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6 min read · 2025-12-15

Moving House Checklist UK

A printable week-by-week checklist for moving home in the UK.

4 weeks before

  • Book your removals company
  • Notify your landlord or estate agent
  • Start decluttering
  • 2 weeks before

  • Redirect post (Royal Mail)
  • Update address with bank, DVLA, GP, insurers
  • Confirm school transfers if needed
  • 1 week before

  • Pack room by room
  • Cancel local subscriptions
  • Arrange childcare/pet care for moving day
  • Moving day

  • Take meter readings
  • Leave keys for incoming tenant/owner
  • Walk-through and lock up
  • After the move

  • Test smoke alarms
  • Locate stopcock and fusebox
  • Register with new GP and council tax
  • Need help with your move?

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