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5) Not being ready for
van on
day.
Communicating with Removal firms:-
1) Paying too much for a remover's own insurance cover. Get your own, it will be cheaper and more effective (for personal items). You may wish to take up a removers insurance, but don't accept heavy pressure. 2) Moving things you don't need and later throw away.
3) Booking a part-load...then changing
date so
remover's schedule collapses.
4) Not seeking
right size of firm, and when you do, not then phoning around sufficently to find one whose travel schedules coincide with yours:- Whereas large firms may be expensive,
smallest may or may not have enough enquiries to organise a part load.
5) Failing to consider or describe problems of access at either end, or failing to organise immediate access at
delivery end. Examples include narrow walled driveways, road repairs, known parking congeston, stopping for lunch when you've got
only keys(!)
You can read advice on small moves, packing and insurance, at www.student-movers-forum.com. Also listed are suitable small move/partload specialist removers.See:-removal companies.

The author has spent 25 years in various service industries, including the last 8 in the removals sector