In an apartment move, the building is the hard part — not the furniture. Elevators, paperwork, loading zones and move-in windows decide how the day goes.
Call 226-780-4558 Get a QuoteA three-bedroom house with a driveway is a straightforward day's work. A one-bedroom on the fifth floor can eat the same number of hours, and the reason is never the boxes. It's a service elevator someone else booked, a loading zone with a car parked in it, a concierge who needs paperwork nobody mentioned, and a four-hour move-in window that started while the crew was waiting downstairs. Sort those four things in advance and an apartment move is genuinely easy.
Guelph has a lot of older low-rise buildings and converted houses with no elevator at all. Stairs are fine — they cost time, and we bill hourly, so we'd rather tell you what that time looks like up front than discover it together on the day.
A straight run of stairs barely slows a crew down. A landing with a tight turn is what stops a boxspring or a sectional. Measure the stairwell at its narrowest and tell us before move day.
Queen and king boxsprings, sleeper sofas, and full-depth sectionals are the usual casualties. Split boxsprings and take-apart sectionals solve most of it — worth knowing which you own now rather than at 8am.
Stairs reward small, closed, stackable boxes and punish loose armfuls. If packing is the part you'd rather not do, our packing service handles it.
Apartment moves cluster onto a handful of dates, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. The last weekend of the month, May 1, and September 1 are when every crew in the city is committed — and with the university turning over, the week around September 1 is the hardest booking of the year in Guelph. Two things follow from that. If your dates flex at all, a mid-month weekday is cheaper, calmer, and gets you a better time slot. If they don't flex, book as early as you can and expect a start time rather than a choice of one.
If you're a student moving in or out of a room rather than a whole unit, student moving covers the smaller version of this. If your lease and your closing don't line up and you need somewhere for your belongings in between, or the date moved on you, last-minute and same-day moving is the page for that. Moving within the city is priced as a standard local Guelph move, and if it's really only a few heavy items leaving the apartment, furniture moving is the cheaper booking.
What tenants and condo owners in Guelph ask us most.
You do — buildings only take elevator reservations from the resident or the incoming tenant, not from the moving company. Do it as soon as you have a date. Most Guelph buildings hand out a small number of service-elevator blocks per day and they go first-come, and a move with no elevator booked at a building that requires one can be turned away at the door.
Send us the building's requirements as soon as property management gives them to you, along with the management contact. Requirements vary building to building and some want the documents a full week ahead, so the thing that causes trouble isn't the paperwork itself — it's finding out about it two days before the move.
Stairs cost time, and we bill hourly, so they cost money — but far less than people expect if the path is clear. What actually slows a walk-up down is a turn in the stairwell too tight for a boxspring or a sectional, and doors that won't stay propped. Tell us the floor and whether there's a landing turn, and we'll build the realistic hour count into the quote instead of surprising you with it.
Sometimes, if you book early. Those two dates and the last weekend of every month are when every mover in Guelph is committed, and student turnover near the university makes September 1 the hardest day of the year. If your dates have any flexibility at all, moving mid-month or mid-week costs less and gets you a better crew window. If they don't, call as far ahead as you can.
No. One-bedroom and studio moves are routine, and they usually run inside our minimum billable hours, which we state on the phone before you book. Bachelor apartments, single rooms in a shared student house, and partial moves are all normal work.
Tell us the buildings at both ends and your date. If you already know your elevator window, even better. Or call 226-780-4558.
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