Moving house just yards down the road! WWYD?

[mistressploppy]

We're moving to a house literally 20 yards down our road! I just wondered if anyone else had done this and whether you used a moving company or not - and if not, how you did it! We obviously don't need a van!

(We're moving from a small 3 bed house so have a pretty average amount of stuff)

We did this when we sold our house and moved into a rented house for 6 months.

We paid several of dh's friends from the cricket club to come and carry everything round the corner. For the final things, we ran out of time and loaded them into a friend's horse box and drove them down the road! We're dead classy.

Not done this myself but helped a friend move a similar distance. We all piled in mob handed and shifted stuff by hand . We did have a sack truck for heavy boxes but most of the stuff was manhandled up the street .

Just gather a mob and make a party of it.

Just one thought though -this wasnt a one-in, one-out move .There was plenty of time to do it in and no one waiting in the wings for the empty house.

We moved down the road too (well it was a hill actually)! I remember wheeling a full clothes rail down the road and my DH 'driving' down the hill on an office chair with suitcase on his lap - the neighbours must have been seriously worried

We moved next door while we did up our home - got a good friend of husband to come and help. If I was moving further than that, even 20 yards, I'd get a porter's trolley.

Yes - I agree about the porter's trolley. We borrowed one to help us move the fridge and freezer. Unfortunately we managed to scratch the side of them both in the process

I did this, and did use a small van (I didn't have to pay to use it). It was actually v. helpful, I think the bit by bit approach can be very tiring when it comes to endless heavy boxes of books and kitchen stuff etc. It's great though being able to just walk to the new place with things like clothes which are easy to carry on hangers but a pain to pack and unpack properly.

When we mover from rented accommodation to our first 'bought' house it was just round the corner.

The majority of stuff was carried or moved by sack truck in a day as we roped in a few friends and took them to the pub afterwards.

The cats, however, I'm to admit that I bundled them into their cat basket and drove them a couple a miles around town before arriving at the new house. I thought it would stop them getting confused and going back to the old house!

- did it work Norbert?

I think it did, but that may be because they hardly ever ventured further than the back garden anyway.

In my defence this was pre-children so they were my PFBs

We moved from a rented house to buying one 10m from the back gate. Two sack trucks and a number of burly friends on a promise of curry and beer did the job

What is a "sack truck"?

I guess it's the same as a porters trolley - long vertical bit with handles, short horizontal bit, wheels at the right angle so you shove the short bit under the sack, tip back so it rests on the long bit, and wheel along

That's not a bad idea, Norbert, about the cats I mean.

For the moving of our inanimate possessions, I will start pitching the idea to my burliest mates [hgrin]