Moving Tips and / or checklist
You are going to move
- Make sure you have a copy of the General Conditions
- Requesting a quotation
- Inquire your employer about a relocation allowance
- Denounce the rent of your current house
- Relocation phone / apply for a new phone connection
- Inform school of the children
- Agree with new residents of your old home (eg take over of items like curtains or floor)
- Agree with ancient inhabitants of your new home
- Inquire about subsidy options
- Employer regulations for moving
- Take measurements in your new house
- Denounce or change any domestic help
- Get Relocation Service TNT at post office
- Begin to cleanup
- Request Municipal guide and map if you go to another municipality
- Inquire about schools, childcare, healthcare, public transport, waste, municipal regulations.
- Register the children at their new school
4-2 weeks before your move
- Inform your insurance companies about your move
- Arrange shutdown of electricity, gas and water in the old house
- Arrange stratup of electricity, gas and water in new house
- Cleanup and remove items with will not move to the new house
2 weeks before your move
- Send address changes
- Childcare arrangements for children and pets daycare for the actual moving day
- Inform caretaker
- Redeem savings campaigns local retailers
- Return library books
- Put important papers that are not immediately needed and valuables in bank vault
1 week before your move
- Cleaning your new house and mark the rooms
- Remove fixed lamps
- Remove curtains (except bedrooms)
- Inform suppliers
- Start packing items you no longer need to pack
- Get easy meals in for the night before the move and the moving day
- Is there enough coffee (including cups, sugar, creamer, spoons) present in the old and the new house?
- Arrange bulky refuse
- Garbage Containers old house emptying and cleaning (also leave behind the garbage calendar)
- Empty the contents of your chemobox at your nearest drop off depot
1 day before your move
- Defrost and clean refrigerator and freezer
- Lock drum washing machine and dryer
- Disassemble furniture
- Remove the pendulum from clock
- Reserve loading space for the removal van, by blocking this space by parking your car and your neighbours in that spot
- Packing final items
Moving day
- Remove curtains in the bedrooms
- Store keys in key pocket
- Keep money and debit cards separated
- Final check for what is being left behind
- Registering final settings for elcetricity, gas and water meters
- Closing the gas and electricity if necessary
- Drain water pipes in the winter (even if it is not freezing)
- Close all doors and windows
- Hand-in all keys of the old house
- Saying goodbye to the neighbors
After arrival in your new home
- Let the movers place the boxes in the designated location as much as possible
- Upon unpacking check for damage
- Create a habitable space as soon as possible
- Hang bedroom curtains hang
- Let the fridge and freezer acclimatize for 1 day
- Remove drum locks from washing machine and dryer
After your move
- Unpack
- Make an appointment to collect the empty boxes
- Notification of change of address at your city registery