Moving guides
Practical things: how to pack without breaking anything, how many boxes you really need, what's worth doing before moving day.
Guides · 23 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Packing for a move when you work full time
With a full-time job you have the hours but not the energy: choices go to the weekend, evenings to repetitive tasks, lunch breaks to phone calls.
Guides · 22 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Giving notice on a rented flat in Italy: the notice period and the letter
How many months' notice Italian law asks for, what to put in the letter, how to send it so the date can be proved, and what is left to do after.
Guides · 21 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
How to pack pots, pans and the pantry for a move
Empty the pantry three weeks ahead, carry opened food yourself, and pack pots clean and dry with the weight at the bottom.
Guides · 19 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Your building's rules and your move: lift, hours, building manager
A move goes through the entrance hall, stairs and lift, which are shared spaces. Where to find the building rules, what to look for, what to ask.
Guides · 18 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Buying plastic crates for a move or renting them: what happens afterwards
Crates you buy stay in your home after the move. What to check before buying them, counting the week after and not just moving day.
Guides · 17 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Moving house in winter: rain, cold and short days
In winter, moving day ends when it gets dark: how to count the hours of daylight, what to keep dry and what to get ready in your new home.
Guides · 16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Moving your internet line to your new home
Line transfer or new contract: what to check at the new address, when to ask, what leaving a contract costs and what to do if the provider is late.
Guides · 15 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
How to pack a computer, cables and accessories for a move
Back up your data first, then the desktop and the printer, then the cables one device at a time: packing a desk without losing any pieces.
Guides · 14 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
The transport-only move: the removal firm carries, you pack
You have booked a firm to carry and you are packing yourself: where your job ends and theirs begins, and how to be ready on the morning of loading.
Guides · 13 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Voltura or subentro: electricity and gas when you move house
How to tell whether your new home needs a voltura or a subentro, what to ask the supplier, how long it takes and what to do in the home you leave.
Guides · 12 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
How to pack a TV and other screens for a move
The TV travels wrapped and on its own, its small parts in a box: what to read in the manual, how to wrap it and where to put it in the van.
Guides · 11 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Your new home in autumn: the boiler, the radiators and switching the heating on
When you are allowed to turn the heating on, whose boiler it is if you rent, and what to check on the radiators before the first cold evening.
Guides · 10 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Where to find boxes for a move: three routes and what each one asks of you
Collected from shops, bought new or rented: three questions for choosing where your boxes come from before you start filling them.
Organisation · 25 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Moving at short notice: what to do in the first three days
When the date is two weeks away, the first three days go on the things that depend on other people. Packing comes later, in a set order.
Guides · 24 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
How to tell a well-made moving box before you fill it
Empty, they all look the same. Four tests to do with the box in your hands before the move: the bottom, the handholds, the lid and the load it takes.
Organisation · 23 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Moving as a student away from home: from one room to another without a car
A room in a shared flat, no car and a contract that ends at the end of the month: how a student living away from home can organise a move.
Organisation · 22 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
How to pack if you are moving in two stages
Overlapping keys, work not finished: how to split your boxes between the first trip and the second without sealing away the things you use.
Packing · 21 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
What never to put in a moving box
Open detergent, paint, documents, loose batteries: what should never go inside a moving box, how to spot it, and where it goes instead.
Guides · 20 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Moving out of a rented flat: how the handover works
The handover is not moving day: it is the inspection that decides your deposit. What to check in the contract, what to photograph and what to empty.
Organisation · 19 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Your first day in the new home: what to do tonight
The first day is not for unpacking everything, it is for making the place liveable for one night: what has to work before dark, and the order for the rest.
Guides · 18 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Appliances: what you need to know before you move them
Fridge, washing machine and oven get ready in the days before, not on the morning of the move: what to empty, what to lock and what to leave to a fitter.
Organisation · 17 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
How long does packing actually take
What slows packing down is not the number of boxes but the decisions: how to measure your own pace over half an hour, and where the estimate always breaks.
Guides · 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
How to protect a new floor on moving day
A newly laid floor gets ruined in a single day, and rarely by an impact: where to put the protection down and what to watch while everything comes in.
Guides · 15 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
How to handle a small office move
An office that moves has to be working again on Monday morning: how to put lines, archive and desks in the right order without stopping the work.
Guides · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Moving house in a building with no lift
With no lift the day is decided by the number of trips down the stairs, not by weight. How to cut them in the weeks before, and what to leave to a firm.
Guides · 13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Plants and moving house: how to move them without killing them
Plants are the one thing in your home that can die from the way you move it. What to do in the two weeks before, how they should travel, and the first days after.
Guides · 12 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
How to clear out your cellar before a move
The cellar is the one space you have to hand back empty on a fixed day: how to look inside it in time, what to decide, and in what order to carry it out.
Guides · 11 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
Changing your residence after a move: the deadlines you don't set
Twenty days to declare it, forty-five for the check, and a waste tax that does not follow you. The deadlines that start on the day you move.
Guides · 10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
The permit to park the van outside your door
The council issues the permit, but the time goes on the no parking signs, to be put up 72 hours before. How to ask, and how early to start.
Guides · 9 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
Moving in summer: what the heat does and how to work around it
In the heat the usable part of moving day gets shorter. How to choose your hours, what never to leave in the car and what to book before August.
Packing · 8 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
How to pack clothes without ironing everything again
Why creases set while the box sits still, which garments hang and which get rolled, and what to do in the first two hours after you arrive.
Guides · 7 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
What to do with the things you are not taking with you
How to decide what does not come with you, where each category should end up and how far ahead to start, since the decision slows you down more than the effort.
Organisation · 6 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
DIY move or removal company: how to decide
The five things that decide for you, what to look for in a quote, and when the middle way pays off: you pack the boxes, they do the carrying.
Guides · 5 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
Taking furniture apart and putting it back together: what is worth doing yourself
Which furniture is worth dismantling and which is not, how not to lose the screws, and why a screw in chipboard only holds well the first time.
Guides · 4 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
How to protect paintings and mirrors during a move
Why large glass breaks on its own, how to pack canvases and frames without marking them, and which way they go in the van.
Guides · 3 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
How to pack books without making the boxes impossible to lift
Books are heavier than they look: small boxes, spine down and boxes filled only halfway are how you move them without damaging them or hurting yourself.
Organisation · 3 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
Moving with pets: how to manage cats and dogs
What weighs on the cat is the new place, while the dog mostly picks up on your stress. How to prepare in the days before, the journey and the arrival.
Organisation · 1 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
How to organise a move with children
How to prepare children for a move, what to do on moving day and how to set up the new bedroom: timing, mistakes to avoid and what to expect afterwards.
Organisation · 30 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
Moving checklist: what to do, week by week
What to do a month before, two weeks before, the week of the move and on the day itself. Including the things people always find out about too late.
Guides · 28 Aug 2026 · 11 min read
How to pack dishes without breaking a single one
Why plates go in on their edge, the method step by step, the rule of weight at the bottom and the mistakes you pay for when unloading.
Guides · 26 Aug 2026 · 11 min read
How many boxes do you need for a move?
An estimate by floor area and number of people, plus the three mistakes that leave almost everyone short of boxes halfway through packing.
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