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Guide · planningThe packing timeline, keyed to your date
Every move has one immovable number: the settlement or lease date. Work backwards from it and packing stops being a mountain; it becomes six small hills, each with a weekend attached.
Type it and every milestone below gets a real date. Nothing is sent anywhere; it's arithmetic, not a form.
The six milestones
Four weeks out: decide and declutter
Book the removalist, and walk the house with three labels in mind: coming, selling, going. Every piece that doesn't make the truck is an hour you don't pay for. Charities collect; kerbside cleanups need booking with the council.
Three weeks out: materials and the rarely-used rooms
Cartons, paper, tape, a marker that works. Start where nobody will miss things: the garage, the china you use twice a year, the bookshelf. Books go in small cartons; your back will thank you on the day.
Two weeks out: the logistics layer
Tower move? Book the lift and the dock now. House move? Confirm the truck can stand where you think it can. Redirect the mail, shift the utilities, tell the school if the school run is changing.
One week out: most rooms down
Everything but the kitchen, the bathroom and a suitcase per person. Label cartons by the room they're going to, not the room they left. Start the essentials carton: chargers, kettle, cups, scissors, a roll of toilet paper, the things you'll want in the first hour.
Two days out: the kitchen, down to the kettle
Pack the kitchen to the last saucepan and eat simply for two nights. If the fridge is travelling, run it down and defrost it the night before; a fridge that travels wet arrives smelling of regret.
Move day: keep three things out
Keys, phone, kettle. The crew handles the rest, and the essentials carton rides with you, not in the truck. If we're packing for you, this whole page compresses into a day or two and you skip straight to the kettle.
Rather hand the middle of this list to us? Packing runs on the same hourly crews as the move itself.
Book the crew that measures first
Tell us what's moving and where. We call you back, ask the questions that matter, and give you an honest read on crew, truck and hours before anything is booked.