5 - 6 Weeks Before
- Check that your passports and visas are valid
- Check whether any permits are required, e.g. for residency, work, vehicles or firearms
- Check vaccination requirements
- Check your travel documents and tickets
- Collate all your personal documents, e.g. birth and marriage certificates, and medical and school records
- Advise your solicitor/attorney, bank, doctor, dentist, insurance company, building society and DSS
- Cancel subscriptions to clubs and magazines
- Notify schools
- Obtain invoices for new purchases (for customs import formalities)
- Clear out the loft, attic, garage and shed
3 - 4 Weeks Before
- Prepare a valuation for insurance and complete the Interconex insurance proposal form
- Dispose of the items you don't want to ship
- Supply a contact number and/or address for after you have moved but before you leave the country (if appropriate)
- Supply your overseas contact address and phone number
- Check with Interconex about obtaining a VAT refund on new purchases
- Ask for final accounts for gas, water and electricity
- Complete all outstanding credit agreements
- Cancel all rental agreements
- Run down stocks of food and drink
- Confirm your removal date with Interconex
1 - 2 Weeks Before
- Arrange for mail to be forwarded
- Clean garden tools, bicycles, etc.
- Arrange care for children and pets on moving day
- Arrange for main services to be disconnected
- Advise your newsagent and milkman and pay their accounts
- Empty lockers at school and work
- Return or retrieve any items on loan
- Drain fuel from motor mowers
- Dispose of plants and perishable food
1 Day Before
- Separate all personal items which are to travel with you, e.g. keys, documents, passports, tickets, certificates, currency, clothing, etc.
- Disconnect, clean and dry any electrical appliances that you wish to ship
- Disconnect lights for shipment and make wiring safe
- Dismantle furniture items as per the Interconex schedule
- Loosen fitted carpets at the edges
- Arrange with neighbors to leave sufficient parking space for the removal vehicle
- Reserve the lift/elevator if you live in an apartment
Moving Day
- On Moving Day, relax and let Interconex do the work
- Remain on hand in case the packers have any questions
- Check all rooms, cupboards and walls to make sure nothing is left behind
- Please remember to review, sign and get a copy of the packing inventory