Every Home Moving Checklist You Will Ever Need

You have probably heard this a hundred times but it is worth repeating, moving home can be an organisational nightmare if you do not have the proper checklists and planning tools to keep you organized, and to ensure you do not miss any home moving tasks.

Having those home moving planners in an interactive, downloadable, and printable format ensures that you can keep duplicate copies on different devices and have back-up copies should you need them.

They are also far more easily edited than paper copies, which will allow any changes you have to make so much easier.

So, in our never ending quest to make the relocation process as simple as possible for home movers, here you will find all the organizational checklists you need to move home.

We have even thrown in some free, essential home moving tips for you, with links to some great home moving guides!

In this invaluable blog you will find the following home moving checklists:

• How to Compare Removal Company Checklist
• Interactive Home Moving Planner and Checklist
• Change of Address Checklist
• Interactive Packing Inventory

And as an extra bonus here is a guide to creating a home moving binder.

This will give you ideas on how to create a home moving binder with everything neatly kept in one place. It is a great tool for not only organizing all your paperwork but keeps all the essential information close at hand ready to hand over to the people moving into your old home.

Don’t forget to ask the person whose home you are moving into to create a home moving binder for you too.

Essential Home Moving Tip #1 – Before you do anything else when moving home, declutter!

This means selling, donating or throwing away any items that you no longer need, want, or will just not be cost effective to have moved to your new home.

The benefits of doing this are that you will reduce packing time and costs, there will be less to transport which will reduce removal costs, and your new home will only have things in it that are worthy of being part of your new life.

It is a good idea to create a floor plan of your new home so that you decide early on in the planning stage whether furniture will fit in your new home and if not, how you will dispose of those pieces.

Recommended reading: How to move home cheaply and make a profit.

And if you plan on donating any of your surplus items here is a comprehensive list of places to donate those items. Some organisations will collect your unwanted items for free too saving you even more money whilst helping out your local community.

Essential Home Moving Tip #2 – Ensure that you get a number of removal company cost estimates to compare before choosing which removal firm to hire.

Be wary of any quotes that are considerably lower than the others as removal companies’ work to tight margins and this might be an indication of a company that will try to hit you with extra charges on moving day.

Obtaining a quote takes just a minute and both domestic and international home move quotes can be provided.

Must do: Get your free home removal cost estimate quotes

How to Choose a Reputable Removal Company

Having obtained your quotes from a number of reputable removal companies, now you should compare them, like for like, to enable you to make an informed decision as to which removal company to hire.

Having completed this checklist you can easily compare the different moving companies, which may also provide you with some information that you can use to negotiate a better deal with the removal company.

Essentially though, it will help identify which removal company best suits your particular home move.

Valuable advice: What to know when hiring a removal company for the first time.

Free pintable checklist: How to Compare Removal Companies

 Essential Home Moving Tip #3 – Select your removal company wisely.

Gather as much information as possible about the removal companies you are considering hiring.

Read all the reviews about the prospective removal companies that you can to ensure that you do not become a victim of a removal company scam.

Check out their website, confirm the contact details are legitimate and that they have an actual depot and not just a P.O. Box number, which can often indicate that they are not a legitimate removal company.

Spending time now to choose a reputable removal company could save you a lot of stress and further expense in the future.

Good to know: How to make Removal Company reviews work for you.

How to Organise your Home Move

And now we come to one of the most essential tools to help you move home, your home moving timeline and planner.

This free, interactive, downloadable and printable version is probably the most comprehensive home moving calendar and planner available on the internet.

Step-by-step your home move is planned over the ideal 8 week moving period, but this planner is adaptable to suit your particular timeframe, the steps, however, are all essential to have a stress-free home move.

Free interactive Checklist: Home Moving Timeline and Planner

One of the must-do tasks to prevent identity theft, to ensure that you do not incur utility charges for bills that are not yours, and so that all those people who need to know of your new address are kept informed, is to ensure you have a change of address checklist.

We have created a very detailed Change of Address checklist which is free, downloadable and printable. Obviously, you may have additions to this list so it is adaptable to suit your particular home move.

Free Interactive and downloadable Change of Address Checklist

Home Move Packing Tips

Keeping track of what you packed in each home moving box is vital so that you can quickly access those key items when you get to your new home.

It will also help you identify if anything is missing from your packing boxes, and will assist you in the event that you need to make an insurance claim.

This packing inventory gives you the opportunity to record every item, from every room in the house, with the facility to record such useful information as serial numbers for expensive electronic items.

Free Packing Inventory and Checklist

Packing is the single most arduous task when moving home.

It is best left to professional packers as they have the skills and packing materials to ensure your items are properly protected for your home move.

But if you do opt to pack yourself you will need to follow our guides to ensure that your precious and fragile items are not damaged in transit.

Find out all you need to know about packing materials

Essential Home Moving Tip #4 – A really useful box that you absolutely must pack is a moving day essentials box.

This box will contain everything you need on moving day and your first night in your new home, from food and drink to vital medication.

You may even consider such a box for each member of the family depending upon the distance you have to travel to your new home.

It will travel with you and not in the removal van as it will contain anything you may need during the day.

You will find ideas of the sort of thing you may consider packing in your moving day survival box below.

Useful Information: How to prepare an Open First Box

It is crucial that having packed your items into their boxes that you correctly label the moving boxes.

If each box is numbered then you can tick them off of your packing inventory to ensure that none are missing when you get to your new home.

It will make the unpacking process so much easier if you know exactly what is in each box and which room they are to be assigned to.

It will also speed the unpacking process as non-essential items can easily be identified and can be unpacked last.

To help identify any moving boxes that contain fragile items or that need to be stored upright you can download free printable labels from the internet. They do not need to be printed onto custom labels, just sellotape them to the boxes.

Essential Home Moving Tip #5 – Don’t write on the outside of the moving boxes that they contain valuable items.

Use abbreviations or codes that only make sense to you, which is a sensible security precaution.

It is highly recommended that irreplaceable or particularly expensive items travel with you and not in the removal van.

Useful Information: Home moving Insurance – Do I Need It?

You now have all the essential checklists you need to organize and execute a successful home move.

But if you think that you have an idea for a home moving checklist that we have not yet created, drop us a comment in the box below.

And don’t forget to share these super useful tools with any friends or family that are also about to move home, they will thank you for it.

Happy home move!

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