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Useful Moving Checklist for Moving to or from Vancouver BC

Are you getting ready to move in Vancouver, BC or elsewhere in Canada? Here’s a useful moving checklist to save you some time and headache.

1 to 2 months before your moving day:

  • Call Viktoria Professional Movers Vancouver for a free in-home moving estimate
  • Get packing supplies if you are packing yourself
  • Make any necessary travel arrangements
  • Have a garage sale
  • Obtain medical and dental records
  • Ask your doctor and dentist for referrals and transfer prescriptions
  • Transfer your memberships
  • Fill out change of address forms
  • Record serial numbers of electronic equipment, if possible take pictures or video tape of your belongings
  • Start a moving expenses log, as some of your expenses may be tax deductible

2 to 4 weeks before your moving day:

  • Reserve the service elevator if moving from an apartment in Vancouver
  • Transfer your newspaper and magazine subscriptions to your new address in Vancouver or elsewhere in Canada or discontinue delivery
  • Switch utility services to your new address – inform telephone, cable, hydro companies of your move
  • Confirm travel reservations if necessary
  • Check the contents of your safe-deposit box. Pack and carry all valuables such as jewelry, insurance policies, legal documents and important collections with you
  • Clean or arrange for a cleaning service to clean your home
  • Prepare your children for the move by encouraging them to prepare their own special box with toys, games and snacks for the trip
  • Start packing (if packing yourself)
  • Number all of your boxes, label each box according to its contents, specially mark fragile contents and keep an inventory list

A few days before your moving day:

  • Collect house keys and arrange to leave them with the new owners, your real estate agent or landlord
  • Disconnect your appliances
  • Double check all closets, shelves, your garage, etc. to be sure they are empty
  • Finish packing

On your moving day:

  • Ensure your Vancouver moving company have all your destination details, exchange phone numbers and have your cell phone with you in case you need to contact your movers, etc.
  • Walk through your home with the crew to survey the work to be done and make sure your instructions/wishes are clearly understood
  • Make sure you shut off all appliances
  • Assist your Vancouver moving company by ensuring that items are delivered to the correct room
  • Carry important documents, currency and jewelry yourself
  • Complete a last minute check of all rooms and closets

 

About our Company

Viktoria Professional Movers Vancouver is a professional moving company operating out of Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, providing high quality local and long distance moving services throughout Vancouver BC and across Canada. Thanks to our country-wide network we are also able to service our clients’ long distance moving needs throughout Canada. By helping to educate our clients on topics that can help them plan and execute a successful move, we are fulfilling our directive of taking the stigma out of hiring professional movers, and helping to make the moving process a stress free experience overall. To hear first-hand about our high quality moving services, please visit Homestars page where you can read reviews on our company submitted by many of our satisfied customers.

Call Viktoria Professional Movers Vancouver (604) 628-6543 or Toll Free: 1 (877) 399-1315 for a FREE Consultation in regards to your residential or office moving, packing and storage needs in Vancouver and British Columbia.

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