The 5 phases of a move and advice on guidelines to follow.

In this post we tell you about the 5 phases of a move and we give you advice on guidelines to follow when planning and organizing yours, so that you can do it with as little stress as possible, with the least wear and tear and at the best price.

And to finish, we present our Complete Moving Plan, for those who do not have time to take care of all these tasks. A plan specially designed for you, you do not have to do almost anything

Behind a whole move there is much more work than it seems at first glance. For this reason, in this post we will tell you about all the phases of a move and what is important in each of them.

1st Phase: Self-assessment, the most important of the phases of a move.

To carry out your move you will need to hire a company specialized in removals, but before doing so you must make a preliminary and approximate evaluation of what your service needs are. We believe that it is the most important because it is the one that will allow you to really know your needs and be the measure that allows you to organize everything else.

Perhaps you just need the local moving company NYC to take care of the transportation of all your furniture and belongings, taking care of the tasks of packing and disassembling furniture, curtains, cabinets, etc.; Or on the contrary, you want the moving company itself, through its specialized operators, to be in charge of these tasks.

Also, in this preliminary evaluation, you will have to get an approximate idea of ​​all the packages that you will have to transport, whether they are boxes, furniture, appliances, etc.; since this will be essential information that you must provide to the moving company so that they can prepare an estimate for you.

We advise you to write everything down in your diary, on your mobile or on your computer so that you have clear and available information when contacting the moving company. The clearer you are about exactly what you need, the easier it will be for the moving company to prepare a budget for you.

2nd Phase: Search for a moving company.

Once you are clear about what you will need and what tasks you will do on your own and which ones you will delegate to the moving company, it is time to start looking for one that will take care of your move.

It is important that you look for a serious company that has a proven track record and that also has the necessary means to make your move.

Stay away from those pseudo companies that only have a small van and where only 2 people work. Try to find a real company, with a real address, registered and for which you have references or can find references on the Internet.

Make sure that the company you are going to hire has the technical and human resources that your move needs. For example, if to remove the furniture from the home of origin or put it in the destination home you will need to do it through the windows that are on a third floor, then you must make sure that the company you have chosen has a furniture lifter to do it, otherwise your furniture and fixtures could be seriously damaged by the use of inappropriate techniques.

Try to have more than one moving services New York view because that way you can request more than one quote and compare between them; Only then will you have the appropriate information that will allow you to make a decision that is appropriate to your needs.

3rd Phase: Request budgets, study them, decide and contract.

Since you have chosen 2 or 3 companies that are capable of meeting your moving service needs, it is time to request a quote from them . We advise you to call or write an email to the chosen companies and explain to them what you need and for what dates.

Regardless of whether you have contacted the moving company by phone or email, it requires that you send you a written estimate in which you have all the details of your service proposal; Only then can you buy with each other and make your decision.

Do not forget that the cheapest budget is not better but the one that best suits your specific needs; so do not decide solely on price, since what is cheap can be expensive if what you finally get is not what you expected.

Hire the best moving company in NYC, so that you have time to organize all the tasks prior to the arrival of the day in which all your furniture and belongings will be moved from one place to another. Also, if you book in advance you are more likely to get a better price. You already know that rushing is not good and all the services that we contract urgently are more expensive than those that we have contracted calmly and with due advance.

4th Phase: Pack and pack all the moving goods.

If you have decided to take care of the packing and packaging of all your belongings and furniture, we recommend that you start with it at least 2 weeks before the scheduled date of the move. It is very normal that the time that all these tasks will require is underestimated and for this reason it is better to try to go with plenty of time and not just.

It is essential that before starting with the packing and packaging tasks you have bought enough boxes and abundant packing seal. Be careful with the size of the boxes, make sure they are not too big, especially if you are going to put very heavy things inside them, since someone will have to lift and stack it and if it is too big it will also usually end up being very difficult to carry.

Take advantage of the entire packing process to throw away all those things that you keep meaninglessly and that without realizing it accumulate, overflowing the cabinets and the storage room. Take this opportunity to clean up and think that everything you transport you will have after finding a place for it in the new destination; Besides, it doesn’t make sense to take something with you that you’re going to end up throwing away later. Also, if you fill your move with useless packages, you will end up paying more.

As you pack your things and close boxes, write on the outside what they have inside and, more importantly, in which room of the destination address they should be deposited.

Keep all the boxes organized so that they are not a hindrance when carrying out all the other packing tasks that you will have to do, such as storing mirrors, plants, etc. You can find tips on how to organize the transport of this other type of things by reading our post How to prepare your most delicate objects for a move.

Make sure you leave in different or properly marked places those packages and boxes that you will take on your own and that will not go in the moving truck, so that your most delicate objects that you wanted to take in your car do not end up mistakenly confused with the rest of the packages.

5th Phase: The day of the move.

The day of the move usually starts very early, since the moving companies are very early risers but also because there are always things that we are missing and that day we get up early to finish with all those little details that we are missing.

Making a move is not an easy thing, so it will be a hard day with a lot of work if you are the one who stays there to manage everything. You have to arm yourself with patience and put a good face on bad weather. Take it as an experience that comes out of the routine and try to enjoy it by taking advantage of putting in order all those things that over time we accumulate without a clear meaning. Bad or bad a move is always a new beginning and you should see that as a positive opportunity for change.

To finish, we want to remind you that a move does not really end when all the things have been transferred from the origin address to the destination address, but rather another series of tasks associated with your move that you must do begins; It still remains to unpack all the boxes and objects that we have protected for their transfer, assemble all that furniture that we have had to disassemble to be able to move it from one place to another, etc.; but this is already something that you can take more calmly and solve it in the following days.

Complete Plan: for those who do not have time to move.

We have designed a Moving Plan designed for those who need to make a move but want to deal as little as possible with all the activities, often exhausting, that this process entails.

Visit our moving page and learn about our different Moving Plans. There you will find the details of our Complete Plan in which we take care of practically all the tasks of your move without you having to do anything more than the minimum.

Our professionals will take care of all the tasks of packaging, furniture disassembly, transfers, unpacking and assembly of furniture at destination, etc.

For more information, contact us and we will explain all the details of this service and you can arrange a visit so that one of our sales representatives can come to your home or office and can make an initial assessment of the needs of your move in order to to prepare a budget adapted to your specific needs.

Find out without commitment and let us take care of all the tasks related to your move, so that you do not have to do practically anything.