Westgate Movers, Calgary

These figures are the southwest Calgary read on a one-bedroom apartment or condo move, 448 of them in all, rather than Westgate's own. Two movers, one truck, a median of 3.75 hours on site, and half running between 2.5 and 5 hours. Half came to between $417 and $883. It is the size where access decides the day more than the furniture does: the corridor, the lift and the distance out to wherever the truck could stand.

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move across southwest Calgary, drawn from 415 jobs rather than from inside Westgate. It stays a two-mover, one-truck day, but the median stretches to 5 hours on site from 3.75 at one bedroom, and half of them ran between 3.75 and 6.75 hours. Half cost between $671 and $1,273. The extra room is usually boxes rather than furniture, and boxes are where the hours go.

At three bedrooms the crew goes to three movers and the day to a 6.25-hour median, read across 190 such moves in southwest Calgary rather than in Westgate alone. Half ran between 4.25 and 8.5 hours and half came to between $882 and $1,940. This is the size at which a garage, a basement or a storage room starts deciding the hours, which is what a walkthrough before the date is for.

A four-bedroom-plus house move, read across 70 of them in southwest Calgary rather than inside Westgate. It is the longest day at any size. The median dispatch is three movers and one truck, the median time on site 8 hours, and half of them ran between 4.31 and 10.56 hours and cost between $855 and $3,078. The rate does not change at this size; it is hourly and stated in the agreement before the crew starts, so how much of the house is boxed is what decides the day.