Moving house can often be an extremely costly and stressful experience. It requires you to invest significant time, effort and resources so when you’re looking for a removalist, you need an experienced and professional team to make your move hassle free.
Before you start packing up your belongings, there are several things you need to take care of to ensure your move runs as smoothly as possible. Most importantly you need to relax and approach the process in stages. There can be so many things to take care of when moving to a new house that the entire process can seem quite overwhelming.
Tips to ensure a smooth transition
Being prepared is essential to making your moving day a great success, so here are a few tips to make your move stress free.
#1 Be organised and plan ahead
Notify the right people of your move and engage a removalist to help you. If you are undertaking a DIY move, you should make arrangements for packing materials such as boxes, bubble wrap and tape.
#2 Pack items you use rarely
Gradually begin packing items that you rarely use and so aren’t likely to need before the move. This will significantly reduce the workload for the last few days prior to your move and will help to keep the actual moving day a lot less stressful.
#3 Take a note of essential information
Keeping note of essential information such as contacts, important documents and your To Do list is a good way to streamline the moving process.
#4 Pack valuables separately
Make sure to pack your valuables separately from the rest of your belongings, with appropriate labelling if fragile.
#5 Pack fragile items with clothes
Use socks to pack and protect smaller items like glasses and mugs and tea towels or towels for larger crockery and breakable pieces.
#6 Pack important documents separately
Pack important documents such as passports and birth certificates separately however if you are using furniture removalists, you may find it more comfortable to move these items yourself.
#7 Pack a bag of ‘essentials’ for your first night
Make a list of all items you will need for the first 24 hours in your new home – unperishable foods, a change of clothes, toiletries, your electronic devices including chargers.
#8 Colour-coding boxes
Colour-code your packing boxes, to make them easily identifiable. You can buy coloured dots from stationary and office supply stores to make this easier. Make sure to keep a list that matches colours with rooms.
#9 Take photos of electronic goods
Photograph the plugs and cords in television sets, computers and other electronics so you can successfully put them back together again in the new space.
#10 Use bin bags to cover hanging clothes
Leave clothes on the hanger and pack half a dozen in a garbage bag to make packing and unpacking faster and easier.
#11 Seal up toiletries
Stop breakages and leaking by sealing up your toiletries with glad wrap and then putting the original tops back on.
#12 Use glad wrap to keep furniture together
Wrap furnishings entirely with a few layers of glad wrap. This is particularly helpful with items that feature drawers or doors as it keeps them in place and offers you another space to store items.
#13 Keep the furniture screws
If you take furniture apart, keep the screws and other small pieces in a small plastic bag and tape them to the piece of furniture.
#14 Defrost white goods
White goods and appliances can get messy if not defrosted before moving so ensure you defrost at least 24 hours before you move.
#15 Take photos of the old and new place
This is particularly important if you are renting. Take a photo of the old place once everything is out of the house and the new one before you put everything in again.
#16 Organise the baby sitters
Since moving can be something of an ordeal it’s a great idea to organise baby sitters if you have small children or pets as it minimises the stress factor for all concerned.
#17 Change of Address
Inform your bank and utilities providers of your move so that any services can be cancelled and final bills can be forwarded to your new address.
No Worries Removals are staffed by competent, professional movers and they will endeavour to remove the stress from your moving day, allowing you to concentrate on the excitement of starting a new chapter in your life.
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