Tips

Your Comprehensive Guide for an Easy Move

Our Moving Tips

Drawing on our extensive experience in moving, we offer you a comprehensive checklist to prepare for your move and make it even easier.
Feel free to print it out and use it as your checklist!

Individual Move

3 Months Before the Move:

• Terminate the lease
• Notify the internet provider, telephone company, and cable operator in advance
• Submit a request for a new phone number
• Gather information about your new residence
• Find out about schools near your new home in advance
• Take measurements of your new residence and make a plan
• Determine in advance who will disassemble what
• Order flooring
• Order curtains

1 Month Before the Move:

• Confirm the moving date
• Submit a leave request at work
• Arrange with your bank to transfer to a new bank or branch near your new residence
• Cancel the gas subscription at the old address
• Submit a request for a gas subscription at the new address
• Schedule an appointment with the gas installer at the new and old addresses
• Cancel the water subscription at the old address
• Submit a request for a water subscription at the new address
• Schedule an appointment for meter readings
• Inform schools and collect reports and certificates
• Consume frozen products and reserves
• Get the necessary moving boxes (from Moving Van)

2 Weeks Before the Move:

• Take out insurance
• Inform the health insurance fund
• Inform the doctor
• Make sure to get your medical records and reports
• Inform municipal services

1 Week Before the Move:

• Provide your phone number to the moving Van team
• Schedule an appointment for handing over the keys to the old address, as well as the new address
• Duplicate keys for the new address
• Inform regular suppliers of the new address
• Inform the landlord/caretaker/property manager
• Temporarily deposit money and jewelry in a bank safe
• Ensure someone watches over children and pets on moving day
• Schedule an appointment to turn on the heating at the new address
• Return borrowed books to the library
• Submit a request at the post office for correspondence to be automatically transferred to the new address
• Check that nothing has been forgotten at the cobbler, dry cleaner, etc.
• Check that all lockers (school, sports club, etc.) have been emptied

1 Day Before the Move:

• Defrost the freezer and refrigerator
• Ensure sufficient parking space for the moving truck
• Unplug electrical appliances

Moving Day:

• Ensure you have enough cash on hand
• Have gas, water, and electricity meters read
• Drain water pipes in case of severe frost
• Discuss operations with the Moving Van project manager
• Tell the moving team what you need first at your new address
• Do a final check before departure

After the Move:

• Check for any damage caused by the move
• Dispose of empty moving boxes
• Visit the new municipal house
• Update your address on your ID card and driver’s license
• Receive transferred correspondence
• Contact the new bank branch
• Check that orders have not been delivered to the old address
• Meet with new neighbors, suppliers, associations, etc.

Change of Address Notification:

• Family, neighbors, friends, colleagues
• Medical professionals (doctor, dentist, pharmacist, veterinarian)
• Insurance agencies, brokers
• Utility companies (electricity, water, gas)
• Service providers (internet, telephone, cable)
• Post office, bank, school
• Sports clubs, recreational associations
• Municipal house, library
• Newspapers, magazines
• Notary, mutual insurance company