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Festive Period Deliveries
Please note: Normal "next day" delivery service will continue up until Thursday 21st December. Any orders placed before 4pm on Thursday 21st December will be delivered on Friday 22nd December. Any orders placed after 4pm on Thursday 21st December will be delivered on Thursday 4th January 2007.
Online orders can still be placed at any time during the holiday period and will be delivered on Thursday 4th January.
Best Wishes for Christmas & The New Year. Moving Home
By Boxes and Bubbles Ltd
Here a just a few tips on how to maximise the efficiency of using your
packaging products for moving home.
- Try not to leave packing your removal boxes
until the day of your home move. Ideally you want to have everything
boxed up and ready to go as soon as your estate agent has called you
to release your new keys. Packing your cardboard
boxes with items that you don’t use on a daily basis can be
done as soon as you know that contracts have been exchanged.
- Get hold of good quality packaging products for moving home, in particular
strong, cardboard boxes. Make sure you
have a good selection of packing boxes in different sizes for the job
in hand. You’ll need medium sized cardboard
boxes for small, heavy items such as books (if you fill a large
box with heavy items it becomes too heavy to lift). Large
removal boxes can be filled with lighter, bulky items. Bed linen
and duvets are best packed in Tea Chest storage
boxes. The best scenario for very large items such as television
sets will be to use their original cardboard
box. If you don’t have this, use plenty of bubble
wrap and make sure you tie up the cable to avoid tripping over it
on the way to the van. Remember to tape the remote control to the inside
of the packing box.
- Don’t just throw your clothes in bin bags. Make life easier
for yourself (and the removal people) by simply transferring your clothes
to a Cardboard Wardrobe. This will keep
your clothes clean and crease free during transit. In addition, the
space at the bottom of the cardboard wardrobe is handy for storing shoes
and handbags.
- Protect you mattresses with mattress
covers. These thick, heavy duty plastic covers will prevent your
mattresses getting scuffed or marked. Because of their size, mattresses
are easily damaged. Packaging products such as mattress covers can also
be used for covering sofas and chairs particularly if the weather is
wet on your removal day. When you get to the other end, they can be
either left on the mattress to prevent moisture damage or used as large
rubbish bags.
- Wrap china, crockery and glass in acid
free tissue paper. This will help prevent the dulling of your china
and once sealed safely in a cardboard box, will protect it during your
home removal.
- What about your best crystal or the bottles of wine in your rack?
You’ll need to keep these separated during transit to prevent
them banging together and breaking. Special
bottle boxes designed specifically with this in mind are available
and come with dividers that separate each item. Adding
tissue paper or bubble wrap to this
equation will give you extra peace of mind during your removal.
- Make sure you have plenty of tape and
a tape gun – absolutely essential for sealing cardboard boxes
quickly and securely.
Utilities
Make sure that you have informed each of these utilities companies that
you are moving home and if possible, see if you can get the account simply
changed over rather than having them cut off. This will save your buyers
having to pay re-connection charges once they move in.
Gas |
Cable/Satellite TV |
Water |
Broadband Connection |
Electricity |
Telephone |
Services
There may be many different companies that service your home and these
will also need some action unless for instance you still want all of your
post turning up at your old address.
Post (Redirection) |
Cleaner (Cancelled) |
Milk (Cancelled) |
Newspapers (Cancelled) |
Window Cleaner (Cancelled) |
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Before you leave (your old home)
Moving house can be just as exciting as it is arduous
and leaving a place clean and tidy with information about the services/area
will help your buyers settle in a little easier. Below are some tips on
how you can make their lives a little easier.
- Leave your house as you would hope to find it. We're not talking a
full spring clean here but wiping ring marks from work surfaces, vacuuming
up the dust from behind long-standing items after you've move them and
giving the toilet a once-over goes such a long way to making people
feel more comfortable with their new environment (remember they will
have had a tough day of packing, lifting and travelling behind them
already).
- Remember to empty your bins and write down the times and days of refuse
recycling collections so that your buyers know when to leave theirs
out.
- Leave out all the keys that relate to your property. The front door
key goes without saying (as the agent will probably hold these) but
keys for things such as sheds, greenhouses, outbuildings and more importantly,
windows will need to be tagged so that your buyer knows which is which.
- Make sure that all of your utilities - Gas, Water, Electricity, are
switched off (not cut off) and leave operating instructions for things
such as the central heating, gas fires and boilers and locations for
things such as Stop Cocks for Gas and Water and Mains Switches for Electricity.
- Also point out locations of utility meters and take meter readings,
leaving copies for your new buyers so that there can be no dispute for
any utility settlement.
- Do a quick check against your fixtures and fittings list (which your
solicitor will have forwarded to you) to make sure you have left all
that you said you would leave.
- You may wish to leave a forwarding address if you have chosen not
to have your mail forwarded directly by the Post Office.
When you arrive (at your new home)
No doubt you will be fairly weary yourself once you arrive at your new
home. No one says that you have to do everything the same day, after all
you will probably be spending a fair amount of time getting the place
just the way you want it. So, these pointers may help you move comfortably
into your new home.
- Always, always put the beds up first because the last thing you'll
want to be doing on the day of moving is put up your bed at midnight
when you are already tired.
- Switch on all of your utilities (if your sellers are using these tips,
they should all be off) and pay special attention to the hot water/boiler
- Familiarise yourself with the keys to your property and ALWAYS KEEP
ONE ON YOU to avoid getting locked out (believe us, this does happen).
Better still, arrange for a lock smith to change all of the locks at
your property to give yourself added security.
- Keep pets inside if possible. Cats especially need to get used to
their surroundings before they feel comfortable enough to venture outside.
- Find your utility meters and take readings. Send these off to the
relevant company IMMEDIATELY so that you can start your new account
and verify the readings that your sellers have potentially already given
them.
We can't guarantee a smooth ride every step of the way but
follow these tips and they will go a long way to helping you avoid a lot
of the hassle that moving can create.
Happy moving
Boxes and Bubbles Ltd.
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