Moving to a new home is an overwhelming and exhausting task. Organizing family members and home luggage carefully is always a challenging task. If everything from packing luggage at one place and moving it to new place is well planned , then relocating becomes easier. Pre-planning is always beneficial before actually moving to a new house. Every home owner has different set of luggage , requirements and thus different set of priorities.
Here are few workable tips it for moving house :
prepare in advance : If you are well informed about relocating to new house, then start preparing in advance. It requires at least two months advance work. First make a to-do list. Then organize all family members and assign everyone with different responsibility.
Cleaning of house : Before moving to a new house, both the old home and new place need to be clean. Old home cleaning is required for maintenance purpose.
Collect packing material : While moving house , everything must be packaged properly to avoid any breakage or other harms to physical items. For packing , generally boxes , newspapers , bubble wraps and plastic bags are needed. Boxes are used especially for easily breakable and expensive things like TV, tube lights, bulbs etc. Collect different size of boxes like small size, middle size and large size. Newspapers, bubble wraps and plastic bags are used to carry fragile items. This packing material can be collected from a departmental or some movers also provide packing material on rent.
Start packing : Always start packing in advance with packing large items first. Leave small items for last times. It is good idea to make a schedule and follow it while packing. For example : packing few items every week from the beginning of last two months before the move.
Hire a professional mover : Some people take assistance of their family members or relatives. But these unprofessional movers may damage home valuables. So it is better to invest little and hire some professional movers for a scheduled and proper move. Such movers are trained and have resource for properly pack and move all valuable. Another benefit is that all valuables are automatically possess certain amount of insurance. In case of any damage, some portion of the item's cost is compensated to the owner.
Change address : This is the most common but important thing which is forgotten by everyone while making move to new house. Get the new address updates with all government office like electricity office, telephone exchange, water billing office as well as with relatives.
Moving day : The moving day is day to carry out two months preparation into action. Professional movers do all things themselves like loading the things into trucks . They check every item if they are packed appropriately or not. But if movers are family members itself then moving day is the day to wake up early and engage family members according to assigned responsibility.
If moving to a new home is properly organized according to these tips and every member is involved, then it leads to a pleasant and smooth moving house.
Moving to a new house is always a challenging task. But if properly carried out with dedication of everyone involved, moving house becomes very pleasant.