Signal Hill Movers, Calgary

The figures on this card are drawn from 459 one-bedroom moves across southwest Calgary rather than from Signal Hill alone. Two movers and one truck is the crew, the median day is 3.75 hours on site, and half of them ran between 2.5 and 5 hours. What does most of the moving inside that band is the stairs, how far the truck can sit from the door and how much is already boxed. It is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of cartons, with the bed frame usually the only piece needing both movers at once.

Three movers and one truck, and a median of 6 hours on site, most of a working day. This card and the three-bedroom one beside it are the two cut from Signal Hill's own moves, and there are seven behind this one, so the $1,477 median is the middle of a small sample rather than a rate. The band under it is wide, $648 to $1,577 across the middle half, with the hours behind that running 4.38 to 8.13. A walkthrough before the date is what says which end a particular job sits at.

Ten completed moves sit behind this card, and they run three movers on one truck with a median of 6.38 hours on site. The price band is the tighter one on this page, $1,036 to $1,689 across the middle half, because a three-bedroom house holds a fairly predictable amount once the garage and the basement are counted in. The same middle half ran 4.88 to 8.38 hours, and what decides it is how much is packed in advance and how far the carry is at each end.

A four-bedroom-plus move is a different kind of day, and these figures come from 66 of them across southwest Calgary rather than from Signal Hill alone. Three movers, one truck, and a median of 7.88 hours on site. The middle half runs from 4.06 to 10.56 hours, which is the difference between an afternoon and a very long day. Half the totals fell between $855 and $3,078. At this size, how much of the house is boxed before the crew arrives is what decides where the day lands.