Enduring a house removals process is time consuming and stressful for everyone involved.
But you can make it a much easier and less stressful process with a little advance planning.
First of all, if you have pets, you might consider leaving them with the neighbors for a few days during the actual house removals.
Pets stress just like humans do and they don't understand it when they see their food and water dishes disappear.
Second you should consider making a checklist of all the things that need to be accomplished before the actual move.
You need to plan to make sure all the food is removed from the refrigerator or that all the clothes you need to take with you are clean and not in a pile waiting to be packed.
Third, you will need to arrange for the utilities to be turned on at the place you are moving to.
If your present house is still for sale you need to arrange to keep those utilities on required to show it.
A realtor can't show a dark house.
Fourth, if you have decided to pack your goods yourself, you will need to plan exactly where you will set all the packed boxes.
You might not realize it but wardrobe boxes are big and tall and take up quite a bit of space.
If you put six or ten of them in a room you may not be able to use that room.
Fifth, you need to plan exactly how you are going to empty the rooms as you fill the boxes.
Boxes come in different sizes and strengths.
They can have different configurations for specific items like mirror or dish paks.
Dish paks are expensive and you really don't want to be filling them up with bedding.
And remember you can use towels and bedding to safely wrap pictures and fragile items.
You also need to remember either to list the room where the box goes at the final location or list the contents.
If you stack boxes as you pack them you have to remember to leave walking space both for your family and for the house removals workers.
They need to have room to stack several boxes on a dolly without backing up on or into a box of fragile items.
You should also try to keep like boxed items together.
House removals drivers like to load their truck with the weight distributed evenly.
Heavy boxes go in one place in the van and light things cannot be stacked under book boxes.
The movers will come to your house on the day of the move and one of them will put a numbered sticker on each box or piece of furniture.
This will be noted on several bills of lading type pages.
At the end of the move as they are unloading, someone will be checking off each piece against their numbered inventory.
They may ask that you be involved in this process.
Some advance planning make a good move.