Ensure that your movers know the way to the new address multimap.com

Ensure that there will be room for the lorry to park opposite entrance

Ensure that a vital supplies box travels first/tea/kettle/snacks/loo rolls

Ensure that garage/garden/outside items are ready to be loaded

Finalise arrangements for pets

Finish washing things ready for disconnecting appliances

Break down/disassemble bookcases/anything that can be easily ‘flat packed’

Take down and pack away curtains/blinds that you have agreed to take

Empty fridge/defrost freezer leaving just last minute supplies

Label relevant keys ready for the last day

Plan what to do with jewelry/cash/credit cards/chequebooks/savings books

Disconnect appliances/hi-fi/TV-videos/ and make safe for moving

Keep cleaning things back to the end. Required at both ends!

Confirm arrangements for telephone transfer if not already done. Check with BT

Arrange old sheets/dustsheets for access on wet day/through garden

Make labels for rooms in new house, to correspond with labels on boxes