One or two months before:

• Contact our company, Bailly Movers and make an appointment with a commercial advisor
• Book the date of your move
• Where to rent a vehicle and alert your friends who will be available to help you
• Start packing boxes
• If you want to reserve parking spaces in order to move out and move in, ask the town hall to have its technical services put up signage
• Warn your neighbors. Beware of the fake movers who come the day before the D-Day and « quietly » move your belongings, to just end up disappearing with the truck. Easy for them to declare that they were wrong on the day they are caught in the act!

A week before:

• Remind your friends to set a meeting time for the move
• Arrange childcare and family pets
• Finish packing
• Take down everything that is on the wall, screwed, or nailed…
• Empty your fridge and freezer
• Go get the clothes given to the cleaners, developed photos, shoes left with the shoemaker…
• Take valuables to the bank, such as, your jewelry
• Notify the building superintendent of the date and time of your move
• Photocopy several times the access maps of your two addresses to distribute them to all the people coming to help you
• Also photocopy the furniture installation plan that you will give to the big guys

One or two days before:

• Unplug the refrigerator, freezer and other electrical appliances
• Drain everything that contains liquid
• Hang the drum of the washing machine
• Prepare business cards to give your number to the movers or friends that are present that day
• Keep enough to clean both homes, the old and the new one, but also the objects and furniture transported
• Stick labels on the doors of each room so that the movers can easily identify them: children’s room, parent’s room, dining room, office

Right after the move:

• Don’t forget to clean the old apartment or house
• Make the inventory of your old home if you rented it
• Turn off the water, gas and electricity
• Close the shutters
• Remove your name from your old mailbox and put it on the new one

During the following month:

• Do not forget to change your address on your registration card
• Also think about your papers