Studios, one-bedrooms, dorm rooms and single items. Often booked the same week.
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We charge by the hour and the rate is published. No form, no callback in three days, no "it depends" — the numbers are right here.
| What you're moving | Crew | Hours billed | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1½ — studio | 2 movers | 3 h | $450 |
| 2½ — one bedroom | 2 movers | 3 h | $450 |
| 3½ — one bedroom + living room | 2 movers | 4 h | $600 |
| A furnished room | 2 movers | 2 to 3 h | $300 to $450 |
| A few pieces of furniture only | 2 movers | 2 h minimum | $300 |
with two movers, before tax. Hours include the travel between your two addresses. The calculator at the top gives you the figure for your two actual postal codes.
The truck, two movers, quilted moving blankets, shrink wrap, straps, a dolly, floor and door-frame protection, and taking apart and reassembling your bed and table. No weekend surcharge, no fuel fee, no charge for crossing a bridge.
What you don't need to buy, rent or borrow: blankets, straps, a dolly, or a friend with a pickup truck.
| Extra | Price |
|---|---|
| Upright piano — small / large | $250 / $400 |
| Safe — small / large | $150 / $250 |
| Treadmill | $100 |
| Gym equipment | $200 |
| Single appliance | $30 |
| Packing labour — 1½ to 3½ | $480 |
| Packing materials (boxes, paper, wrap) | around $360 |
| Storage — 1½ or 2½, per month | $140 |
| Storage — 3½, per month | $220 |
| Hoisting, if a piece won't fit the stairs | $100 to $250 |
Add $50 per floor on the heavy items above if there are stairs. Everything else is in the hourly rate.
Every job has a two-hour minimum, which works out to $300. That's not a trick to inflate a small job — it's because the truck, the two movers and the drive there and back cost the same whether we carry three pieces or thirty.
Below that threshold, we'll tell you honestly on the phone that a courier or a delivery app will cost you less. We'd rather lose the job than take your money for something you didn't need.
A small move gets the same handling as a big one. That's the whole point.
A 1½ or a 2½ — in Quebec that's a studio and a one-bedroom. Bed, sofa, table, a dresser, twenty or thirty boxes. Two movers, three hours, usually done before lunch. This is the most common small move in Montreal and it's what the whole page is built around.
A dorm room, a room in a shared apartment, or a first place near McGill, Concordia, UdeM or Polytechnique. Mattress, desk, a few boxes and a bike. Two hours, sometimes three if there's a fourth-floor walk-up involved — and near the universities, there usually is.
Most student moves are cheaper than people expect. The two-hour minimum of $300 covers a lot more than one room's worth of furniture, so if two of you are moving on the same day in the same neighbourhood, do it in one booking and split it.
A sofa bought secondhand, a fridge, a dresser from a family member, a mattress. Two hours minimum at $300, and we bring the blankets, straps and dolly.
This is the job people try hardest to do themselves, and it's the one where the most walls get scraped and the most backs get hurt. A sofa weighs what it weighs whether or not you have a dolly.
Two people combining two apartments into one. It's two pickups and one delivery, and it takes longer than either of you thinks — usually four to five hours rather than three.
Practical advice: decide before the day which sofa is staying. Deciding in the truck costs money, and it's a conversation that goes better without two movers standing there.
Emptying a room for renovations, bringing everything back afterwards, moving a piano from the basement to the living room, taking a bed up a floor. No truck needed, just the crew and the equipment.
Two hours minimum applies, and it's often the best $300 anyone spends — especially when the alternative is asking two friends to carry an armoire down a spiral staircase.
Montreal has one of the largest student populations in North America, and student moves follow a completely different calendar from everyone else's.
Most Quebec leases run July 1st to June 30th, and July 1st is famously the day the entire province moves. But student housing near the universities doesn't follow that pattern — leases turn over in late August and early September, right before term starts.
That's useful to know for two reasons. First, if you're moving in late August, book two or three weeks ahead: the weekends before Labour Day are the tightest of the year around McGill, Concordia and UdeM. Second, if you're moving outside that window — May, June, or mid-semester — you'll find plenty of availability and no rush pricing.
Student apartments in the Plateau, the Ghetto McGill, Côte-des-Neiges and Villeray are frequently on the third or fourth floor with no elevator, and often with an exterior spiral staircase on top of that.
It doesn't cost extra — stairs are part of the hourly work — but it does add time, and time is what you're paying for. Tell us the floor and whether there's an elevator when you call, and the estimate will be right instead of optimistic.
The single most useful thing on this page for a student: the two-hour minimum is per booking, not per person. If you and a roommate are both moving the same day within the same neighbourhood, book once and do both. Two studios in the Plateau usually fit inside four hours — $540 total, $300 each, for a real truck and two people who do this every day.
If you're going home for the summer and coming back in September, storage costs $140 a month for a studio's worth of things. That's usually less than paying rent on an apartment you're not living in, and much less than replacing everything in the fall.
If you're leaving Montreal for good and shipping things overseas, that's a different service — see our international moving page.
The daily rate you see advertised for a 15 or 16-foot truck is not the price you pay. Mileage is billed separately and always surprises people. Then fuel. Then the optional insurance, which almost everyone takes because nobody wants to risk it on a truck they've never driven.
Add blankets, straps and a dolly, which are rented on top or simply not available, and a truck rental for a small Montreal move rarely lands under $120 to $180 all in.
Our 2½ at $450 against a rental at roughly $150 is a difference of about $255.
What that $255 buys: two people who do this every day, six hours of your Saturday back, no sore back on Sunday, no risk of damaging a wall or a piece of furniture in a stairwell, and not owing anybody beer.
For a studio with almost no furniture and a friend with a pickup, doing it yourself is perfectly reasonable and we'll say so. For a one-bedroom with a sofa and an exterior staircase, the $255 pays for itself the moment the sofa jams on the landing.
If you've got a few boxes and nothing heavy, we'll tell you a courier will cost less than our two-hour minimum. We lose the job and keep the customer — that's a much better trade than the other way around.
What we always suggest you leave to us, even if you do the rest yourself: the sofa, the queen or king mattress, the appliances, anything over 50 kg, and anything at all that has to come down an exterior spiral staircase.
A big company builds its schedule around full-day jobs. A studio that takes three hours doesn't fit their day, so it gets pushed to next week — or you get a callback that never comes.
We run two small moves in a day: one in the morning, one in the afternoon. That's why we can usually give you a date this week when a bigger company is quoting you for next month.
Small moves are the easiest thing to fit into a schedule. If you call on Tuesday for Friday, there's a real chance the answer is yes — and if it's no, we'll say so immediately rather than leaving you waiting.
Call rather than email for anything urgent. You'll have an answer in two minutes, and if we can't do your date we'll tell you right away instead of leaving you hanging while you could be calling someone else.
The last week of June and the first days of July. That's when the whole province moves at once and nothing is easy — not us, not anyone, not a rental truck either. For that window, book in the spring.
Late August is the second tight window, and specifically around the universities. Everything else in the year is comfortable.
Same hourly rate everywhere, no zone surcharge, no bridge fee.
Not on the list? We cover the whole greater Montreal area. Call us with your address.
The question we get most often, and the one people get most wrong — always too few.
| Home | Medium boxes | Large | Wardrobe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1½ — studio | 10 to 15 | 5 | 1 to 2 |
| 2½ — one bedroom | 15 to 25 | 8 | 2 to 3 |
| 3½ | 25 to 40 | 12 | 3 to 4 |
| A single room | 8 to 12 | 3 | 1 |
We deliver boxes if you want them: small $2.00, medium $2.25, large $3.25, wardrobe boxes with a rail $25, mattress bags from $7. Free delivery from 100 boxes, $30 below that. Full price list, in French.
Small boxes for heavy things, large boxes for light things. Everyone does the opposite — books go in the big box because it means fewer trips, and the result is a 40 kg box nobody can lift and a bottom that gives out on the stairs.
A properly packed box weighs 15 to 20 kg regardless of its size. That's why there are different sizes: not for volume, for weight.
They have a hanging rail. Clothes go from the closet to the box on their hangers and back again at the other end. Nothing gets folded, nothing gets creased, and you don't spend your first weekend ironing.
For a one-bedroom, two or three is plenty. Put your shoes in the bottom — you're paying for the space either way.
This is the single biggest thing you control. An open box doesn't stack, and a box that doesn't stack takes three times the room in the truck — which is time, which is money.
Write on the side, not the top, and write the room it's going to, not the room it came from. Tape the bottom with three strips, not one.
Take everything out of drawers and cabinets, but leave the drawers in the furniture. A full dresser weighs double, strains its runners and can warp when it's carried at an angle.
Same for the fridge: empty, unplugged and defrosted the night before, not the morning of. A fridge defrosted an hour before pickup drips through the truck.
If you're in a building with a service elevator, reserve it at both ends — and confirm the day before rather than assuming. If you're on a Plateau street with no parking, tell us the exact address so we can check what's possible before the morning.
Sheets, towels, toilet paper, chargers, toiletries, coffee, a change of clothes. Loaded last so it comes off first. It's the tip we get thanked for most, and it takes five minutes.
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.
Tell us what you're moving and from where. We'll give you the price and whether your date is open. No obligation.
(438) 533-7770Mon – Sat, 8 AM – 5 PMor toll-free : 1 855 712-9284
