Arbour Lake Movers, Calgary

Across the northwest Calgary communities around Arbour Lake, a one-bedroom apartment or condo move runs 3.5 hours on site at the median with two movers and one truck, and half of the 184 jobs behind that figure finished between 2.5 and 5.25 hours. Half cost between $441 and $887. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes; where a job lands inside the band is mostly access: stairs, a lift, and how far the truck has to park from the door.

Two movers, one truck and a median of 5.25 hours on site: this is the tightest band on the page, with half of the 7 two-bedroom moves in Arbour Lake finishing between 5.13 and 5.88 hours and costing between $800 and $1,163. That consistency is what a run of similar homes produces. It is a full afternoon rather than a morning, covering two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and in most homes here a set of stairs between the rooms and the truck.

At three bedrooms the crew goes to three movers, and the median day stretches to 7.38 hours on site; half of the 6 at this size ran between 5.19 and 8.63 hours. Half cost between $1,125 and $1,908, a much wider band than at two bedrooms, because at this size the garage and the basement are as much of the job as the bedrooms are. A walkthrough before the date is what tells you which half of that band you are in.

A four-bedroom-plus move across the northwest Calgary communities runs three movers, one truck and a median of 7 hours on site, with half of the 63 jobs at this size falling between 5.5 and 9.75 hours and between $1,085 and $2,513. Arbour Lake has fewer than five of its own this big, so those figures describe the wider set rather than the community. The hourly rate is the same one a one-bedroom is billed at; the day is long because a full house is long.