Moving home tips - anything over and above the usual?

cymruchris

Brie said:

Label all of the boxes with something understandable.  No secret codes.  So "kitchen", main bedroom, dining room, etc.  

Valuables into luggage to also travel in your car along with your change of clothes.

In your box labelled "kitchen" also state "tea" so your teabags, basic cutlery, UHT milk, sugar, local pizza place menu, paper towels, mugs.  Or if you are like my OH and decided to pack us an easy supper of a pack of buns and some hotdogs in a tin - DON'T FORGET THE TIN OPENER!!! Opening a tin with a screwdriver and plyers is not easy.  

Can you get to the house before the movers with cleaning supplies?  Place we moved to was pristine but the place we moved out of was, shamefully, not.

Can't get into the house before moving day sadly as it's far away - and I know it'll need a good clean. I've got a 'first day' box together full of cleaning materials/cloths/sponges/bucket along with kettle, tea, coffee and cold drinks. And as per your other post - luckily at this stage there are no pets - although that'll likely change once settled.

cymruchris

propertyrental said:

New locks.

Yes! definitely. Same house owner since built, but that's definitely a priority.

cymruchris

kinger101 said:

Brie said:

 - DON'T FORGET THE TIN OPENER!!! 

Surely your mean corkscrew!

I don't drink - but I like your thinking!!

cymruchris

zagubov said:

Hire packers to pack everything (except for a few necessities/valuables).

I'm pretty much already packed - but do want a two person crew to help with the actual move - I won't be lifting the washing machine myself.

cymruchris

SuzeQStan said:

Get rid of any furniture you don’t have attachment to prior to moving which should
make the move easier/ cheaper.

Within 1 year of our last move we had replaced virtually all furniture we’d paid good money to move as it didn’t work in our new place. 

Also try to sell any white goods like fridge/washing machine etc to your buyer. And try to negotiate free fridge/washing machine from your seller.  These things never work right after they have been moved anyway.

Yes have sold some of the bulky stuff already - likely keeping the white goods as they are quite new and a top end brand (I didn't buy them - it's part of an inheritance - I usually tend to buy budget and replace when it goes bang).

cymruchris

RHemmings said:

When I went to stay with my fiancee, I found there was no tin opener. I asked how she opened tins, and she put the tin between her thighs and cut it open with a huge heavy looking knife. The next day I went to buy a tin opener. 

Is she still your fiancee? Was she a bodybuilder or something similar?

Murphybear

tealady said:

Make sure a set of bedding for all beds plus a change of clothes per person are packed separately. Once the beds are in get beds made. Nothing worse than working all day then having to make a bed before you climb into it.

Ask the remover people if they can put the beds in last so they will be the first things out.  Then you can make the beds immediately and they will be ready to collapse into 

Murphybear

jonnydeppiwish! said:

Get all of the furniture in the correct room first, then all of the boxes in a garage (preferable), or a spare bedroom. 

Take one box at a time to empty. If there are any boxes left after 6 months, think about whether you actually need the contents.

Kettle, Hoover, bedding, cleaning supplies and basic wash kit with you in a car.  Don’t forget to turn the fridge on after the required settlement period.

Don’t put anything in the attic (except Xmas decs).

Make sure you have tea, coffee, milk, biscuits/cake, enough mugs in the car so you can make a drink for you and the removal men fairly soon after arrival.  Big roll of kitchen towel can be useful as well.  Just in case 

Sarahspangles

My most recommended post!  Covers things that aren’t often mentioned:

• Letting house plants and outdoor plants ‘dry’ (as much as possible) to make them lighter and less likely to leak in transit.
• Eating up the contents of the freezer and using the space for cool packs on moving day. 
• If you start an online shopping order, and add to it as you use things up, you can have a biggish delivery a day or so after the move, once your fridge freezer is the correct temperature.
• Having back up power packs etc for mobiles.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035348/the-list-of-moving-lists

From experience it’s better to check stoptaps and isolation valves before you need to use them in anger. Not when your dishwasher is leaking!

Label boxes on as many sides as you can be bothered! They’re always lined up or stacked in a way where you have to move them to see what’s in them.

cymruchris

Murphybear said:

jonnydeppiwish! said:

Get all of the furniture in the correct room first, then all of the boxes in a garage (preferable), or a spare bedroom. 

Take one box at a time to empty. If there are any boxes left after 6 months, think about whether you actually need the contents.

Kettle, Hoover, bedding, cleaning supplies and basic wash kit with you in a car.  Don’t forget to turn the fridge on after the required settlement period.

Don’t put anything in the attic (except Xmas decs).

Make sure you have tea, coffee, milk, biscuits/cake, enough mugs in the car so you can make a drink for you and the removal men fairly soon after arrival.  Big roll of kitchen towel can be useful as well.  Just in case 

I've got all that in a labelled box - along with some soft drinks - bought coffee last night for the first time in years as I don't drink it - but the movers might Good suggestion.