Move your selfs or Professional removals Company

TBeckett100

we had a wonderful moving experience

When we last moved, we did it ourselves. Took three weekends in a box van to move to self storage and then two weekends to move into the new house. It was awful and we didnt have a lot of stuff.

As we moved from a 3 to 4 bed, we just paid to have them dismatle and erect the beds and pack everything up.

They tuened up the day before at 8am and went at 3 with everything. We told them to wait for our call the next day where they promptly turned up to the new house. If I did it myself, every wall, door etc would be chipped and my wife would have divorced me. These guys breezed up the stairs and by 5pm everything was in and erected.

Slinky

pinkteapot wrote: »

If you DIY it, just be realistic, for the sake of your buyers.

House before last, we completed at 11am. We couldn't get they keys or get in until 5pm because the vendors thought they could self-move out of a 4-bed house using a transit and it took them all day. :mad:

We watched exactly the same thing happen about 15 years ago with a house opposite the one we were living in. I felt so sorry for the people moving in. In the end the new people's removals company were emptying their stuff into the garage and helping load up the old people's stuff into their totally inadequate box van. What they hadn't factored in was the time they would get the keys to their new home and that their buyers would be on the doorstep wanting to get in at about the same time.

There's times when it's worth doing moneysaving. Moving house without a packing service from a removals company unless you can get all your stuff in the back of a car, isn't one of them.

Slinky

charliewocka wrote: »

We've just moved from my rented house into our purchased house and to save money my OH insisted we do it ourselves. It's been a nightmare. Both working fulltime, including some international travel, two dogs and a cat, consolidating two houses into one. We've done so many trips in our estate cars, hired a Luton van with taillift and been so stressed with it all. Doesn't help my OH is currently disabled due to an injury and surgery. My sanity has gone and I've had tears about it all.

Sounds like your OH is still lucky to be your OH.

bouicca21

A couple of years ago, when the dodgy landlord had a repossession notice, I literally moved from one end of a street to the other. We used a hired transit. When I first moved into that street I had man and van and even so had to get the ex to help - all done in one trip.

Moving the same amount of stuff down the road was a nightmare. There were three of us. We had no idea how to pack the van efficiently, so had to do it in several loads instead of just one. Manoeuvring a sofa up the stairs at the new place was exceptionally difficult and took a lot of muscle and calculating of angles.

When I moved from there to my current place I had removers. I warned them about the big heavy sofa and the awkward turn on the stairs. They looked at me as though I was crazy, because of course they knew exactly how to do it, didn't even have to stop to think about it.

That's why I say removers every time.

Marvel1

Moneysaving site - myself.

csgohan4

Depends if you have the time or the money, if the latter get it done by someone else, at the very least get them to move your stuff.

Packing can be done by yourself to save some money, but it time consuming and stressful in itself.

lollyb84

Removers. Every time. When we bought our first house, we did it ourselves, as we were moving from a parents. In fact, I did several moves between rented properties with just my car (and occasionally a van). To move at the end of last year from our FTB house, to a family home, we got the removal company in, and got them to pack. For an extra 200 quid or so (peanuts in the scheme of house buying) it was definitely worth it. We would've spent weeks doing what they did in 6 or so hours.

chile_paul

Professional movers every time - the only stress you have to worry about is whether you'll be able to fund the kettle to make them a cup of tea at the other end (but given they have a vested interest, they'll almost certainly make sure that the kettle and the biscuits will be the first thing off the van, they'll probably even plug the kettle in for you )

In fact the most stressful thing for me during our last move was standing around feeling like a spare part as they worked their backsides off……..

ben_m_g

I'll never move myself again, the keys where delayed for the new house and the buyers where chasing me (and threatening legal action) from midday.

The only problem is finding a company, quotes vary massively, and I found getting people to give a proper quote is proving impossible if you work full time.

Lu_Lu

Really worried reading all this now! We are moving ourselves and complete on Friday. Only doing it ourselves as having to put everything in storage for 2 weeks before our new house is ready or else I would have used a professional company. The cost was doubled though and we're saving £600 doing it ourselves.

We did 3 trips in a transit van on Saturday to the self storage place and that was everything we had boxed up. The loft, downstairs cupboard and pantry are empty and we just have clothes and final kitchen things to pack.

We have dismantled bunk beds, dining table and will be taking our bed apart tonight so will literally be loading up the Luton van on Friday with hopefully only 1 (but maybe 2) trips to the storage place.

Hoping that if we start at 8am we will have time to do that and a final quick clean before handing keys in around 1pm.

Stressful!!