Remember to cancel
- Newspaper and/or milk delivery
- Telephone, internet and satellite TV
- Gas, water and electricity (arrange a final meter reading)
Organise for moving day
- Obtain supply of boxes (the supermarket can be one supplier)
- Get packaging tape and heavy marker pens
- Arrange for furniture removal (get quote, confirm time)
- Arrange care of your children on moving day
- Make suitable arrangements for any pets
- Arrange transit insurance and contents and fire insurance for your new home
- Organise shifting times with the purchaser of your old property and the previous owner of your new one
Notify your change of address to
- Bank, credit card and charge card companies
- Post office for redirection of mail
- Registrar of motor vehicles and drivers license
- SARS
- Insurance companies
- Hire purchase or finance companies
- Investment companies
- Local council
- Clubs and organisations
- Police (if you own and store firearms)
- Friends and relatives
- Magazine subscriptions
- Doctor, dentist, accountant, lawyer
Don’t forget
- Clean the stove and defrost the fridge/freezer
- Tidy the yard
- Disconnect all appliances
- Disconnect the TV aerial
- Return any borrowed items
- Throw out items that you don’t intend taking with you
- List valuable items for special care when moving
- Advise removal company of dangerous goods being moved (i.e. ammunition, petrol, spirits, chemicals)
- Securely pack all jewellery, money, special documents and papers (i.e. legal, tax, insurance etc.)
- Set aside items you will need on the day of the move so you can take them with you (i.e. food, drinks, cleaning products)
- Pack each room leaving the boxes stacked and labelled with the room they are to be moved to. It is a good idea to write on each box a list of its general content
- Clearly label boxes containing breakables as ‘fragile’ and identify these items to the removal people
- Pot and pack away the plants and cuttings you’re taking
- Explain your packing procedure to the removal people and be at your new home when they arrive
Don’t....
- Put breakables or liquid filled containers in drawers
- Overload drawers and make furniture too heavy to move (too much weight can damage furniture)
- Move netting, barbed wire, timber, wood, coal etc. without special arrangements being made
- Store perishable goods where they might be overlooked
Make arrangements to
- Move netting, barbed wire, timber, wood, coal etc. withoutspecial arrangements being made
One last check
- Nothing left behind?
- No clothes at the dry cleaners?
- Electricity, gas and telephone disconnected?
- Water turned off and no taps left running?
- Windows and doors latched?
After it’s all over
- Have spare keys cut
- Make an insurance claim if any damage has occurred during the move
- Teach children how to get to their new school
- Enjoy your new home and keep in touch. We’d love to hear how you’re doing