Cedarbrae Movers, Calgary

This card carries the southwest Calgary figure, drawn from 449 one-bedroom moves across the communities around Cedarbrae rather than this one alone. Two movers and one truck, a median of 3.75 hours on site, and half of those jobs running between 2.5 and 5 hours and costing between $417 and $881. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes; stairs, a lift and how far the truck can park from the door are what move a job inside that band.

The one card here drawn from Cedarbrae's own jobs, and it is the tightest band on the page: half of the seven two-bedroom moves completed here fell between $824 and $1,008, and half ran between 3.75 and 4.75 hours. Three movers and one truck at the median, 4 hours on site. A predictable set of contents billed at an hourly rate is what produces a band that narrow, and it is the most common size we have handled inside this community.

Also a southwest Calgary figure, from 188 three-bedroom moves in the communities around Cedarbrae. Three movers, one truck, and a median of 6.25 hours on site. That is a full working day rather than a morning. Half of those jobs ran between 4.19 and 8.56 hours and cost between $858 and $1,950. At this size the garage and the basement decide the length of the day as much as the bedrooms do, which is why the band opens out here.

The four-bedroom-plus card is the southwest Calgary figure too, from 70 moves of that size around Cedarbrae. Three movers and a truck, a median of 8 hours on site, and half of those days between 4.31 and 10 hours at a cost between $889 and $3,118. A day this long is decided before the crew arrives: how much of the house is boxed, and whether the basement and the garage are staged or still being sorted. The hourly rate is the same one a one-bedroom is billed at.