Silver Springs Movers, Calgary

Two movers and one truck, and the median one-bedroom move in Silver Springs is finished in 3.25 hours on site, the shortest day of the four sizes on this page. The middle half ran 2.25 to 3.5 hours, a tight band for a job that is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of cartons. Five completed moves sit behind the figures, so read $498 as the middle of a handful rather than as a rate. Stairs and carry distance are what move a day inside that band.

Still two movers and one truck, and the median runs 5.25 hours on site. That is two hours longer than the one-bedroom card above, for a second bedroom's worth of furniture and boxes. The price band is the tightest on the page, $985 to $1,118 across the middle half, which is what hourly billing does to a job whose contents are fairly predictable. The hours behind it ran 4.75 to 6, so most of these were an afternoon rather than a full day. Five moves sit behind the figures.

The crew steps up to three movers on one truck at this size, and the median day is 6 hours on site: a full working day rather than a morning. Seven completed moves sit behind it, and half of them fell between $1,027 and $1,857, a band that widens because a three-bedroom house in a community of this age usually comes with a garage and a basement attached to the count. A walkthrough before the date is what places a particular job inside that spread.

Three movers and one truck again, with a median of 6.75 hours on site. The middle half of these seven moves ran anywhere from 4 to 11.25 hours, the widest spread on the page by a distance. Half the totals landed between $953 and $2,968. At four bedrooms and up the variable is not the number of rooms but how much of the house is boxed when the crew arrives, and packing services are available on the same booking if that is the part worth handing over.