Top Tips for Post-Removal Property Checklist

Once we’ve moved everything out of your house onto our vehicle, you’ll probably want to walk around and say a hopefully fond farewell. 

However, even at this stage, it’s important to run through a quick checklist as part of your house relocation, Christchurchor elsewhere. This one applies to owner-occupiers rather than tenants. 

1. Have you left everything behind that you should have? Remember, unless your sales contract specifically agreed it, you typically must not take anything with you that could be considered to be a ‘fixture or fitting’.

2. Have you switched off the electrical supply at source? Ditto for water and gas. If you’re asked by the new owners not to do so (e.g. leave the heating on a low level if it’s very cold) then make sure they confirm the request in writing. That’s to protect your liability interests should something go wrong between you leaving and the new owners taking possession (e.g. a leak).

3. Is your property, including the garden, reasonably clean and tidy? It’s rare but this can be an issue sometimes with property handovers, so look at things critically.

For more details, please visit - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/top-tips-for-post-removal-property-checklist/

When Neighbours and Friends can help with Household Removals

If you’ve entrusted us with your packing as well as the removal, you won’t need to worry about asking friends and family to help provide ‘labour’.

We’ll take care of everything that’s ‘heavy’. In fact, truth to tell, sometimes ‘too many hands’ can become almost more of a problem than a help. So, leave all that to us and relax!

Where neighbours, friends and wider family can be of assistance is in things such as keeping your children and pets out of your hair, making tea and perhaps doing a little cleaning (if we’re not doing it for you). That’ll allow you to concentrate on what’s important, such as liaising with solicitors or property agents etc.

If you’re doing your own packing and possibly even removal, be aware of a potential problem if you’re asking friends, neighbours and even family members to assist.  That’s the perennial issue of what happens if something goes wrong? For example, how will you react if your neighbour has just dropped a box containing some of your precious and fragile antiques? Read more
 http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/when-neighbours-and-friends-can-help-with-household-removals/

Moving Home from Rented Property – Your Obligations

When you move home, if you are renting the property you are vacating then your obligations to third parties are considerably different to those of an owner-occupier.

The specifics of what you will need to do may vary depending upon the country you live in and its individual laws and regulations. Even so, many of the following will typically be required and this may serve as a useful checklist.   

1. You will be obliged to provide your landlord or their agents with a notice covering your intention to terminate your rental agreement and that notice will need to be a minimum period of time before you depart. That notice period will usually be documented in your existing rental documentation.


2. You will need to notify all of the utility providers concerned that you will no longer be responsible for things such as water, gas, electric and telephone charges from the specified date and time and that you will be vacating the property.


3. Your rental contract probably obliges you to leave the property and its surroundings in the same condition you found them. What that means is you will either need to thoroughly clean the property once all of your furniture and possessions are out of it or pay someone to do that for you.  Many professional furniture removals companies will be able to offer such cleaning services.


For more details, please visit - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/moving-home-from-rented-property-your-obligations/

A Few Words about Postal Shipping

Strictly speaking, this isn’t our domain but it seemed appropriate to say a few words on the subject.

That’s because we sometimes hear of cases where this has ‘gone wrong’ for a client.

What can sometimes happen is that someone has an object that they’ve left with someone else (a family member perhaps) while they move home. Once in place, they ask for the object to be posted to them via recorded and insured postal services.

So far so good but if it arrives damaged, whether due to poor packing or perhaps more commonly poor postal handling, what can you do about it?

In our experience, there is frequent widespread confusion about just what “insured mail” really means.  Typically, the insurance you pay for ONLY covers you against either the total loss of your package in the mail OR it’s total destruction.

The former of these two is easy to prove. If your parcel has been lost or stolen then it’s gone and the insurance should pay up without question. Read more about postal shipping....... http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/a-few-words-about-postal-shipping/

Avoiding Fire Risks when Moving Home

Fire is an ever-present danger when lots of household items are densely packed together and contained within a relatively enclosed space, such as a transport vehicle.

At Total Care Removals, we respectfully request that our clients notify us in advance of any materials that might be deemed ‘hazardous’ including inflammable substances. The good news is that many modern materials are very flame-retardant but not all are.

So, if you’re thinking about doing you own packing for a household removal, here are a few things to watch out for.
1. Bar-b-que firelighters or fuel.


2. Highly volatile liquids such as petrol/gasoline – these can often be left unintentionally in
    things such as motorbikes and lawnmowers etc.


3. Gas matches or any other electronic sparking aid designed to get a fire going. Lighters
    (even those in classic lighter collections) are a danger here too.


4. Battery-powered heaters, hair tongs or electrical coils. If they’re accidentally switched on,
    issues might result. Read more  http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/avoiding-fire-risks-when-moving-home/

How to Avoid Fixtures and Fittings Disputes when Moving Home

                                                        

One thing that can usually be said about moving day and agreed by everyone is that you probably want to forget it as fast as possible once it’s done.

If you’re to achieve that, what you won’t want to find is that for days, weeks and months afterwards, you’re embroiled in legal disputes and squabbling over what you removed from your old property or what the ex-owners removed from your new home. Don’t underestimate how ‘touchy’ people can get over these things, even when small sums of money are involved.

What follows here is general advice because some of the issues can be legally complex and interpretations will differ from one situation to another and certainly from one country or state to another also. Don’t hesitate to contact a solicitor for precise definitions and a professional furniture removals company should also be able to offer advice.

Vacating a property you own

You’re allowed to take with you all of your personal possessions – but only those that are ‘movable’. Those items that are considered to be part and parcel of the property, being its structure or fixtures and fittings, cannot be removed as they will typically be deemed to have been sold to the new owners.

For more details, please visit - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/how-to-avoid-fixtures-and-fittings-disputes-when-moving-home/

Moving Home – Remember to Have Fun!

                                                            

In looking back through our recent blogs, we couldn’t help but notice how they’re largely full of sound advice of the ‘how to avoid problems or deal with them if they arise’ type.

That’s all well and good plus highly laudable – and we hope you find them useful. Even so, to put it bluntly, while they’re full of great tips, read together they’re hardly likely to encourage you to look forward to household removals!

So, we thought we’d redress the balance here a little and point out some facts based upon our extensive experience.

1. The vast majority of furniture and office removals go without a serious hitch and like clockwork. The biggest problem usually encountered is of the “oh, we’ve accidentally packed the sugar for the coffee” variety!

2. Particularly when you’re moving home, again in the vast majority of instances this is a great day and an exciting new beginning for one and all.

3. Yes, the day itself is tiring and it can be a little stressful even if everything is running perfectly but the fact is that many people actually see it as a major change in their life and welcome it accordingly. Read more http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/moving-home-remember-to-have-fun/                               

FAQs on Removal Insurance

                                                                         

We’re regularly asked questions on this one. So, we’d like to share some of them here.

Will your insurance cover me against all risks?

No. To explain:-

Our own standard insurance exists to cover our liabilities to you and the general public.  It will not cover you if, say, you need to ask us to put your load into storage at the last moment because your new property isn’t ready.

Your own household contents insurance may lapse the moment your possessions leave your home – unless you take our additional furniture removals insurance to cover them in transit etc.

Why won’t my household insurance cover my goods in transit?

We’re not qualified to say what your existing cover may or may not offer.  We can only say that based upon our experience, this is sometimes an issue. You should check it with your insurance provider.

For more details, please view - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/faqs-on-removal-insurance/

Involve your Landlord in your Move Planning

The vast majority of removals into or out of rented property go smoothly and without any hitches in terms of issues arising between tenants and landlords. 

Unfortunately though, there are exceptions and in our experience, these are more commonplace when leaving a property as opposed to when moving in. 
Those disputes tend to arise in a relatively small number of areas when vacating a property that somebody else owns:

• Inventory taking (including both ‘still present’ and condition disputes) 

• Cleanliness of the property 

• The state of the garden 

• Delays in landlords or property agents arriving on the day It may be that 

you have a ‘difficult’ landlord or just that, while everybody has behaved appropriately, there is simply a poor relationship in place with both parties not really trusting each other. These things can happen.

For more details, please view - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/involve-your-landlord-in-your-move-plann

A Reminder on Professional Office Moves

       

Although we have touched on this before, we make no apologies for issuing a few key points by way of a reminder about potential employee-related issues if you’re moving offices.

Through our extensive experience as professional office removals experts, we know that:

• Aspects of your employee liability cover may be at risk if you ask your employees to help with packing and moving items as part of an office move. 

• Depending upon the circumstances, you might be committing an offence if you ask staff to participate in activities that are outside of their usual duties and which are also potentially dangerous – particularly if you haven’t provided things like gloves, heavy shoes and perhaps hard-hats and other protective equipment. Carrying heavy objects up and down stairs is one such example and do be warned, the law takes this area seriously. 

For more details, please view - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/a-reminder-on-professional-office-moves/

In the last 10-15 years, the arrival of online selling and the huge growth in antique programmes on TV has raised awareness about the value of ordinary household items yet people are still just throwing them out.

What looks like junk to you just could have some value.

So, here are just some of the unlikely things that are selling right now and which you might have waiting to be thrown out as part of your house move.

Look out for:-  Old iron objects , Old 60s/70s gadgets and appliances , Garden furniture and ornaments , Old clothes etc.

For more details, please view -  http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-Tips-for-Finding-Treasures-When-Moving-House&id=9463019

Using a Tail-Lift Vehicle

We provide local Furniture Moving services across New Zealand from our branch and storage facilities in Christchurch and Auckland.  Both of our branches operate a fleet of specialist furniture moving trucks equipped with carpeted rails and furniture blankets for the protection of your furniture. We can help you with any furniture move, no matter if it’s locally or New Zealand wide, or. We have smaller trucks available for properties with difficult access or long driveways.

Our teams of furniture movers are highly trained, and we don’t have different teams for local, domestic or international moves – all of our customers receive quality service.

For more details , please view - http://www.christchurchremovals.co.nz/using-a-tail-lift-vehicle/