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Studios to ten-room houses, across the whole greater Montreal area.
Offices, clinics, shops and warehouses — evenings and weekends, so you don't close.
Pianos, pool tables, safes, hot tubs, gym equipment, artwork.
Everything, or just the kitchen. Boxes and materials delivered.
We charge by the hour and our rates are public. You shouldn't have to fill out a form and wait three days to find out what something costs — and every other moving company in this city will make you do exactly that.
| Size of home | Crew | Working hours |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ — studio | 2 movers | 2 h |
| 2½ — one bedroom | 2 movers | 2 h |
| 3½ — one bedroom + living room | 2 movers | 3 h |
| 4½ — two bedrooms | 3 movers | 5 h |
| 5½ — three bedrooms | 3 movers | 6 h |
| 6½ — four bedrooms | 3 movers | 7 h |
| 7½ | 3 movers | 7 h |
| House (10½ and up) | 3 movers | 12 h |
Working hours are an average for a home of that size, ready to load. We add the travel time between your two addresses plus half an hour of transport, and round to the nearest half hour. Prices are before tax.
| Move | Hours billed | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 3½ within the Plateau | 4 h | $600 |
| 4½ from the Plateau to Rosemont | 6 h | $1,080 |
| 4½ from Montreal to the South Shore | 6.5 h | $975 |
| 5½ from NDG to Verdun | 7 h | $1,260 |
| Two-bedroom condo with elevator | 7 h | $1,260 |
| House with a finished basement | 13 h | $2,340 |
| House from Montreal to Laval or the South Shore | 14 h | $2,520 |
Estimates before tax, for a home ready to load with no heavy items. The calculator at the top of this page gives you the number for your two actual postal codes, in thirty seconds.
The truck, the crew, moving blankets, shrink wrap, straps, dollies, floor and door-frame protection, and taking apart and reassembling beds and tables. No weekend surcharge, no fuel fee for a local move, and no charge for crossing a bridge — a move from Montreal to the South Shore bills at exactly the same hourly rate as a move across the street.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Upright piano — small / large | $250 / $400 |
| Grand piano — small / large | $400 / $600 |
| Pool table | $350 |
| Hot tub | $800 |
| Sub-Zero refrigerator | $600 |
| Fireproof filing cabinet | $250 |
| Safe — small / large | $150 / $250 |
| Gym equipment, machinery | $200 |
| Treadmill | $100 |
| Statue | $200 |
| Glass, marble, concrete or solid wood table — small / large | $150 / $200 |
| Single appliance | $30 |
These prices assume no stairs. With stairs, add $50 per floor — which in Montreal is the rule rather than the exception. Tell us on the phone and it goes in the estimate instead of on the invoice.
| Size | Packing labour | Materials | Storage /month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1½ · 2½ | $480 | $360 | $140 |
| 3½ | $480 | $360 | $220 |
| 4½ | $1,120 | $861 | $320 |
| 5½ | $1,120 | $861 | $380 |
| 6½ · 7½ | $1,600 | $1,239 | $650 |
| House (10½ and up) | $1,600 | $1,423 | $1,200 |
Materials means the actual boxes, paper, tape, wardrobe boxes and mattress bags — priced separately from labour so you can see what you're paying for. We also sell materials on their own, delivered: free delivery on 100 boxes or more, $30 below that.
Both exist and it's your call. Hourly means you pay for the time actually worked — if the crew finishes faster, the bill goes down. It's almost always the cheaper option. A flat price is one guaranteed amount agreed in advance; we set it over the phone, because we need to know about the stairs, the basement and the heavy items first. If you want zero uncertainty, ask for it.
Montreal does a few things differently from every other city in North America. Nobody explains them, and they will all cost you money if you find out on the day.
In Quebec, residential leases traditionally run from July 1st to June 30th. Not a rolling twelve months from whenever you signed — the same fixed date for almost everyone in the province. Which means that on one single day, somewhere around a hundred thousand households in Montreal move at the same time.
Streets are blocked. Trucks are double-parked. Every moving company in the city is booked, and has been for months. Furniture that didn't fit gets left on the sidewalk, and by evening the whole city looks like a garage sale.
What this means for you, concretely: if you're moving on or around July 1st, book in February or March. Not May. By May the good dates are gone, and by mid-June you'll be calling companies who will quote you double because they can.
If your dates are flexible even by a few days, June 28th or July 3rd is a completely different experience — more availability, less traffic, and a crew that isn't on its fourth move of the day.
Quebec counts rooms, not bedrooms, and the half is the bathroom. So a 3½ is a living room, one bedroom and a kitchen, plus the bathroom. A 4½ is a two-bedroom. A 5½ is a three-bedroom. A 1½ is a studio.
This trips up everyone arriving from Toronto, the US or overseas, and it matters here because the size of your place is what determines your price. If you're used to thinking in bedrooms, add roughly two to get the Quebec number: a two-bedroom apartment is a 4½.
Use that when you fill in the calculator above. If you're not sure, count the rooms that aren't the bathroom, then add the half.
The exterior spiral staircases on Montreal triplexes are beautiful, they're on every postcard, and they are the single biggest reason a move here takes longer than you expect.
They're narrow, they curve, they have a tight landing halfway up, and in a triplex there's usually a second interior staircase after them. A sectional sofa, a king mattress or a one-piece armoire frequently will not come down — not because the crew isn't strong, but because the geometry doesn't allow it.
When that happens the answer is hoisting the piece out through a balcony or window with straps. It works, we do it regularly, and it has to be planned — it can't be improvised on the morning of. The rule worth remembering: if it came in through the window, it's going out through the window.
If you don't know how your furniture got in, measure the piece and measure the staircase before you call, and we'll tell you on the phone whether it fits.
Moving between November and April costs less — trucks are free, dates are open and there's no season premium. The obstacle isn't the highway, it's the twenty feet between your door and the truck.
Get the walkway and the stairs cleared and, more importantly, sanded the night before, at both addresses. Thirty dollars of grit saves hours of a crew moving carefully across ice. We bring floor protection for the slush and road salt, and furniture gets wrapped before it goes out into the cold, not after.
On most Montreal streets, a moving truck can't just show up and park. Depending on the borough you may need a temporary parking permit and signs posted in advance to clear the spaces, and the rules aren't the same from one borough to the next.
Give us the exact address when you first call. It's one of the first things we check, and on some downtown and Plateau streets it decides what time — or even what day — the move happens. A crew carrying boxes forty metres because the truck had to stay around the corner shows up on your invoice.
Same hourly rate everywhere, no zone surcharge, no bridge fee.
What changes from one part of the island to another isn't the rate — it's the building, and that's what decides the hours.
Not on the list? We cover the entire greater Montreal area. Call us and we'll price your exact address.
From a studio to a ten-room house. The truck, the crew, all the protective material and taking apart and reassembling beds and tables are included in the hourly rate. That's most of our days.
A studio, a one-bedroom, a single room, a few pieces of furniture: with two movers, usually done before lunch. This is the job most big companies will call you back about in three days, if at all. Details in French.
Upright pianos $250 to $400, grands $400 to $600. Piano board, straps and quilted blankets, and on a baby grand the legs and lyre come off. Add $50 per floor if there are stairs — and on a Plateau triplex, there are. Everything about piano moving, in French.
When a piece won't go down the staircase, it goes out through the balcony or the window on straps. When it won't go through either — a sectional into a high-rise, a piano on the twelfth floor, a slab of marble — that's a crane lift with a certified operator, and it needs to be planned days ahead.
Offices, clinics, shops, warehouses: a crew of three, evenings and weekends at no surcharge, so you close Friday and open Monday. Numbered floor plan, reusable crates delivered in advance, workstations dismantled and reassembled. Full details in French.
A shipping container delivered to your driveway, loaded at your home, braced with heat-treated lumber and inventoried for customs. France, Belgium, Morocco, Lebanon, Haiti, the US — and in the other direction too, if you're arriving in Montreal. Full details in French.
We pack everything, or just the kitchen and the fragile items — your call. We also deliver boxes and materials on their own: small boxes $2.00, medium $2.25, wardrobe boxes with a rail $25, mattress bags from $7. Free delivery from 100 boxes, $30 below that. Storage runs from $140 to $1,200 a month depending on volume, for when your dates don't line up. Boxes and materials, in French.
Real working days. Every piece comes out wrapped, and the floor is protected before we touch anything.
We confirm the day before: the time, both addresses, and where the truck can sit. For Montreal we always ask three more things — is there a finished basement, are there exterior stairs, and is there an elevator to book. Those three are what turn an estimate into a surprise if nobody mentions them.
The crew walks through with you and looks at what's leaving, in what order and through which door. Then we protect: floors, door frames, railings and staircases, before touching the first piece of furniture. In an apartment with original hardwood, those five minutes are what prevents a claim.
Furniture comes out wrapped in quilted blankets. Beds and large tables are taken apart — that's included. Mattresses go in bags, artwork is wrapped and travels upright. Heavy pieces are strapped to a dolly, never carried down a staircase by hand.
In the truck everything is blocked and strapped by section. A load that shifts in transit arrives damaged, and that's where fragile items are actually lost — not while carrying them.
We protect the new address before unloading. Every piece goes in the room you tell us. Beds and tables are reassembled. We leave with our blankets, not with your boxes.
The invoice is settled on site by card terminal at the end of the job. You see it itemized before you pay: the hours, the travel, and every heavy item or extra service on its own line. There is no "miscellaneous" line.
Crane lifting and professional packing. We do both every week.
When a piece won't go up the stairs, the elevator or the balcony, there's one option left: bring it in from the outside. A sectional sofa in a high-rise, a piano on the twelfth floor, a slab of marble, a safe — that's crane work, with a certified operator.
It has to be planned: ground space to stabilize the crane, access through the window or balcony, building authorization and sometimes a city permit. It is not a same-morning decision, which is exactly why you should mention it when you ask for your price.
The rule that avoids the bad surprise: if it came in through the window, it's going out through the window.
The most underrated service, and the one that decides what arrives intact. Dishes and glassware are wrapped piece by piece in paper and packed upright — never on their side, never stacked flat. A glass on its side breaks; a glass standing up holds.
We pack everything, or just the kitchen and the fragile items — your call. Labour and materials are priced separately in the table above, so you see exactly what you're paying for.
The honest math: a crew packs your kitchen in two hours and does it right. On your own it takes a full evening and something breaks. Do the rest of the house yourself — but leave the kitchen to us.
A piece that won't fit the stairs, or a full kitchen to pack? Call us — it gets planned ahead, not on the morning of.
We give you the price, whether your date is open, and answers to your questions. No obligation.
(438) 533-7770Mon – Sat, 8 AM – 5 PMor toll-free : 1 855 712-9284
