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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!...

Thinking about relocation to the North East? Here’s our thoughts.

Thinking about relocation to the North East? Here’s our thoughts.

One of the nicest things about working in Removals is the people that we meet in our day to day operations. At Richardson Moving & Storage our time is split pretty equally in moving people either into, or from the North East of England – where we are based...

Downsizing Your Home: A Good Move?

Downsizing Your Home: A Good Move?

At Richardson Moving & Storage, we carry out moves all over the country – to and from homes of all different shapes and sizes. Whilst many of these moves are for families and couples making their way up the property ladder into bigger homes, more and more we are...

Moving home with your dog

Moving home with your dog

Here at Richardson Moving & Storage, we are a business of dog lovers and we more than understand that it’s not just humans which can find moving home stressful, it can certainly bring out a few weird behaviours in our pets too. Over the years, and within the thousands...