The three rates, once more
Two movers and a truck, $250 an hour. Three movers and a truck, $350 an hour. Four movers and two trucks, $500 an hour. Door to door, no other charges. Everything below is about how many hours those rates multiply by.
Anatomy of a load
Watch a good crew for a morning and the hours split roughly like this:
- Wrapping and protecting. Blankets on furniture, film on fabric, doorways padded. Slow-looking, cheap insurance, and it happens while the first items flow, a practised crew overlaps it with loading.
- The carry. Truck to door, door to truck, repeated a few hundred times. Distance is the multiplier, which is why where the truck stands matters more than any other single fact.
- The stack. A truck loaded well is a three-dimensional puzzle solved in real time. Minutes spent stacking right are minutes that stop a second trip existing.
- The drive. Short around here, Belrose is under nine minutes from Terrey Hills, Mona Vale eight and a half, and we're based at this end, so the clock isn't paying for a cross-city positioning run.
The crew-size arithmetic, shown honestly
Take a real-shaped example: a three-bedroom house with a deep garage and a long carry. Illustrative arithmetic only, your property writes its own numbers:
| Crew | Rate | Plausible day | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 movers + 1 truck | $250/hr | 9 hours | $2,250 |
| 3 movers + 1 truck | $350/hr | 6 hours | $2,100 |
| 4 movers + 2 trucks | $500/hr | 4.5 hours | $2,250 |
Notice what happened: the "cheap" crew came out dearest-equal, and everyone on it was wrecked by dinner. The middle crew won this shaped job. On a genuine property move with outbuildings, the four-mover crew usually wins because the crew splits and the second truck kills the return trip. This is why we quote crew-first, not rate-first, the lowest hourly number is not the lowest bill.
The levers you hold
- Be packed. Genuinely packed, lids closed, boxes stacked in each room. Loose-item days run a third longer than boxed days, nothing on a move day costs more than an open drawer.
- Decide before, not during. Every "does this go?" answered on the day is a paused crew. The sort belongs to the weeks before, the shed guide has the order.
- Clear the path. Gates open, cars moved, the parking spot free, dogs secured. Ten minutes of morning prep buys back an hour of crew time.
- Tell us everything. The piano, the gate, the gravel. Surprises are the only thing on a move that's always expensive.
What we promise about the clock
We give you an honest hours estimate with the quote and we tell you which way it could move and why. The rate never changes mid-job, there are no levies or line items to discover, and if the day is running ahead of the estimate, you simply pay for fewer hours. That's the whole deal, and it's the same deal for every property on the plateau.