cleaning products you aren't taking leave them under the sink and leave a note to say its there.

tim123456789

sinbad182 wrote: »

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

I don't get this maths.

I wasted 5 minutes going to the shop in the next street.

I spent an additional 30 seconds in the hardware store that I was in anyway, asking about the key

I will "waste" another 2 minutes going in the store again on another occasion I am in town (at least twice a week as everything else that I have to do is there)

So 7.5 minutes work save me 2.50 = 20 pounds per hour

(and that's the generous, to you, calculation. The actual calculation of the value saved by the effort should ignore the original 5 minutes as that was time already lost)

tim

tim123456789

Dan-Dan wrote: »

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

Yeah.

But I think it 100,000 to 1 that I will have to have this conversation.

It relies upon the outgoing owner being "dishonest", which I don't believe is likely.

tim

J_i_m

Tim,

I'm not sure if you're trolling or actually just rather simple.

It is simply good sense to take the utility readings before using any of the gas, electric or water.

This is so you have correct readings from which your use of the utility starts that you'll have to pay for.

To neglect this is to leave a lot to chance. The vendors may have taken the readings...but when? have they given them to you or the utility suppliers?

What happens if there is an discrepancy? As the current occupiers the utility suppliers are likely to come after you for any arrears. And a couple of quid on a key to enable you to take a reading will seem pretty small fish if you end up having to foot a large bill for something you may have not used but can't prove because you were daft enough to think it didn't matter.

The vendor's actions may well have been completely honest, but yours by choosing to neglect this simple precaution could be viewed as dishonest, as waiting a couple of weeks or more to take the readings and then submitting to the suppliers may look like you're trying to have free use of the utilities.

Dan-Dan

tim123456789 wrote: »

Yeah.

But I think it 100,000 to 1 that I will have to have this conversation.

It relies upon the outgoing owner being "dishonest", which I don't believe is likely.

tim

You are a strange one Tim

room512

Tim - if you ring your energy supplier they'll post you a key for free!

tim123456789

Dan-Dan wrote: »

You are a strange one Tim

what,

because (on some evidence) I've made an assessment that the person moving out of my new property is honest.

Why would I want to start from any other position?

tim

tim123456789

J_i_m wrote: »

Tim,

I'm not sure if you're trolling or actually just rather simple.

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No, I'm not trolling. I just think that you are misunderstanding my position.

I'm not saying that you don't do it if it is easily practical.

I'm saying that you don't sweat over it if it isn't.

It's simple. You move in. You unpack your stuff (all your stuff, not just an overnight bag). You phone the leccy board, tell them you have moved in and ask them to read the meter.

You don't need to run around and do this on day one. Nothing bad's going to happen if you don't.

tim

tim123456789

room512 wrote: »

Tim - if you ring your energy supplier they'll post you a key for free!

Is that right?

I understood that you got the "oh no you can't do that, that's gas board property, only qualified staff can open that box" reply.

Which is what I got when I enquired from the MA about getting a key to the leccy cupboard so that I could read that meter.

tim

room512

When we moved in we didn't have a key so I rang and asked them for a key - how can you provide meter readings if you don't have a key? We had one posted to us.

This is what British Gas say