Moving house checklist: what to do, week by week.
One of the situations people bring to Atlas. A move is booked and a hundred small things depend on the date. The checklist below is free to use whether or not you ever open Atlas.
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A move is not a hard problem, it is a large one, and almost everything on it is tied to a date. This is the order the work usually falls in — the things with lead times first, then the notifying, then the week itself, then the short list that matters once you are in.
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Six weeks out — the things with lead times
These are the items that sell out, need notice, or cost more the later you leave them.
Three weeks out — who has to be told
Each of these is small on its own. Forgotten, several of them cost money or cut something off.
The week of the move
Keep this short. Everything that could be done earlier should already be done.
The first week in the new place
A short list that prevents the common regrets.
What to confirm with your landlord, solicitor or council
Notice periods, deposit rules, completion dates and local registration requirements differ everywhere, and a general checklist cannot tell you yours. Confirm dates and obligations in writing with whoever holds the contract. Nothing here is legal advice.
Where Atlas carries it
A move is thirty small deadlines, each one owned by somebody else, spread over six weeks when you are also working and living normally.
That is what Atlas is for. You describe the situation in your own words, hand it whatever you already have, and it keeps the pieces in order, remembers what you decided, and tells you what is next. Atlas informs. You decide.
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