Wow! Congratulations! How exciting!!! Definitely hire a truck - much easier with a hydraulic lift at the back too.
Maybe do a room by room list when you do your next inspection?
Smoke alarms/fire blanket/extinguisher
Kitchen bin/cutlery drawer thing
Door mats
Get spare keys cut - give to someone responsible (we got locked out mid move )
A good help when moving is to pack a picnic basket with kettle/coffee/tea/snacks/cups and a loo roll so you have easy access to them!!!
Ohhh sooo exciting! Enjoy.....
Have you got your bins organised??
Lol, sorry. A friend of mine recently moved out of a new place. When they moved in alot of things were forgotten.
No screen door, no fly screens, no wheely bins, no TV ariel. Oh & the adress changed 3 times in the first few weeks, fun for telstra, electricity etc!
Light globes aren't always included. They weren't with our first house and either was door stops so check on that one definitely!
Are fences included with your builder? You may need to book in fencing in advance if it's not. I know there was a 10 weeks wait down here at one stage cos it's so busy!
What about fly screens? You may not need them now but it won't be long and the budgies will start coming in
Get brave and purge as you pack. I've always donated heaps every time we've moved And if you are getting stuck into it now you don't need to worry about the stuff you throw out clogging up your bin in the last week.
If you start the linen cupboard and kitchen stuff you never use and only leave out the daily essentials you will have less to pack in the days before the move.
You guys are AWESOME! Thankyou so much for your help, I think you'll be my lifeline in the next month!
Now let's see:
- the house comes with smoke detectors, but ooer on getting locked out Mak! I'll get some keys cut asap then! But I think it should be okay, since we're hoping to have people stationed at either house, me and dad (recovering from ankle op) at the new house, me unpacking and dad maybe installing blinds...not sure yet. What else can I set him to work on?
- You might be right on the piano removal Muppity...I'll look into the cost with our local dealer where we got the piano.
- Oh bins! How do I organise those?
- We've got fly screens and fences included. And I've already done the linen cupboard - it's the only cupboard in the whole house and I got sick of having no storage! I hear you on the purging, you're right, we'll have to keep being really disciplined...helps that it's easier to chuck some things than pack.
- As for the antenna, we've got one that dh chucked on the roof so I guess we can bring that with us? We don't watch too much tv anyway, so hopefully we'll be okay. We'll just record a lot of tv before we go? Haha.
ETA: - ooh yeah, picture hooks.
I think you'd ring the coucil about bins. They'd have to organise them wouldn't they? Even though most garbage services are done outside the council I'm still pretty sure it'd go through them. Since they pay the outside companies & its to do with your rates...
Never had to do it myself though, so
For a brand new house you need to ring the council when you move in, they will be delivered by the next weeks rubbish day - so shiney and new and clean....lol
FlyLady Nelle
ETA: Our letterbox wasn't included either - neither were the lightbulbs...Make sure you take a roll of toilet paper too! lol
And turn the ot water system on when you get there so you have hot showers that night...I didnt and ended up spending the night with a baby with projectile vomit and no hot water lol
You will probably find too that all your Gas/electricity and water accounts have been set up in your name and turned on already, so you will just need to cancel your old ones.
Mail redirection takes 3 working days, so organise it a bit before you move (once you have aletter box! lol - we got a cheapie from Bunnings for the time being until the landscaping is done.
Check EVERYTHING - we found a massive hole in our slab near the bag door, millipedes under the lino which have marked it and they now have to replace the whole lot grr...anyway, make sure you have a look at everything, open adn close all the doors and make sure they arent sticking no gaps etc
Have fun!!
Last edited by LimeSlice; September 1st, 2009 at 05:03 PM.
I would try and get a piano mover if you can. They are such delicate but heavy items. There are specialty companies that do it. The last thing that you want is to move into the new house and have to pay a fortune to get the piano repaired because a well meaning friend of DH dropped it on his foot (and think of the horror of getting the foot repared too!)
And the gentler the move is on it the cheaper it is to get it tuned afterwards.
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And if you are getting stuck into it now you don't need to worry about the stuff you throw out clogging up your bin in the last week.
Thankyou so much for your help, I think you'll be my lifeline in the next month!
I'll get some keys cut asap then! But I think it should be okay, since we're hoping to have people stationed at either house, me and dad (recovering from ankle op) at the new house, me unpacking and dad maybe installing blinds...not sure yet. What else can I set him to work on?
I hear you on the purging, you're right, we'll have to keep being really disciplined...helps that it's easier to chuck some things than pack.
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