Seton Movers, Calgary

Two movers and one truck handle most one-bedroom moves in Seton, and the median job is finished in 4 hours on site. Half run between 3 and 4.63 hours. Stairs, a lift and how far the truck can park from the door are what move a job inside that band. The work is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, with the bed frame and the wardrobe usually the only pieces that need both movers at once.

Still a two-mover, one-truck job, with a median of 4.5 hours on site. A second bedroom's worth of furniture and boxes adds about half an hour to a one-bedroom day. The band is tight: half of the 33 we have completed fell between $751 and $960, which is what an hourly rate does to a job whose contents are fairly predictable. These are apartment and townhouse moves more often than house moves, so a booked lift and a clear loading spot are worth arranging first.

Three movers, one truck, and a median of 6.5 hours: a full working day rather than a morning. This is the widest band on the page: half of the 19 three-bedroom moves in Seton landed between $641 and $2,229, because at this size the day is as much about the garage and the basement as about the number of bedrooms. A walkthrough before the date matters more here than at any other size; it is what says whether the job sits near the bottom of that band or the top.

A four-bedroom-plus move is a different kind of day: 4 movers, 2 trucks and a median of 10.75 hours on site. Only 6 of Seton's moves have been this size, 5% of the book, so read $3,389 as the middle of a small sample rather than as a rate. Half of the six fell between $2,484 and $4,383. The hourly rate is the same one every other job here is billed at; what makes the day long is how much of the house is packed before we arrive.