Moving home is much easier when you know what needs to happen and when. Whether you’re moving locally, relocating across the UK, or planning an international move, a clear moving home checklist can help you stay organised and reduce last-minute stress.
At Anglo French Removals, we support UK, France, Switzerland, and international relocations. From our experience, the smoothest moves are usually the ones planned in clear stages.
Start by deciding what you want to take with you. Moving home is a good opportunity to sort through furniture, clothes, paperwork, and household items before anything is packed.
Before moving day, you should:
Confirm your moving date
Book your removal company
Decide what to keep, sell, donate, or store
Arrange packing materials or professional removal packing solutions
Notify utility providers and update addresses
Create an inventory of important items
Organise storage if your dates don’t line up
Check parking and access at both properties
If you’re moving abroad, you’ll also need to think about customs paperwork, passports, visas, and delivery timelines. These can take longer than expected, so it’s best to start early.
Moving day can feel busy, but preparation makes a big difference.
Keep essential items separate so they don’t get packed by mistake. This might include medication, chargers, passports, keys, paperwork, toiletries, snacks, and a change of clothes.
On moving day:
Be available to answer questions
Keep important documents with you
Check each room before leaving
Take meter readings
Make sure fragile items are clearly marked
Confirm delivery details with your removals team
If your belongings are going into storage, check that everything is labelled clearly and that any items you may need soon are easy to identify.
Once you arrive, focus first on the essentials. You don’t need to unpack everything immediately.
After moving in, you should:
Check that major items have arrived safely
Report any issues promptly
Set up utilities and internet
Update your address with banks, insurers, and official bodies
Register with local services if needed
Start unpacking room by room
Keep packing materials aside for recycling or reuse
If you’ve moved internationally, there may be extra steps such as registering locally, setting up healthcare, or arranging onward delivery of stored items.
A good moving home checklist doesn’t just help you remember tasks; it helps you make better decisions. You can avoid rushed packing, missed paperwork, storage problems, and avoidable delays.
At Anglo French Removals, we help customers manage packing, removals, storage, and transport as part of one organised process. Whether you’re moving a full household, using storage between properties, or relocating abroad, our team can help you plan each stage with confidence.
Ideally, start several weeks before your move. For international moves, it’s best to begin planning several months ahead.
Pack essentials last, including medication, chargers, documents, toiletries, keys, and anything you’ll need on moving day.
Storage can be useful if your moving dates don’t line up, your new home isn’t ready, or you want to move in stages.
Yes. We offer professional packing services and can also provide packing materials if you prefer to pack yourself.
Just a quick message to say thanks for the safe delivery of my furniture from Charente, France to London - the coordination was great as was the care, I really appreciated it, especially the safe delivery of the grandfather clock and rocking horse, which were my grandmother's, and I was worried about! So - a big thank you - I will happily recommend you.
Vicky Edwards, Charente
Dear Mark
We just wanted to say thank you for such a brilliant and seamless service. You will remember that your quotation came in at about 50% cheaper than the two bigger companies and obviously we were worried that would reflect in the service.
From your response time, to the lovely people we chatted to in Maidstone with our mutiple questions, letting us add to our load at no extra charge, to yesterday's experience when Nino and his mate arrived, everything has been quite brilliant.
They called us an hour before arrival and were both so cheery and obliging despite their obvious long drive and need to get to the next pick up. We had two different locations for our furniture plus we changed our minds a couple of times and literally nothing was too much trouble - Nino's manipulation of that giant blue monster around the tiny farm lanes was quite breathtaking!
Great job! Please thank your team.
Best regards
Heather and David, Trèbes
Dear Mark and Stephanie,
I would like to let you know what an excellent job Rob and Jake did this afternoon. It was not an easy place to which to get their lorry and they had to carry things down to the front gate. But nothing phased them and they remained cheerful and professional. I will unhesitatingly recommend your firm to anyone needing transport to or from the UK.
With many thanks for your help.
Rosemary Barrow, Essex
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