I moved house

I would love to say that the house move was incredibly well organised and that everything went smoothly, alas it was not to be.

I managed to pack the majority of my belongings into good quality packing boxes, marked most the boxes clearly and even bought FRAGILE tape to let the removalists know.

I had fed eleven horses three times a day, for eight days in a row leading up to the house move and was more exhausted than I realised.

The morning of the move the removalist turned up, in a 3 tonne pantec which was not what I was led to believe was going to be used for the move.  So even though I had spoken to the owner of the business and gave him a good run down on what furniture I had, the move had to be done in two trips which ended up costing me more than was quoted.

Luckily I had an amazing friend at the other end to direct where my furniture was going to go, and also to pull the removalists up when they were less than respectful with my furniture.

It wasn't until nearly three weeks later that I was able to assess everything and see exactly what had been damaged.  Yes that's right, I ended up with a few damaged items, due to their carelessness.  One lesson I've learnt is never ever go with a removalist company that offers to reduce the price for you etc.

My items damaged included:

my refrigerator (small dent on the side)
my tallboy (nasty chip at the back)
my washing machine (horrible scratch on it, that's gone through to the base)
my antique hall table (part of one of the dividers has been damaged)
one small glass photo frame (obviously the huge fluro orange sticker saying FRAGILE didn't stop them from placing a heavy box on top of the box marked FRAGILE).

I ended up getting refunded part of the money I paid them, and I'm letting it go at that.