4 Essential Items for Your Moving Day Checklist
If not organized, moving day can get out of control, fast. With so much going on, it’s easy to let this important day become a frantic sprawl to complete a wide list of tasks. Allowing this to happen will only add more stress to an already stressful experience. By following these moving tips, you’ll be able to maintain control during this overwhelming process. Here are a four essential items that should be included on your move-in day checklist.
Set up Utilities
The last thing you want is to show up at your new home and not be able to turn on lights or use kitchen appliances. You’re going to want to shower and relax on your couch in front of the TV when everything is all said and done, so make sure your utilities are set up immediately.
Double Check to Make Sure Everything is Packed
How many times have you taken a vacation, only to find that you left your toothbrush or swimsuit back home? Believe it or not, the same thing happens with a handful of relocations. Before the truck arrives, do one last scan of your house to ensure you have everything you intend on taking with you.
Reserve a Space for the Moving Truck
If you live in a house with a driveway, this is as simple as making sure nobody in your household parks in that space. If you don’t have this luxury, find some cones, boxes or lawn chairs to block off an area near your home. This way, the walk to the truck won’t be so brutal.
Inspect Items upon Arrival
Once you’ve arrived at your new home with all of your belongings, unpack your boxes and inspect each item for any damages. If you’re working with a professional moving company, chances are all of your items will be just fine.
By sticking to this checklist, moving day will be more organized and less chaotic. To ensure yourself the most stress-free move imaginable, call upon our Sacramento moving company to assist you. Call Colonial Van & Storage or fill out our online form to receive your free quote today!
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For moving, it’s not noted anywhere on their website that certain things have to be stored/boxed up until the day before they “come” (put come in quotations as they in fact do not come that day but come a day or two later and don’t tell you till last minute) so now you have to go out and buy more boxes/bins (of note they charge differently for boxes and bins and what they classify as small, medium, or large) and then don’t tell you about this, so now it is becoming a much more expensive move. Date of delivery will change and the time of when it does come is never what they say, so make sure to leave essentially your week open and all day open because who knows when they’ll show up and then be ready for another charge for some bologna reason this company makes up.
Oh and the individuals you work with sound very friendly and helpful at first, but please note they will talk poorly about you the customer while you’re still on the phone. Thankfully all their conversations with you are “recorded” so if/when they ask me I will happily tell them to go listen to that conversation cause, I the customer, would like to hear their response to what they said about you while you are still on the phone with them… Again, terrible customer service!
When our stuff arrived, there were so many pieces of furniture and boxes damaged or broken. Like it was heartbreaking to see the legs snapped off one of our favorite tables, multiple holes in the back and sides of our furniture, our dishes that we wrapped up and placed in a plastic bin were broken with the bins and bin lids shattered to pieces, and so much filth on all of our furniture despite them “wrapping it up” (we literally have shoe prints on the bottom of our kitchen table… like how?!?!)!
Bottom line, awful company, please save your money and a frustrating headache and go elsewhere!
