Beltline Movers, Calgary

This is what Beltline mostly does: 42% of the work here, on two movers and one truck, with a median of 3.5 hours on site. Half of the 186 completed at this size finished between 2.56 and 5 hours and cost between $421 and $787, a tight band resting on a large sample, so it is a genuine expectation rather than an indication. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen worth of boxes; the elevator window is what most often decides the hour.

Still two movers and one truck, and the median day stretches to 4.88 hours on site, roughly an hour and a half more than a one-bedroom, for a second bedroom of furniture and boxes. Half of the 98 completed at this size ran between 3.5 and 6.19 hours and cost between $591 and $1,175. At this size a second lift trip is usually needed, so a booked elevator is worth more to the total than anything else you can arrange.

Three-bedroom apartments are a small share of Beltline, 3% of the work here, and they behave oddly: three movers on the job but a median of only 3.5 hours on site, and a median cost of $768 that sits below the two-bedroom figure. A bigger crew on one level clears a flat quickly. Half of the 13 completed at this size cost between $365 and $1,188, a wide band on a short list, so the crew size matters more here than the midpoint does.

A four-bedroom-plus house move across the southwest Calgary communities runs three movers, one truck and a median of 8.25 hours on site, with half of the 61 jobs at this size falling between 4.5 and 10.75 hours and between $911 and $3,112. Beltline has fewer than five of its own this big, which is what an apartment community would predict, so these figures describe the wider set rather than this one. It is a full day at the same hourly rate every smaller job pays.