Dechene Movers, Edmonton
Cactus has completed over 210 residential moves across southwest Edmonton: Dechene and the 56 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.
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Or call (825) 526-2626 nowMovers in Dechene: what we know about moving here
Dechene is about as close to a pure house neighbourhood as this census panel gets. Almost every home is a house rather than a flat, almost all of them are owned, and nothing in the community reaches five storeys. In practice that describes moves running house to house, timed to a possession rather than a lease, with a driveway at both ends and no tower lift to hold at either. The households are full ones too, so the truck usually leaves loaded.
The southwest Edmonton communities beside Dechene supply the figures below.
Moving costs around Dechene, by the numbers
Fifty-six communities and 214 residential moves make up that group. The middle job ran 4.75 hours on site with half of them between 2.75 and 7.5, and cost an $877 median with tax in, half falling between $488 and $1,534. Seventy per cent were graded small. Because the billing is hourly, the more there is to carry and the more stairs it has to come down, the further along that band a job lands.
- The comparison set
- 56 neighbourhoods · 214 moves
- Crew hours on site
- 4.75 median
- How big those moves are
- 70% small · 25% medium · 5% large
- Busiest months
- August, April and June
- What those moves cost
- $877 median
communities in southwest Edmonton: this one and every community next to it
half ran 2.75–7.5 hours · 214 moves
August 32, April 27, June 27
half fell between $488 and $1,534 · based on 214 residential moves, total cost with tax
How much does it cost to move in Dechene?
$877 is the median total with tax across the 214 residential moves in the southwest Edmonton communities around Dechene, with half of them falling between $488 and $1,534. Cactus bills a local move by the hour, at a rate the number of movers and the size of the truck decide, and the agreement states it before the crew starts.
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What does a house-to-house move in Dechene involve?
95% of Dechene's homes are owned and almost all of them are houses, so a typical job here loads from a driveway and unloads at another one, with the date set by a possession rather than a lease. Nothing in the community reaches five storeys, so there is no tower lift to reserve and no loading bay window to fit the day into. The median day across the surrounding communities is 4.75 hours on site.
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Does packing ahead of the day reduce what a Dechene move costs?
It can, because a local move is billed by the hour: the middle half of the 214 moves in the surrounding communities spanned 2.75 to 7.5 hours on site, and boxing a home before the crew arrives is the lever you control on where a job sits inside that. Packing services and bin rentals are available and are quoted separately from the hourly rate, so you can hand off as much or as little of it as you want.
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Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Dechene?
Only where the truck has to occupy the road itself, and Edmonton's On-Street Construction and Maintenance permit is what covers it, with no fee attached at present for this class of work. Processing runs to roughly 6 business days, and a low-impact request is meant to be filed a minimum of 6 working days ahead, a high-impact one 10. Where the truck can work from a driveway, it does not come up.
Call Edmonton or get a quote online. Either works.
Dechene neighbourhood guide for moving day
Nearly all of Dechene's homes are owner-occupied houses, so a move here is normally house to house with the truck in or beside a driveway rather than at a building entrance, and nothing in the community reaches five storeys. The households are full rather than single-occupant, which points at whole-home loads rather than a room's worth. That leaves the road as the only permitted question: Edmonton's On-Street Construction and Maintenance permit applies where a truck has to occupy it, carries no fee at present for this category, and takes roughly 6 business days to come back.
Most homes in Dechene were built 1981 to 1990
2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home
- People
- 1,820
- Homes
- 595
- What people live in
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- 88% single-detached houses
- 9% semi-detached houses
- In a building of five storeys or more
- 0% of homes
- One-person households
- 13%
People per household
2.7
2021 federal census
2021 federal census
- Owned or rented
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- 95% owned
- 5% rented
2021 federal census, 25% sample
- What it costs
- No fee currently: OSCAM Permits associated with Temporary Crossing, Tree Shrub Hoarding and Waste Bin, POD or SeaCan work reasons currently have no fees associated with them. A daily permitting fee for on-street placement of commercial waste bins, PODs or SeaCans is planned but is on hold until further notice.
- How much notice
- Average processing time is 6 business days. Low-impact projects should be submitted a minimum of 6 working days prior to start of work; high-impact projects a minimum of 10 working days. Longer processing during peak construction season (March to October).
Not sure whether your block needs an OSCAM permit before the truck arrives? Booking the curb in Dechene is something we do every week: talk to our Edmonton team
Figures come from Cactus’s own completed residential moves (business and high-frequency accounts excluded) and from official municipal open data; they are medians and quartiles, never averages, every published figure rests on at least five moves, percentages are rounded, and all-time counts are floors because some older pickup and drop-off addresses were never geocoded.
Real Customers. Real Movers. Real Reviews.
Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Dechene’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.
181 five-star reviews with a written comment on our Edmonton listing since February 2024
5 out of 5
Had an excellent experience with Cactus Moving, guys Andrii and Max were professionals and very helpful!
5 out of 5
If you want real hard workers to move your stuff then Catus moving is what you need guys! I can't say about every worker from this company but Ivan L and Andrii were perfect on the site. I wish everybody have workers like those fellows
5 out of 5
We ask Cactus Moving to help us we the local move and this guys are real professionals, thank you Ivan L and Andrii for amazing service!
5 out of 5
Thank you Ivan L and Andrii! They moved me from Calgary to Edmonton without any stress and damages. I’ll always recommend Cactus Moving to all my friends!
5 out of 5
Ivan L and Andrii did the job how it should be done. Appreciate your attention to what I said. And also thank you for our interesting conversation. Good job!
5 out of 5
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