Advice on moving belongings on completion day.

rach_k

Hiring professionals decreases the possibility of relationship breakdown or needing to hide a body under your nice new patio too!

They will know the best way to do things and will just get on with it efficiently.  Idiot husbands, on the other hand... well let's just say I'm still bitter about how our move went 8 years ago!  Next time, he will be taking the kids out for the day while I stay to supervise the people we hire to do everything properly.  

Bonniepurple

I think you’ve made the right decision.  The last time we moved our buyers insisted that it had to be one of the few weeks that my husband works full time.  I packed, got the movers in, was in the house hours after completion trying to clean (the vacuum decided that it wasn’t going to move and broke down in protest!) and generally sort everything out.  Our buyers weren’t even moving in that day.

If we ever do move again I am paying for both packers and movers.  For the sake of saving a few hundred pounds the stress isn’t worth it.

Flugelhorn

people do underestimate what it takes to move themselves, we moved into one where the vendor was doing the move themselves, completion took place at 1200 and 2 hours later they were still faffing about - refusing deliveries of ours that happen to turn up that day denying they knew who we were - they left quite a bit of stuff, some useful - the rest went out with the bins the next day.