Aspen Woods Movers, Calgary

Two movers and one truck, and a median of 5.5 hours on site. That is long for a one-bedroom, and the five jobs behind it are what a one-bedroom looks like in a community of houses: as often a suite or a part-home load inside a larger property as a compact apartment. Half of them ran between 4 and 6 hours and cost between $687 and $1,589. With a sample this short, the band is the more useful half of the figure.

Two movers, one truck and a median of 5.25 hours: a two-bedroom move in Aspen Woods is an afternoon of work rather than a morning. Half of the 7 completed at this size ran between 3.5 and 6.63 hours and cost between $688 and $1,345. The spread is access more than volume. What matters is how many stairs sit between the rooms and the front door, and how close the truck can park to it. An accurate list of what is coming is what keeps a job at the lower end.

At three bedrooms an Aspen Woods job goes to three movers and a median of 7.5 hours on site, with half of the 9 completed at this size running between 5.5 and 9 hours and costing between $1,170 and $2,307. That is a full working day. The garage and the basement are as much of the work as the bedrooms are, so a walkthrough before the date is what separates a job at the bottom of that band from one at the top.

Across the southwest Calgary communities a four-bedroom-plus move runs three movers, one truck and a median of 8 hours on site, with half of the 65 jobs at this size falling between 4.25 and 10.75 hours and between $882 and $3,112. Aspen Woods has fewer than five of its own this size, so those figures describe the wider set rather than the community. It is the widest band on the page, because a four-bedroom home can be half packed or not packed at all when the crew arrives.