You are moving soon and want to know what actually helps.
Be packed. Genuinely packed.
This is most of it. A crew arriving to a house that is finished loads quickly and calmly; a crew arriving to a house that is nearly finished spends the morning waiting, and every other part of the day is worse for it.
"Nearly packed" usually means the kitchen and the loft, which are the two slowest rooms in any house. Do those first rather than last.
Keep one bag with you
Not in the van. Documents, medication, chargers, a change of clothes, and whatever a small child or an animal cannot be without.
- Keys, documents, anything a solicitor might ask for.
- Medication, glasses, phone chargers, a battery pack.
- A change of clothes each, and towels.
- Kettle, mugs, tea, milk, a couple of spoons.
Label rooms, not contents
You do not need an inventory of every box. You need the crew to know which room each one is going into at the other end, because that is the only decision they make while carrying it.
Write the destination room on the top and one side. If a box genuinely needs opening first, mark it — but marking everything as important is the same as marking nothing.
Tell us the awkward things in advance
Not on the day. The wardrobe that was assembled in the room, the piano, the loft that nobody has emptied, the neighbour who parks across the drive.
None of these is a problem when it is known about at survey. All of them are a problem at eight in the morning. This is the entire reason a survey exists, and it takes a few minutes.
That is the list
There is no point six. Defrosting the freezer and taking a meter reading are worth doing and neither will affect how the move goes.