Terwillegar Towne Movers, Edmonton

These are the southwest Edmonton figures rather than Terwillegar Towne's own, because fewer than five moves of this size have been recorded inside the boundary. Across the 45 of them, two movers and one truck is the dispatch, the median day is 4.25 hours on site and half run between 3 and 7.25. The work is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, and on an hourly rate the variable is the carry: stairs, a lift, and how close the truck can get to the door.

A second bedroom is what turns a two-mover job into a three-mover one. Across the 42 moves of this size in the southwest communities beside Terwillegar Towne, the dispatch is three movers and one truck and the median day is 6 hours on site, with half falling between 3.5 and 7.5. That is a working day rather than a morning. The spread from $616 to $1,744 across the middle half is what an hourly rate does to a load that can be a compact condo or a full townhouse.

At three bedrooms the day is a full one: 8 hours on site is the median across the 26 moves of this size in southwest Edmonton, with half landing between 6 and 9. Three movers and one truck handle it, and the reason the totals in the middle half run from $999 to $2,227 is that a home this size is as much about the garage and the basement as about the bedrooms. Those are the rooms worth walking through before the date, because they are what sets the hours.

Four bedrooms and up is a different kind of day. In the southwest communities around Terwillegar Towne it takes four movers and one truck, the median is 9 hours on site, and the middle half of the 10 recorded at this size ran from 5.81 to 11.5 hours. Read $2,385 as the middle of a small sample rather than as a rate. The hourly charge is the same one every other size is billed at; what makes the day long is how much of the house is boxed before the crew arrives.