Moving House Checklist

Have You Discontinued or Redirected These Services?

• Newspaper delivery
• Telephone/Internet Services
• Sky/Pay TV
• Gas and electricity
• Water (rural supply)

Notify Your Change of Address

• Post office for redirection of mail
• Your bank (to transfer your account)
• The electoral registrar
• Hire purchase company
• Your insurance company to transfer your household insurance/motor vehicles
• Your life insurance company
• Your health insurance company
• Obtain your children’s school records
• Local council for rates
• Stores – where you have charge accounts
• Relatives, friends and regular correspondents
• Club Memberships
• Publications to which you subscribe
• Has your doctor or dentist recommended someone in the location to which you are moving to?
• Your solicitors/accountants
• Your church
• Credit card companies
• Airline frequent flyer programmes
• Cleaners and gardeners

In Preparation for Move Day

• Ensure your move is confirmed with The Moving Company as soon as moving dates are known
• Complete your transit insurance proposal and return to The Moving Company
• Spring clean – discard the things you no longer want, clean out expired medicines
• Dispose of inflammables or leave for new owners (i.e. paints, turps, kerosene, petrol which are items we cannot carry)
• Arrange childcare for day(s) of moving (if applicable)
• Dismantle fragile kit set furniture
• Have BBQ/heater gas bottles professionally purged
• Arrange for a specialist to disconnect plasma TVs

Keep Important Documents Together & With You

• Travel Documents, i.e. airline tickets
• Travellers cheques
• Passport and visa/frequent flyer cards
• Vaccination records for pets
• Medical and travel insurance
• Driver’s licence
• Paperwork relating to your household goods removal
• Extra set of keys for the car
• Jewellery
• Sunglasses
• Plan to be available on move day or have an authorised person available

Do You Need To …

• Have your car serviced?
• Book pet transport/boarding with The Moving Company?
• Collect dry cleaning?
• Return school or library books?
• Empty golf club lockers?
• Book your flights or use The Moving Company to arrange

The Day Before

• Defrost freezers
• Empty rubbish bins
• Drain most fuel from mowers/petrol weed-eaters
• Thoroughly clean garden tools, mowers, golf clubs, outdoor furniture and bikes for quarantine inspections if moving overseas
• Empty vacuum cleaners (export shipments only)
• Identify items not to be packed and place in one area
• Ensure washing machine taps are turned off
• Identify the items for your “Priority Cartons” – those items you want first on delivery/or the items for temporary use if going via storage
• Arrange a simple breakfast for move day and empty the dishwasher!
• Water plants being moved (for nationwide moves only)

A Few Important Points to Know

• If we are storing your household goods, the following articles are classified as DANGEROUS GOODS and cannot be stored: ammunition, paint, linseed oil, turpentine, kerosene, petrol, cleaning fluids and aerosols of any kind
• Don’t store perishable foods such as cereals, flour, vegetables, meat/fish etc.
• Please don’t have your furniture French polished just before moving and if you are packing, don’t put breakable items or liquids in drawers (i.e. perfume)
• If you are selecting volume based transit insurance, remember to identify any antique items or special items of value over NZD$10,000.00 on our insurance proposal form

On Move Day We Need You To

• Ensure your fridge is empty and clean
• Check everything to be packed and moved has been loaded and sign and retain a copy of our inventory list for your records

We trust this Moving House Checklist has been of assistance, if you are still looking for a trusted moving company please don’t hesitate to request an obligation free quote from The Moving Company today!