The 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.
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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.
Removal 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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