Checklist When Moving House
Here’s an overview of everything you need to do, starting from eight weeks to your moving date.
- Ensure every piece of furniture fits at your new address
- Book a cleaning service for your current and/or new home if required
- Inform your contacts list that you’re moving
- Connect your utilities with Top Movers for free
- Compile important paperwork into an easily accessible folder
- Submit a request for time off work
- Begin using or discarding perishable food that you won’t want to transport to your new home
- Have breakfast and pack a kitchen survival kit
- Meet the movers or get started yourself
- Take care of your belongings and supervise the load-in and out (if appropriate)
- Tidy as you go
- Do a final walkthrough to ensure nothing gets left behind
- Supervise the unloading
- Pay and thank the movers
- Clean floors and surfaces
- Assemble and unpack
- Ensure that your new home’s address is visible
- Greet the neighbours
- Enjoy your new home!
