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Home > How to Make Your New Home Ready For Your Family to Move In

How to Make Your New Home Ready For Your Family to Move In

Written by:  Jamie

Owning a home is an exciting thing. It does not matter if you are building it from scratch or you are buying an already existing home. At the end of the day, the house will become your home where you will make tons of memories. You would definitely want your family to enjoy their stay, starting from the first day.

You, therefore, need to ensure that the house is in perfect shape before you introduce it to your family. By ideal shape, it means that everything is working as it should and everything is in order. In that effort, especially if you just bought the house, you should do the following things.

  1. Change the locks

This does not have to mean that the previous owners were criminals or will come after you. No. But you might want to ensure that your new place is secure. The first step towards that is changing the locks. You do not know the person who had access to the house and if they can still access it.

  1. Check for leaks

This might be the perfect time for you to reach out to Drain Rescue Plumbers to come and do some maintenance checks. Plumbing issues are not uncommon, but it is definitely not something you might want to deal with the first week of your stay.

With that, you need to ensure that the facets are in place, the water pressure is okay, and your toilet is also running the way it is supposed to.

  1. Update your address

This is usually the last thing in the mind of most folks. They get caught up in the excitement, which is called for, and forget that they still need to receive emails, and also have your credit cards updated. Now that you have your brand new home, you need to get rid of the old address.

  1. Change your toilet seat

Your new home will not feel like it is yours if you do not change the toilet seat. It is as simple as that.

  1. Have it cleaned

This is the day that you will be showing your family their new place. You cannot afford to take them to a dusty home with debris from fixtures all over the place. This is the day to toast and not battle dust. You can even hire cleaning services to make the home ready for inhabitation.

  1. Fix the landscape lights

To add some life to your landscape and also ensure that your kids get the steps right in the night, you need to ensure that it is well lit. Concentrate on the corners in your yard that are usually hard to see. You can also use lights to help people distinguish the flowerbed from the pavement to keep your plants safe.

Once you have all that in order, your home should be ready for an introduction to its new inhabitants. Congratulations on your new home!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apr 24, 2016Jamie
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