How to move a fridge freezer without damaging it
A fridge freezer looks like a box with a door. The part that matters is the compressor at the back, and that is what a bad move damages.
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Advice from the van end of the job.
Most people move house every few years, which is not often enough to get good at it. These are the things we watch people get caught out by, written down so you do not have to find out on the day.
What you will find here. Practical guides to moving house and office, written from the working end of it. We are a removals firm in Dunstable, so most of this is the stuff we end up explaining on the phone anyway: what to do and when, what tends to go wrong, and which jobs are worth doing yourself versus paying someone for.
Everything here is specific. No listicles, no filler, and nothing written to hit a word count. The complete house moving checklist is the place to start if you have a date in the diary. It breaks the whole thing into eight time periods from eight weeks out to your first week in the new place, with 56 tasks you can tick off as you go, and it saves your progress so you can come back to it.
The practical detail that changes by town lives on the area pages instead. Parking permits and conservation streets in St Albans, lift and loading bay bookings in Watford, garage courts and footpath-only frontages in Stevenage. If you want the short version of how a booking works, the four steps are set out here.
How long does it take to move house? Packing, loading and the day itself
Most people plan the move around the drive. The drive is the short part. Here is where the hours actually go.
Read the guideHow to pack glasses for moving so they arrive in one piece
Glasses rarely break because they were wrapped badly. They break because they could move inside the box. Here is how to stop that.
Read the guidePacking materials for moving: what you actually need and what you can skip
Most people buy too much of the wrong packing material and run out of the right one the night before. Here is the short list that matters.
Read the guideCompletion day: what time you get the keys and how to plan the move
Completion day rarely runs to the minute. Planning the van around the money, not the clock, is what keeps it calm.
Read the guideHow to move a washing machine without wrecking the drum
A washing machine is the heaviest awkward thing in most kitchens, and the drum is the part that suffers if it is moved wrong.
Read the guideMan and van cost: what an hourly rate really buys
Two man and van quotes at the same hourly rate can end up a long way apart. Here is where the difference hides.
Read the guideMoving house with kids: what actually helps on the day
Children notice everything on moving day. A little preparation keeps it an adventure rather than an upheaval.
Read the guideMoving day parking: get a parking suspension before the removal van arrives
A removals lorry parked fifty metres away adds hours to a move. Here is how to get it outside the door.
Read the guideOffice relocation tips: moving on an evening or weekend to keep the business open
Most small offices cannot afford to close for a day. Moving out of hours avoids it, if the planning is done first.
Read the guideMoving house tips nobody tells you until it is too late
The things that go wrong on moving day are rarely the big ones. They are the small jobs nobody thought to do the week before.
Read the guideThe cost of moving house in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, itemised
Removals is one line on a long list, and it is the line people compare hardest. Here is what sits inside it.
Read the guideRemoval quotes: what should be in one, and what quietly gets left out
Three prices for the same house, hundreds of pounds apart. Usually they are quoting three different jobs.
Read the guideStorage while moving house: when you need it and when you are paying for nothing
Gaps between completions, downsizing, and renovations. Three real reasons, and a lot of storage bought for none of them.
Read the guideThe best way to pack a house for moving, room by room
Start with the room you use least and finish with the kettle. Everything else is detail, and the detail is where the day goes.
Read the guideWho to notify when moving house, in the order that matters
Some of this has a deadline attached. Most of it does not, and treating it all as urgent is how the important ones get missed.
Read the guideMan with a van or a full removals crew: which do you actually need?
Where the line really sits between the two, why access matters more than the number of bedrooms, and how to stop an hourly rate turning into a long day.
Read the guideThe office relocation checklist I wish someone had handed me years ago
The internet, the furniture nobody measured, and the boss deciding at the last minute. What actually catches offices out, written from the van end of the job.
Read the guideThe complete house moving checklist
What to do at eight weeks, four weeks, two weeks, moving week and on the day itself. Written from the van end of the job, not the estate agent end.
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