Malvern West Movers, Toronto

It is the commonest shape here: 28% of homes are row houses, against 24% detached and 18% in a building of five storeys or more. A row house means stairs, a narrow hallway and a shared frontage, so where the truck stands matters more than it would in a driveway. Mention the frontage when you book and the crew can plan the carry.

3 hours on site is the middle of the 89 pooled jobs, with half of them between 3 and 5.25 hours and 78% graded small. That pool holds a lot of apartment work. A family household in a row house is a fuller load, and the honest estimate comes from a walk-through rather than from a median.

Forty-three northeast Toronto communities that border one another, Malvern West among them, with 89 completed residential moves between them. Banbury-Don Mills contributes 18 of those, Thorncliffe Park 11 and Bayview Village 10, with Don Valley Village, North Toronto and Henry Farm making up the named remainder.

On the detached blocks a driveway usually answers it. On a row house frontage it may not, and Toronto publishes no page covering a moving truck at a residential curb, with its street occupation permit written for containers instead. 311 is the number for your own street, and a few days ahead is the time to call it.