Question about removers' packing service

TheJP

verytired11 said:

TheJP said:

Make sure you do your sorting out of things you don't want as they will stick it all on the lorry. I haven't used this service but know of friends that have and they say it takes a lot of the pressure and stress out of it.

Also do the new owners a favour and dispose of the paint, no one realistically wants open half tins of paint that are likely no use unless you have recently painted and the tins are unopened. 

I have already shown the buyer all the paint and he insists he would like me to leave it!  Very happy with that!

That's a bonus then. Twice I've ended up having to clear paint in a garage or loft. Years old nearly empty paint tins which the seller said he doesn't want any money for as he left them as a gesture of good will.

zagubov

Give them labels or coloured stickers for which rooms your current rooms content are going into.

Make sure chargers, medicines, toiletries, tools, key utensils/crockery/paper plates and can/bottle openers are there for when you get takeaways.

They'll be staggeringly more efficient than you would be yourself at dealing with the other stuff.

KeepOnKnitting

Thanks everyone for the input. As with the OP I am considering having a packing service. I have never even used removers before, always done it all myself or with family, so it's good to get opinions. It sounds like magic.

Jude57

What impressed me when I had packing done for the first time was the cardboard wardrobes! They literally took the clothes on hangers out of my wardrobes and hung them in the cardboard wardrobes they brought with them. My stuff was going into storage until my new house was ready so I'd packed a range of clothes in suitcases to go with me but there was a lot going to storage. When I got my stuff delivered to my new house it was simply a case of taking clothes out of the cardboard wardrobes and into the proper wardrobes, easy as could be.

My movers have always also offered a service to come and collect the packing boxes at a later, agreed date. That turned out to be a good thing because there were far more boxes than I'd expected them to use and, even flattened, they took up a lot of space.

Soot2006

I too feel it was the best money ever spent. And they also packed our kitchen waste bin with all the waste in it lol ...

As above,  the packers were like locusts - everything that was nailed down went into the lorry. In our case they packed for 2 hours the afternoon before the move, leaving us our bed, TV, and a few bits in the kitchen. Then by 8.30am the entire house was empty and we did our final walk-through. We were the first house in a chain of 5, so we go the chain off to a good start haha ...

verytired11

Soot2006 said:

I too feel it was the best money ever spent. And they also packed our kitchen waste bin with all the waste in it lol ...

As above,  the packers were like locusts - everything that was nailed down went into the lorry. In our case they packed for 2 hours the afternoon before the move, leaving us our bed, TV, and a few bits in the kitchen. Then by 8.30am the entire house was empty and we did our final walk-through. We were the first house in a chain of 5, so we go the chain off to a good start haha ...

wow that sounds efficient.  I will be very happy if we can leave early in the morning as moving day is such a long day.

verytired11

zagubov said:

Give them labels or coloured stickers for which rooms your current rooms content are going into.

Make sure chargers, medicines, toiletries, tools, key utensils/crockery/paper plates and can/bottle openers are there for when you get takeaways.

They'll be staggeringly more efficient than you would be yourself at dealing with the other stuff.

Thanks that's a great tip about the stickers - will definitely do that!

gingercordial

Professional packers are absolutely brilliant and I would not move without them.

Last time ours did about half of it the day before and the other half on the morning of the move, but that's because we were under no time pressure to get out (moving out of our rental before the final day of the tenancy, into a property we'd already purchased) and so it was fairly chilled by their standards.  Even so they were so fast.

As others have said they will take everything so be very clear about what you want to leave behind, and ideally put it all in one designated place.  I had to try to keep safe a carrier bag I'd put together with all the manuals, thermostat etc for the flat we were leaving but I couldn't let it out of my sight as they'd try to pack it.

The only thing they wouldn't take was the gas canister from our barbecue, so we had to take the canister in the car and they brought the barbecue itself.

Brie

The only problem we had with this service was that they packed all the remotes including the one that controlled the boiler.  Took us 3 days to find the thing and get it back to the new owner who had no heat for the coldest week on the south coast in 10 years.  

trailingspouse

The only downside is they don't offer an UNpacking service...