A sound piece of advice

[Quiney]

If you're thinking of moving house - DON'T

We move tomorrow, we've been at the 'putting things in boxes and carting the crap to the tip' for the past two weeks!

Now, those guys at the tip - recycling they call it.
No matter what you take they can find a use for it.

Box of assorted Barbie odds and ends, left shoes, Kens head, spangly frock - We'll have that.
Two old dining chairs that I re-glued together hindreds of times - Ahh just what we wanted.
3 filthy old brollies (give-aways from my old corporate days) - Hey, they could be useful

I tell you, they can even put Great Uncle Bulgaria from the Wombles to shame.

So many visits we;ve been invited to the staff party and Sandra has put them all on the Christmas card list.


We, the big wagon arrives at 8am tomorrow, hopefully the inner workings of the money transfer system will run smoothly and we will be able to get access to the new house sometime during the afternoon (we're 4th in the chain and they're all moving on the same day)

So if I'm not heard of again, then you will know that I got carted-off in the removal van!


Now did I pack the whisky???

 

[Scalesy]

Best of luck M8 :beer:

I cant wait to move house, thats mainly coz I will be starting again and should have room for all my crap plus bike and cars. And a decent size telly!

 

[derek kelly]

Hope it goes better for you than when we moved to Netherton,friday December 13 2002, it was the time of the petrol strike luckily it was back to normal when we came to move, the guy moving into our house had two lorries parked at the bottom of my drive from ten in the morning, kept coming up asking what the delay was, turned out his solicitor had not released the money, estate agents wouldn't give us the keys even though the house we were moving to was empty, we eventually got the keys at 4pm, and were still moving stuff in at 2am, thankfully everything went a bit smoother when we moved to Barnsley two years later.
good luck and enjoy your new home.

 

[Gatso shy]

Done that..........

turned out his solicitor had not released the money, estate agents wouldn't give us the keys even though the house we were moving to was empty, we eventually got the keys at 4pm, and were still moving stuff in at 2am, .

I had that one during my last move,

monies never moved till next day......( cos bottom of chain )

then people above me sent bill,......over the nxt 18 month's

the saga ran on, with me eventually ?1800 out of pocket,

bloody solicitors again......... :xm

 

[Jaws]

Ian, that is normal mate as some folk have huge bridging loans..
You should simply have passed it on to the next one down the chain..
Eventually all pay all the lolly cept the last ones who caused the grief in the first place

BTW, lucky u dont live in Norfolk Quiney
The tips only allow you one visit a day and if you have DIY stuff it can take WEEKS to get rid of it all.
For instance, if you fitted new doors on your kitchen cupboards, all you would be allowed to dispose of is ONE door a day, for larger stuff it is one item PER WEEK !!!!

Now remember where I live.. middle of one of th elargest wooded areas in Europe.. It is quiet, beautiful, and peaceful.

It is now full of fly tipped crap thanks entirely to the miopic views of the councils..

 

[Hornblower]

Derek you recon you got it bad when we moved the bloke buying our house turned up at our solicitors an the friday with the cash they made him pay it into the bank coz they cant take that much cash (money laundering) and the bank lost it! Everybody had to unpack the vans and it took four days to find it again, we eventualy were able to move at 4pm on tuesday so a mate and I got a transit and a trailer behind our car and did it our selves coz we couldnt get anyone else to do it for us at such short notice. We finished and unhitched the trailer at 5:30 am on wednesday and I had just enough time to go have a shower and then jump in the car and drive to dover for the 11:00 am boat to france and then drive to where we were staying. Iwas knackered to say the least. Hope yours is a bit smoother Quiney.

 

[ianrobbo1]

John, hope youve remembered which box the kettle is in!! been there done that!!

 

[Sam]

If you're thinking of moving house - DON'T

Yikes!

We're putting our house on the market in the Spring. First house move in 16 years.

Made a start on the loft today, and did the first run to the tip. In for the long-haul, I guess. :h

 

[Punchy]

We moved 6 years ago the 120 miles down to Anglesey. We had been in the previous house 27 years.... did we have some ferkin crap.... enough to fill a small land fill site.
Solicitors DONT make it easy the deeds aren't exchanged, apparently, until the morning of the sale.

Pickfords however were brilliant and arrived with the biggest furniture van I've ever seen at 8am in the morning. By 2pm there was a bit of muttering amongst the guys..... we're not going to fit........... how many?.... three...... better phone the boss....... motorbikes...

"WHAT you don't have enough room fer my bikes... you can piss right off I'm not moving without me bikes."
No problem Roy we just get another van its the boss's fault he did the estimate... yep another ferkin big van just for the bikes.. now thats what I call service.

 

[Zoffo]

I was chucked out of my last gaff by the ex's solicitor. For 3 years of marriage, during which the lazy bitch didn't do a days work, I ended up having to sell up and the only thing I could afford to buy was a terraced house behind a bleeding gas works coz of the house prices. That move was soul destroying, which is why I said fook it and went out and bought my Bird

Bette than getting rat-arsed every night which is wot I was doing. Moved from a 14 room country pile over looking the fells to a 2 up 2 down so there was some pile of stuff that had to go and with so little notice it wall went to the dump. They must have thought it was Christmas (which it was actually). Moved the rest in a Sherpa van. Worst bit was my daughter (from first marriage) finally breaking down in tears in her new (tiny) bedroom after putting a brave face on all day.

:violin: Yeah I know

 

[Quiney]

BTW, lucky u dont live in Norfolk Quiney
The tips only allow you one visit a day and if you have DIY stuff it can take WEEKS to get rid of it all.
For instance, if you fitted new doors on your kitchen cupboards, all you would be allowed to dispose of is ONE door a day, for larger stuff it is one item PER WEEK !!!!

Now remember where I live.. middle of one of th elargest wooded areas in Europe.. It is quiet, beautiful, and peaceful.

It is now full of fly tipped crap thanks entirely to the miopic views of the councils..

Bloody hell John, at that rate it would have taken us years to dump it all the crap. Some days we made about a dozen runs (it's only half a mile away)

Crazy council rules though - I can't use my van cos that then becomes commercial waste (different trip - if its crap its crap :dunno: ) even though it says curtains & blinds on the side of the van and we were hauling garden rubbish, old furniture, general household rubbish. Instead we have to use the CRV which has a silly split tail-gate and get it shit-up!