Appliance Movers Across Canada

This is the job where one item is the whole move: a French door refrigerator that will not clear the kitchen doorway, a washer and dryer stack going down to a basement, a range that has to come up a flight of outside steps. Cactus books it as its own visit, with two movers, the right truck and equipment made for weight rather than volume.

Getting a large appliance through a house is mostly measuring. The crew takes the fridge doors off where the opening demands it, lifts door slabs off their hinges, lays runners on hardwood and tile, and moves the machine on a stair dolly with straps rather than on somebody's knees. Refrigerators travel upright, which is what keeps the compressor oil where it belongs.

It is the same hourly model as any local job: the rate follows the crew and the truck, and there is a two hour minimum. One appliance across town rarely fills the minimum, which is why the office will often suggest putting two or three items on the same visit, or attaching the appliance to a move you already have booked.

One operations fee covers the office coordination, and there is no fuel surcharge, no mileage and no travel time charge within city limits. What changes the number is access: an outside staircase, a narrow basement turn or a machine that has to be lifted over a railing all add crew time and are quoted before the day, not after it.

The branch cost pages carry the hourly rates the two mover crew is billed at, plus what a short local visit usually adds up to.

Mississauga has 7 local moves on record, and this table publishes a price at 30 or more, so that row carries its count and no figures. A spread taken from that many jobs would look like a measurement and read like a guess. What is firm at any sample size is the hourly rate card, and every city page below publishes it.

Totals are what Cactus invoiced, in Canadian dollars with tax in, for moves whose pickup and at least one drop-off were both inside the city. Medians and quartiles, never averages, winsorised at the 5th and 95th percentile so one unusual job cannot move a band. Storage and packing materials are billed on their own agreements and are outside these totals. Measured August 30, 2026.