New guide to moving home
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A NEW Moving Guide and Kits now available from Pickfords Removals, claim to provide the most comprehensive assistance ever offered to those moving home.
The free Guide covering home and overseas removals, weighs up various ways of moving and spells out possible pitfalls.
There are cost-cutting tips — from not moving unwanted items to choosing a "bargain" time of the year — and advice on how to obtain and assess estimates.
The cover and illustrations of the 12-page Home Moving Guide breaks fresh ground in transport marketing with reproductions of tapestries.
This innovation reflects the accepted view that moving house can create much family stress — hence the stress-relieving effect of the "homely" tapestry illustrations.
The removals planning kits contain a mass of helpful information: useful addreses in the new area: who to tell when you're moving; what to do on moving day, etc. And there is sensible advice on pets.
Health protection, exchange control rules, travel arrangements and preparation of goods for removal are among the subjects included in overseas kits. One leaflet even deals with world climate to help settlers plan their wardrobe.
Managing director designate, Mr Geoff Pygall, said that experience over the past 30 years showed, on average, one family in ten moving each year. He predicted that nearly two million households would make a change next year.
Top destination for overseas removals, amounting to around a quarter of a mil people, is Australia. So Africa and Canada are ec second, the EEC and neck and neck third, and r Zealand fourth.
The Pickfords new f1( Moving Guide is available from any Pickfords branch post free from Pickfords movals Ltd, 400 Great C bridge Road, Enfield, Mid sex.