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Moving with Children

Moving house is one of the most stressful things we go through in life (it’s in divorce level stress territory) and the stress of moving house can be multiplied when moving home with children. The need for moving home with your children varies massively too, often moving with your...

Moving Home whilst Pregnant

An expanding family is one of the biggest reasons our domestic customers choose to move house – with many customers choosing to put the house up for sale, and move to a bigger property – as soon as their loved one hears the good news. At Richardson Moving &...

Moving a Chandelier

If you have read the title of this blog post, and not smirked at the infamous Chandelier Scene from Only Fools and Horses – then you need to watch the video below, immediately! Thankfully, at Richardson Moving & Storage – we have developed an excellent strategy for moving chandeliers...

Tips for Moving Home with Cats

Moving home is one of the most stressful things we go through in life, it’s well known that the amount of stress is pretty equal to life events such as divorce. Of course, a move becomes that little bit more stressful if there are children and pets involved, especially...

Removals in the Health & Safety Industry

Removals in the Health & Safety Industry

It’s a given in the removals industry that we deal with some pretty heavy objects, which have to be transported in some pretty difficult to reach places. At Richardson Moving & Storage, we have transported everything from antiques, to Grand Pianos, to gravestones – so we have experience in...

What is the difference between Exchange and Completion in the UK

What is the difference between Exchange and Completion in the UK

There’s always plenty of mumbo jumbo and industry terminology used these days, especially in house moving and at Richardson Moving & Storage, we have seen plenty of customers – on move day, may we add – very confused about the moving process, and what happens when. One of the...

Moving House Checklist – The Essentials

Moving House Checklist – The Essentials

Moving house can be one of the most stressful events of your life, and as well as concentrating on uplifting your current life to a new address, there’s also a wide range of administrative tasks for you to think about, which can have a massive impact on your finances....

Ways to Save for a Mortgage Deposit

Ways to Save for a Mortgage Deposit

With property prices at an all time high, less young people owning their own home – and rental values almost as high as mortgages – there’s never been a trickier time to get on the property ladder. Anybody looking to get on the ladder, will understand how difficult it...

European Moving Checklist

European Moving Checklist

There’s over six million British nationals living abroad, living and working in places such as Sydney and Paris, or retiring in other expat hotspots such as the Costa del Sol. Whatever the reason for upping sticks and moving from the UK (commonly the weather) it’s essential that processes are...

The best time to move house, and the best time to put your house on the market

The best time to move house, and the best time to put your house on the market

This is a question we see asked a lot on the internet, and we have even been asked it by a few customers. The simple answer is, if you are in the position to choose when you move out of your house at all, then you are very lucky!...