How to plan a stress-free move

We put together the Ultimate Moving Preparation Checklist to help you get organised when moving to a new place.

Download the entire checklist at: https://www.austate.com.au/ultimate-moving-prep-checklist-signup

4-6 weeks before your move

1. Research your new home
2. Contact removalists and ask for recommendations
3. Speak to your removalist about packing recommendations
4. Got a pet? Look at options for pet care and book it in
5. Book in annual leave with work (include a few days either side)
6. Arrange transport for bikes, boats, trailers and caravans.
7. Piano, pool table or grandfather clock? Make sure your removalist can take care of these and specialise in it.
8. Move your important docs (passports, visas, currency, credit cards etc) to a special place so they won't get boxed up.
9. Start decluttering

3 weeks before you move

1. Contact suppliers (water, electricity and gas)
2. Contact your insurance
3. Transfer documents for school, day-care, sporting clubs etc
4. Obtain a floor plan for your new house and measure up
5. Book your local moves or interstate removlist and let them know about anything such as street access, steep driveways, overhanging trees etc
6. Schedule & book cleaning
7. Plan your move
8. Organise your utilities for your new home

2 weeks before you move

1. Label & number moving boxes
2. Prepare and organise large house items
3. Confirm the key collection details for your new place
4. Update your details (electoral rolls, drivers license, rego's, banks, employers, schools and clubs)
5. Get your family prepped (looking after kids on moving day)
6. If you're moving a great distance, get your car serviced before you go

1 week before your big move

1. Organise mail, subscriptions and services
2. Ensure the new home is prepared with utilities, contact your new council and have security checked at your new home
3. Organise furniture, disassembling anything you that isn't critical to use
4. Organise moving boxes
5. Important last details
6. Have an action plan for moving day

2-3 days before your move

1. Ensure final checks of your home
2. Get prepared (with cash or cards handy for any last minute expenses)
3. Organise last items
4. Make sure the new home is ready
5. Advise your neighbours
6. Advise your new residents with a letter with info (garbage collection, neighbourhood watch etc) to help them settle in

1 day before your move

1. Complete any forms including exit reports and take photos
2. Finish organising for the move

MOVING DAY

1. Say farewell to your old home
2. Check items before and after the move

Get the entire list with important breakdowns as well as our addition house moving tips to make your move easier at https://www.austate.com.au/resources/moving-house-checklist