Bankview Movers, Calgary

A third of the work Bankview produces is this: two movers, one truck and a median of 3.75 hours on site, with half of the 21 completed at this size running between 2.5 and 5 hours and costing between $376 and $835. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen worth of boxes. Almost all of it comes out through a building door, so the elevator window is the single thing most likely to move a job from the bottom of that band toward the top.

Still two movers and one truck, and the median day runs 4.25 hours on site. The extra half hour over a one-bedroom is a second bedroom of furniture and boxes. Half of the 17 completed at this size finished between 3.5 and 5.25 hours and cost between $508 and $1,070, the tightest band on this page. That predictability is what an apartment or condo move gives you: the contents vary less than the route out of the building does.

Three movers, one truck and a median of 6 hours on site: a three-bedroom in Bankview is a full working day and a small share of the work here. The five completed at this size are remarkably consistent: half of them between 5.5 and 6.5 hours, and between $1,207 and $1,327. But five jobs is a short list, so read that narrowness as a feature of the sample rather than as a promise.

A four-bedroom-plus house move across the southwest Calgary communities runs three movers, one truck and a median of 8 hours on site, with half of the 64 jobs at this size falling between 4.19 and 10.19 hours and between $873 and $3,011. Bankview has fewer than five of its own this big, so those figures describe the wider set rather than the community. It is the widest band on the page: at this size the day depends on how much is packed before the crew arrives.