Subject: Household Goods Moving Counting Down [Print] Author: admin Time: 26-7-2011 08:48 Subject: Household Goods Moving Counting Down
EIGHT WEEKS BEFORE THE MOVE
□ Choose your mover
□ Check export/import regulation for your move
□ Check and ensure your passport is valid
□ Start to apply for necessary visa
□ Check export/import regulation for pets
□ Check that electrical goods will work in the country of your destination
SIX WEEKS BEFORE THE MOVE
□ Sort through basement, garage, loft, dispose of unwanted goods
□ Organization a ‘garage sale’
□ Arrange for transfer of school records
□ Transfer personal insurance records
□ Get bank account available in destination
FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THE MOVE
□ Confirm the packing date with Beijing Movers
□ Notify everyone of your change of address: post office, your solicitor, bank, credit card company, doctor, dentist, insurance company, schools, building society and relevant government bodies
□ Arrange for mail to be forwarded
□ Make your travel reservations for the trip
□ Prepare insurance valuation
□ Have rugs cleaned
TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE MOVE
□ Round up passports, birth/marriage certificates and other family documents
□ Decide which clothes travel with you
□ Return or retrieve any items on loan
□ Fulfill outstanding HR agreements
□ Complete outstanding credit agreements
□ Cancel all rental agreement
□ Cancel subscriptions to clubs and magazine
□ Collect travel cheque or local currency
□ Start running down stock of food and drink
□ Ask for final account from electrical, water and gas company
□ Obtain invoices for new purchases (for import customs formalities)
□ Organization storage
ONE WEEK BEFORE THE MOVE
□ Defrost refrigerator/freezer
□ Get rid of flammables(paint, gasoline), plants and any perishable food
□ Plan simple meals for moving day to avoid using appliances
□ Separate luggage items you need for your travel
□ Separate toys for your children during traveling
□ Ensure you have enough medication before you receive your goods
□ Finish packing all suitcases
□ Clean garden tools, bicycles and other garden equipment
□ Empty mower tanks
□ Arrange for mains services to be disconnected.
□ Arrange for someone to look after your children and pets on moving day
□ Obtain address of mover’s agent at destination
□ Advise your newsagent and milkman and pay their accounts
□ Empty lockers at school and work
□ Clean out and close your bank safety deposit box
□ Collect clothes from dry clean
□ Collect items in repair shop
□ Get all required customs paperwork ready for Beijing Movers
ONE DAY BEFORE THE MOVE
□ Disconnect, clean and dry refrigerator/freezer and other electrical appliances
□ Arrange with neighbors to leave sufficient packing space for the moving vehicle
□ Safekeep keys to trunks, cases, etc…
□ Ensure that all these documents are with you: passport, air tickets,
vaccination certificates, cash, jewellery, clothing & toys, driving
license, marriage certificate, dental records, medical records, bank
references, tenancy references, old utility bills and necessary
receipts, insurance details.
ON MOVING DAY
□ Arrange someone to look after your children and pets
□ Remain present during packing
□ Walk through your house with KMI packing supervisor and point out
requests and concerns
□ Confirm your destination contact details & delivery date with Beijing Mover
□ After packing, Beijing Movers' site supervisor will ask you to
complete a ‘Job Evaluation Report’.
□ Check all rooms, cupboards and walls to make sure nothings is left
behind before Beijing Movers packing crew leaves
□ Turn off water and lights, lock windows and doors
□ Check and sign the packing list
□ Hand over all customs documents to Beijing Movers
□ If at all possible, try not to arrange travel overseas on the same day
as the move as it will tend to add to the stress involved
UPON YOUR ARRIVAL IN DESTINATION
□ Build up contact with BeijingMover destination mover to facility all
necessary customs paperwork
□ Confirm delivery date/time and delivery address/access
ON THE DAY OF DELIVERY
□ Arrange someone to look after your children and pets
□ Remain present during delivery
□ Walk through your house with foreman of delivery crew and give him
the plan of furniture placing plan
□ Confirm all packages received
□ Check if there is any obvious damages when goods unloaded from
container
□ Sign on the packing list for receipt of goods
THE DAYS AFTER DELIVERY
□ Complete unpacking and check conditions of all unpacked goods
□ Report claim of insurance with 45 days after delivery (suggest as
quick as possible)
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