Moving into Minton – Part 2

Of all the stuff in our Rivervale home that we discovered we had tons of unused of, it was cutlery. We’ve stuck with using cheapo Homeproud forks, spoons etc. for all the years we’ve been staying at our old home – and it was only when we were moving out, did we discover we had been given boxes of this tableware, a good portion of them decent quality WMF cutlery too. And to top it all, our new home gift courtesy of The Minton developer was another box of WMF cutlery. Ling spent almost the entire night and early morning of our Moving day sorting all of them out and packing them into boxes, managing just 2 hours of sleep that night – I managed a bit more as I was designate vehicle driver on Moving day LOL.

We engaged a moving company operating out of Tampines as our home relocation company as they came recommended from one of our neighbors. With our Move completed, our experience with them has been for the most part positive with one annoyance.

On the positive end of things, the company was:

Environmentally responsible. Important for us. They use recyclable boxes, and are loaned to you, and you return them after the move. Side benefit that we didn’t have to worry about what to do with empty boxes, and we’re not contributing to the cardboard clutter lift lobbies.

Very quick with clockwork precision. They arrived before the appointed time, had their smoke/energy break, began work at 0900 hrs sharp, all done with the move at 1015 hrs.

Friendly movers. Chatted with them and made silly jokes all round.

Competitively priced, though there are cheaper Movers around.

Reasonably careful in our move. The only damage we had were minor bumps to the dryer when it was stacked on top of our washer, but it was an old dryer, so we weren’t bothered.

On the other hand:

We were told on the day of our moving that an additional charge was going to be necessary on top of the already agreed price as the management office at Minton had recently disallowed trucks to drive past the Badminton Dome and nearer to the lobbies. This was an important security improvement that we are glad for, as some of the early units doing bulk delivery stopped perilously close to the children’s water play areas. But we were displeased with the Mover dropping this additional charge on top of the agreed-upon quotation.

We paid for the additional charge nonetheless, and followed-up with a Feedback to the Mover today. After some investigation, the Mover got back to us to say that they are refunding the charge as slightly longer push recently instituted at Minton does not apply to us. That was a good resolution. Hooray!