Checklist for relocation

[Baz00ka]

Bro/Sis,

 

I will be relocated to a new apartment, what are some of the core checklist for household; like PUB activation, etc.

 

Recommendation for contact on relevant services would be useful too.

 

So far, I have engaged Renovation contractor; Painting, Floor Varnishing, Fix cabinets, etc. Also the Air Con contractor to do servicing.

 

Maybe those who has experienced and perhaps had learned the lesson of some do's and don'ts would be a great sharing experience.

 

cheers

[GuiNNeSS]

Checklist on documentation you can do yourself:

 

1) NRIC/FIN/Immigrations/Embassy & Consulate (especially if you arent Singaporean)

2) Banks are generally notified when you change your NRIC addy, but if its an overseas bank, they have no access to Singapore's database.

3) Internet & phone providers

4) You already mentioned PUB/Singapore Power/Town Council/Season parking/Vehicle Entry (Check with your new apartment's Managing Agents.)

5) Clubs/Schools/Work Place & any insurance bodies

6)......can't think of much yet, since I am not fully awake at the work place.

[GuiNNeSS]

pack a roller luggage bag with the following:

 

Towels

Change of clothes and undies (2 to 3 sets depending on how fast you can sort and settle down in the new home before you have to dig thru your mass of stuff, but I will say it to be safer with 3 sets, including one set of your work clothes so you really wont be too rush if you cannot finish unpacking)

Spare change & Cash

Keys

A number bicycle chain lock if there is grills there, just to air out the place, and just in case you forgot your new keys when you go out buy lunch during the move.

Tolietries: at least the Johnson Baby Facial Wash which doubles well enough as shampoo, face & body wash.

Bottles of water & Travel mugs

Electric Hot water kettle

Plenty of Rags

Garbage Disposal Bags

Slippers. Plenty of them, since people who is helping you move will be borrowing them regularly, easier to move in and around with.

[GuiNNeSS]

And when you say new apartment, I take it that its possibly a condo. Check with the Property & security officers on site. Some have very strict rules about moving house during weekends.

[GuiNNeSS]

On your move day. These are essential to go first.

 

1) Standing Fans

2) Extension Multi sockets/plugs

3) Tool box, including scisssors, drill, screwdrivers

4) Your internet & wifi

5) Plenty of rags & used newspaper/magazines to smooth the movement of the furnitures

6) Enough muscles to lift, hold, carry, co-operate on the move.

7) Pails, for holding water, ice & beers.

[temp3r]

If you need moving services, please call me at 9839 5954 for quotation. Thank you

[Mechanic]

Check the most important place you will visit everyday, THE TOILET!!!!

 

Doing up the toilet is very IMPORTANT, going home and face a dirty broken down toilet turns me off, as if going to KPT public toilet.

 

Updating address of the bills sent to your old address.

[Baz00ka]

Thanks for the very detailed info, some of it is useful and I'm adding them into the checklist hehe

And thanks for the rest of the bro's input...

 

On your move day. These are essential to go first.

 

1) Standing Fans

2) Extension Multi sockets/plugs

3) Tool box, including scisssors, drill, screwdrivers

4) Your internet & wifi

5) Plenty of rags & used newspaper/magazines to smooth the movement of the furnitures

6) Enough muscles to lift, hold, carry, co-operate on the move.

7) Pails, for holding water, ice & beers.

[GuiNNeSS]

Does your place comes with a dryer for your clothes?

 

If not. You need to consider these items as first to buy:

 

1) Bamboo poles.

2) Plenty of hangers

3) Those clips for small items of laundry

4) dish washer and sponge

5) basic iron

6) Cheap ironing board from Japan No House or CKDept Store

7) Water spray bottle

 

Much as how you think you can handwash your clothes till you get a washing machine. Don't. You will be too tired to do laundry. But do search around for coin operated laundry machine and make sure you have huge canvas army kit bag to lug your laundry for washes. Throw in the Canvas bag for a wash too......but try not to stand around in your underwear. Unless you work for H& M......

5)

[Silent Hunter]

Don't forget toilet paper!

 

Will cry if moving to new neighbourhood, unfamilar with where the shops are and no toilet paper!

[nightsteed]

No toilet paper use water lor.

 

... VKitty sounds like "run-road" specialist.

[GuiNNeSS]

No toilet paper use water lor.

 

... VKitty sounds like "run-road" specialist.

 

LOL, Yah lor. Water cleans better!

 

I nowadays stop buying toliet papers, because soap, water & a towel does better job to keep backside clean and refreshed.

 

'Run Road' very often. Recent record: Move house 6 times within a 12 months period. this includes moving over temporary to USA & Thailand.

[nightsteed]

'Run Road' very often. Recent record: Move house 6 times within a 12 months period. this includes moving over temporary to USA & Thailand.

 

Sounds like you'd do better with a trailer... somehow attached to a bike?

[GuiNNeSS]

Sounds like you'd do better with a trailer... somehow attached to a bike?

 

Army Kit bags worked wonders so far.

 

So is rented storage space with aircon.

[haoKR]

get energy saving appliances like fridge,light bulb,heater

[nightsteed]

Army Kit bags worked wonders so far.

 

So is rented storage space with aircon.

 

Pack, move and unpack... rinse and repeat...

 

Admire your mobility, but definitely not something i wanna try.

[GuiNNeSS]

I am still expecting a move in August. Help my mother move. Another Purchase, renovate and move in end 2013. Hopfully, that will be my last, and I only need to consider renting and buying in Malaysia & Thailand Phuket as secondary homes.

[GuiNNeSS]

Sigh. Moving house. And my Mummy is lousy at packing.

 

Dont you just hate it. When things are so messy. You cant find a cup to drink water. The Fridge is still stuffed with perishables and the laundry is still slewed all around the place?

 

Not to mention the idiocracy to wear something unsuitable for work, go and twist the ankles and now I am the only one needing to work and return home to pack properly? I will also need to dismentle stuff and find ways to keep them together before and during the move?

[GuiNNeSS]

Geezz....I totally didnt update on this one.

 

So here's a story.

 

My mother has a friend, who has a nephew, who is said to own a moving company.

 

And just as I expected. She got that so called fella. And without coming to our place to gauge the items. he quoted my mother $200.

 

And sure enough. On that day, he showed up with two lorries (I saw them from upstairs my place because they were late. And on entering the flat, immidiately exclaims he wasnt aware it was so many. And so luckily he got an additional lorry now here, and the price is increased.

 

We tried to cancel them instead. I really find them dishonest and is really angry with my mother.

 

So in the end, mother wants to save face, got the guy to move one washing machine and one fridge. And the result is, the new washing machine wont work once its 'installed' at the new place.

 

I on the other hand, called for help and got another mover.

 

Now Mother is also supposed to help with the move, but somehow, with me in charge, she pretended to say she need to go to work. She left, and I completed the move.

 

Guess what, she showed up at the new place, smelling of alcohol. Apparently, she went karaoke with her friends.

 

She paid her $200/- and I paid off the rest of the amount to people who actually did the moving work.

 

And no more word from her regards to her 'trusted friend'. Except to say she got tell her 'friend' and the friend admitted that it was the nephew of a friend of a friend. And of course Mother do the bimboitic thing to cry that she 'didnt know mah'.