Check availability early enough to avoid moving into a disconnected home.
Move-In Checklist
Keys soon? Work through the move.
A practical checklist of the things to arrange, people to tell and places to find around your new home. It is not a live comparison service.
1 · Set up your home
Get the essentials working.
Know the existing supplier, meter details and what you need to do at handover.
Check when buildings and contents cover should begin for your purchase.
Use your WikiHomeSpec verdicts to decide what belongs with the builder and what belongs elsewhere.
List what is included, what you already own and what needs delivered after completion.
Plan larger deliveries around access, flooring and the actual handover date.
Optional provider links
2 · Address & admin
Move once. Tell everyone.
Start with the official tasks, then work through your own banks, pensions, employer, insurers and subscriptions.
Royal Mail redirectionRedirect post to your new address →
Driving licenceUpdate your address with DVLA →
Vehicle V5CUpdate the registered keeper address →
Electoral registerRegister at your new address →
Council & council taxFind your local authority →
HMRCTell HMRC about an address change →
Also remember: banks & cards · pensions & investments · employer · life/car/pet insurance · subscriptions · deliveries · clubs & memberships.
3 · Local essentials
What is around your new home?
Use the first half of the postcode. WikiHomeSpec does not need your street address for this.
Independent first
Useful intent, not paid influence.
WikiHomeSpec decides first. The checklist can then recognise that you may need broadband, insurance, flooring or another service. An advertiser can only appear after that need exists; it cannot pay to change the verdict that created it.
Independent decision→Useful next step→Optional provider