Moving day: how will the packers pack?

[etoiledemer]

We're completing our sale next week and using Pickfords to pack and move our stuff but not unpack. We live in a fairly small three-bed so it's all happening in one day.

Our current house was pristine when we moved in and I was always really grateful to our sellers for that and want to do the same for our buyers. Will I be able to clean around the packers? I'd like to think they will pack one room into the lorry and then move to the next room leaving me to clean the first room. Will it be like that or will me and my mop be in their way?

Yes, they have surveyed and yes that's the timeframe for packing up. They are not starting the day before . We had surveys by three different large removal firms and they all had the sale move plan. On the plus side, we don't have a garage, loft or shed and are fairly clutter free.

Good idea about deep cleaning integrated appliances in advance. We're not leaving any curtains but hadn't intended to take hooks off walls and fill holes nor to clean windows (they are reasonably clean anyway). Do most people do this?

They do pack at the speed of lightening - I have never seen anything like it.

But they pack what they see. If a bin has rubbish in it they will pack the bin, rubbish and all.

No, no-one fills holes etc.

Yes they do pack everything. I had literally just got back from 2 week work trip when ours came, at one point they came in with a half eaten mars bar they'd found asking me what to dowith it! Yes to being super quick too, ours was definitely less than 3 hours for 4 bed house and garage choc full of stuff too!

Maybe it's just me then filling in holes, didn't want to worry you
I'm pretty sure our sales contract said we had to make good any holes we left. We had a lounge cupboard and a big mirror in dining room screwed to the walls and took some of the curtain rails that we knew we could reuse and that they fitted in the new house. The people who bought the house knocked us down a bit and we had spent a lot of money and effort putting stuff up two years previously so it was all fairly new. We did leave all the towel rails and loo roll holders though!
This all left quite a few holes in the walls and as it was a two year old newly built house they were very obvious so I filled, sanded and painted them before we left.
As I said we had three weeks with both houses so had time to do it.