Moving tips - Moving Company Amsterdam - Fa. P.M. de Wit & Zn

The move

• Make an appointment with a certified mover such as Verhuisbedrijf Amsterdam - Fa. PM de Wit & Zn

• Cancel your lease on your old home

• Offering an old house for sale

• Arrange a mortgage

• Relocating telephone/requesting a new telephone from KPN

• Notify school

• Make agreements about taking over floor coverings and the like with previous and future residents

• Inquire about rental subsidy options

• Arrange relocation leave with employer

• Inquire about possible reimbursement of moving costs

• Inquire about tax deduction options for moving costs

• Take measurements of new house

• Cancel domestic help

• Collect a moving notice from the post office and send it completed

• Start by clearing out everything you won't be taking with you to your new home

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Moving to another municipality?

• Apply for a business permit from the municipality

• Purchase a municipal guide and map

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Inquire about:

• schools

• associations

• nursery school

• family care

• social work

• consultation agency

• public transport

• garbage collection system

• dog tax

• municipal provisions

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Two to four weeks before you move:

• Register children at new school

• Order business cards

• Order stationery

• Notify your home and contents insurance

• Arrange electricity, gas and water disconnection in old home

• Arrange electricity, gas and water connections for new home

• Make an appointment with a gas fitter to connect gas appliances in your new home

• Collect a moving notice from the post office and send it completed

• Have a name tag made

• A lot more cleaning up that doesn't have to be taken to the new home

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The last weeks before you move:

• Send address changes

• Arrange childcare on moving day

• Arrange pet care

• Inform the caretaker

• Redeem savings stamps at local retailers

• Cancel PO Box and request a new one

• Return library books

• Store important papers that you do not need immediately and jewelry in a bank safe

• Have a name tag made

• Clean up or remove anything you no longer want to take with you to the new home. offer for sale through an advertisement.

• Start packing

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The last few days before you move:

• Cleaning new house and marking rooms

• If necessary, loosen the floor covering

• Remove fixed lamps

• Remove curtains (except in bedrooms).

• Inform suppliers

• Remove the satellite dish from the roof

• Pack everything you won't need until the last minute

• Prepare simple meals for the night before the move and the moving day itself

• Check whether there is enough coffee in the house

• Engage municipal cleaning for bulky waste

• Secure washing machine drum protection

• Request a moving card from the municipality

• Cutting off perennial garden plants (if the season is suitable)

• Leave household waste containers empty and clean, if possible accompanied by the waste calendar

• Contents of the poison box sent to the poison box or to the municipal depot. Also leave the environmental box in your old house.

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On the last day before you move

• Defrost and clean the refrigerator

• Place the full freezer on the coldest setting

• Take apart removable furniture

• Remove the pendulum from the clock

• Try to reserve a space for a moving van with your own car and a neighbor's car

• Packing the last things

• Place garden plants in buckets or plastic bags

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On the moving day itself

• Remove the last curtains

• All keys in hand luggage

• Money and checks in hand luggage

• Check house for items left behind

• Record meter readings

• Turn off gas and electricity (except if power is needed for heating that remains on)

• Draining the water pipe in winter (even when it is not freezing)

• Close all windows and doors properly

• Give the key to the caretaker/new residents

After arriving at the new home

• Have everything put in the right place as much as possible

• Check all unpacked items for possible moving damage

• Pay with your Certified Mover

• Make a room habitable as quickly as possible

• Hang up bedroom curtains

• Allow the refrigerator and freezer to rest for a day before switching on

• Loosen washing machine drum lock

• Unpack everything

• Screw nameplate to the door

• Report any moving damage to your Certified Mover

• Contact your Certified Mover about collecting the empty moving boxes

• Arrange any damage to the home with the landlord

• Meet the new caretaker

• Submit the moving card to the municipal clerk's office

• Collect the key for the new PO box