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Your move in 10 steps

A move is not one task but a chain: each step needs information from the one before. The first two – measuring the new home and listing your belongings – decide almost everything that follows.

  1. 01Measure the new flatMeasure rooms, doors, stairwell and kitchen connections so your furniture fits.Foundation
  2. 02Make an inventoryList everything that moves, room by room, with approximate weights of large items.Foundation
  3. 03Moving volumeCubic metres, boxes, vehicle and helpers by household size at a glance.
  4. 04Boxes and packingBox types and sizes, the heavy-small, light-large rule, a packing list and timing.
  5. 05Floors and accessFloor, lift, stairwell and carry distance: how they affect helpers and time.
  6. 06No-parking zoneSo the moving van can stop close to the door: where to apply and how early.
  7. 07Van and distanceSelf-move, van with crew, full service or part-load, and what distance changes.
  8. 08Bulky wasteSort what does not move and book the city's bulky-waste collection in good time.
  9. 09Kitchen and moving inTake the old kitchen or buy one, utilities and internet, and the handover record.
  10. 10RegistrationTwo-week deadline, landlord confirmation and the other address changes.

Topics around the move

What a move costs, how long furniture assembly takes – and what to do when.

Moving costs

The seven building blocks of a moving price, and why accurate details make your quote safer.

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Furniture assembly

Roughly how long dismantling and assembly take, and how to prepare screws and fittings.

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Moving checklist

The key tasks, ordered by timing, from giving notice to registering.

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