Windermere Movers, Edmonton

Fewer than five one-bedroom moves have been recorded inside Windermere itself, so this card reads from the 48 across southwest Edmonton. Two movers and one truck is the dispatch and the median day is 4.13 hours on site, with half of them running 2.94 to 7.06. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes; what moves a job around inside that band is the carry: stairs, a lift, and how close the truck can park to the door.

A second bedroom is what takes the dispatch to three movers. Across the 46 moves of this size in southwest Edmonton the median day is 6 hours on site and half of them ran 3.56 to 8.81, which is a working day rather than a morning. The totals in the middle half span $616 to $1,746, the same hourly rate applied to a job that might be a compact flat or a fully furnished townhouse. The walkthrough beforehand is what tells the two apart.

Three bedrooms is a full day: 8 hours on site is the median across the 30 moves of this size in the southwest communities around Windermere, with half landing between 6.13 and 10.5 hours. Three movers and one truck handle it. The reason the totals in the middle half run from $1,062 to $2,244 is that at this size the day is as much about the garage and the basement as about the bedrooms, and those are the rooms worth walking through before the date is set.

Four bedrooms and up brings a fourth mover, and it is the crew rather than the clock that absorbs the extra volume: the median is 7.13 hours on site across the 12 recorded at this size in southwest Edmonton, with half of them between 5.13 and 9.63. Half of the totals fell between $1,249 and $2,877, so read $2,232 as the middle of a small sample rather than as a rate. What lengthens a day like this is how much of the house is boxed before the crew arrives.