Guide to Moving House / Removal Guide

• Confirm removal date and sign and return the moving contract together with your deposit and payment.
• Arrange a contact number whilst you are changing over between homes.
• Start running down your freezer contents.
• Check your home insurance - make sure that you have cover from the day you move in and consider increasing or decreasing the amount of cover.
• Notify your bank and savings/share accounts.
• Ask Royal mail to reroute your post.
• Notify change of address to any H.P. and credit firms.
• Clear loft and any other storage areas ready for removal.
• Plan where things are going in your new home.
• Clean out freezer, ensure defrosted and dry for removal day.
• Send new address cards to friends and relatives.
• Take down curtains and blinds.
• Confirm insurance arrangement at declared value.
• Dispose or sell off anything you don't want.
• Book mains services for disconnections and meter readings.
• Notify doctor, dentist, vet, optician etc.
• Notify telephone company.
• Notify TV licence, DVLA, Passport Offices.
• Make a local map with directions to new house for friends and moving company.
• Start packing your possessions into boxes, clearly labeling boxes with the room and details of the contents.
• Cancel milk and newspapers.
• Find and label keys.
• Sort out clothes and linen.
• Keep to one side your children's toys you might need before you unpack.
• Organise any parking requirements at your old and new properties.
• Pack a box with essentials for when you arrive at your new house. A kettle, tea, coffee, biscuits, mugs, light bulbs and toilet rolls should be high on your list.