Do You Know How To Choose The Best Van For Your Move?

The removal van plays a major role for a smooth and trouble-free relocation, and that’s why you should choose carefully to get the best van for your move. That doesn’t mean you should stop at the first offer for the biggest van, or pick the cheapest or smallest van. It needs to be the perfect van and below you can find 4 basic steps you can follow to find it.

Step 1: Do some de-cluttering and sort all your belongings from the old house. Stroll through every room; check out the condition of every object, furniture piece or even carpet. There is no need to pay for more storage space and a bigger moving van only to move old cabinets and shelves, for example, and to decide that you will not use them for the new house. You’re not required to get started with the packing at this step. Just sort the items that you really want to take with you in one corner of the room or at least highlight these items in some way while they are still in their places. This is a key step in order to get a better idea of the approximate amount and size of your belongings.

Step 2: Start compiling the moving checklist, which will give you an even better overview of what’s to come. When you have all the big furnishings, appliances and small accessories organised in a checklist, you could easily pick the right removal boxes for the packing. You can postpone the packing itself, but it would be much more appropriate to measure the dimensions of the needed boxes, rather than the sizes of the individual objects.

Step 3: Find a company for your house removals. There are so many companies with such a wide range of services, vans and professional crews that finding the best one is usually not that easy. Start searching at least a month before the desired moving date or as soon as you know the size of your belongings. There are three main types of removal van hire services:

• Renting only a van and doing everything else yourself;
• Man and a van hire for small removals when, nevertheless, you need the assistance of a professional mover;
• Hiring a big moving crew with a bigger van or even a van with a trailer.

The recommended way of finding the perfect option is to make your own investigation of the companies in your region. Stroll through their sites, read all the information about their services, highlight in a list with some important notes, and one of the last steps is to fill their quote form by specifying your requirements. If you are moving on a budged, then a better idea would be to request quotes from numerous removal companies, compare them and choose the cheapest offer. Another great piece of advice is to ask your friends or colleagues to recommend you a company, which in some cases can save you a lot of time and efforts. If someone can recommend you an already trusted company, you can directly call the moving agent to discuss the details.

Step 4: Make an appointment with the moving company’s coordinator or call to discuss all further details of the move. At this step you should ask almost everything else that is not presented on the company’s site. For example – ask for professional advice about the amenities/specs of the needed van; whether the company can make discounts if you pay cash; when is the last chance to cancel your booking without paying extra fees; how much parking space you have to reserve for the van on moving day, etc.

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