Removal suggestion
As soon as you know when the removal takes place:
- request a telephone connection
- arrange a possible takeover of furniture from the owners of your new home
- request removal leave from your employer
- request for possible payment of removal costs
- change/stop automatic banks debits
- collect address change forms from the post office and fill them in
- discard items you don’t want to take with you
Moving to another town
- Deregister yourself from the town council register where you live
- Get a permit from the new town council register
- Ask for a new town guide
4 till 2 weeks before you move
- Make a list of all the address changes you want to send out
- Inform your doctor
- Inform your dentist
- Inform social welfare
- Inform your insurance
- Inform the town council
- Inform the old schools
- Apply for new schools for your kids
- request a new post box
- request your electricity company to disconnect electricity
- request the water company to read the water meter
- arrange electricity for your new home
- arrange the water for your new home
- make a new name sign
- change newspaper subsription
The last two weeks before you move
- inform the house master
- take care of old and new house keys
- arrange heating of your old and new house
- secure important papers which you don’t need at this time in a safety deposit box
- store all valuables (jewellery etc.) in a safety deposit box
- Start packing
The last few days before you will move
- pack everything you don’t need at the last moment
- buy easy fast food meals for the night before and the day of your removal
- use the last day of garbage collection to get rid of things you don’t want to take
On the last day before the removal
- switch off fridge and clean
- dry the fridge completely
- say goodbye to the old neighbours
- pack the last items left
On the day of the removal
- remove the last curtains
- put all keys on a key ring in your hand luggage
- put money and papers in your hand luggage
- write down the water and electricity meter readings
- close the gas supply
- shut down electricity (except if its in use for heating the house)
- during winter drain all water pipes
- make sure all doors and windows are secure
- give keys to the house master
After the removal
- contact us about the empty boxes
- introduce yourself to the new neighbours
- introduce yourself to the new house master
- check if post change works
- arrange new automatic bank debits
- return the questionnaire of your removal company
- recommend our firm to you colleagues and friends if they want to move
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