who is the best mover across Canada
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your nickel or on the government? if the latter, they have a list of recommended movers ...peterchen said:
if yours, figure out what's worth moving and sell the rest ... the cost is pretty high for this kind of a move (especially getting off the flipping island) and any savings can make a difference.
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Used to be in the furniture game.
Get estimates from all the large companies. Allied, North American, Atlas. These will probably not be quotes, but estimates. It will be costly.
Like someone said, sell everything you can afford to.
You can try to nail down the salesman with a cost and sometimes they will flat rate the move. Depends on how much stuff you have.
Unless you know exactly what you are doing, I would not have AMJ drop off a can to your house, and let you load it. If anything breaks inside, they will not cover the cost. These things will get moved around by forklifts several times, possibly by someone who is over-worked (especially at this time of year), and who knows what could happen.
Try to get whoever picks up your stuff at your house here, to drop it off at your house in Ottawa. The less times it is handled, the less chance there is of something getting broken. If you can afford it, have them do your packing of boxes for you, especially the kitchen. They are experts, also if something inside that box breaks, it will be covered by their insurance. If you pack the box, it wont be, unless there is physical damage to the box.
Used to be in the furniture game.
Get estimates from all the large companies. Allied, North American, Atlas. These will probably not be quotes, but estimates. It will be costly.
Like someone said, sell everything you can afford to.
You can try to nail down the salesman with a cost and sometimes they will flat rate the move. Depends on how much stuff you have.
Unless you know exactly what you are doing, I would not have AMJ drop off a can to your house, and let you load it. If anything breaks inside, they will not cover the cost. These things will get moved around by forklifts several times, possibly by someone who is over-worked (especially at this time of year), and who knows what could happen.
Try to get whoever picks up your stuff at your house here, to drop it off at your house in Ottawa. The less times it is handled, the less chance there is of something getting broken. If you can afford it, have them do your packing of boxes for you, especially the kitchen. They are experts, also if something inside that box breaks, it will be covered by their insurance. If you pack the box, it wont be, unless there is physical damage to the box.
btw: my last move in town cost me about $400 ... but the same pile of junk (actually smaller because i got rid of a lot of stuff) cost me nearly $7000 from Ottawa to Vancouver ... add more for the ferry from Victoria and then across the country ... but i wasn't paying for that move so i didn't care ...
so, like i said, if its your dime, the more you can get ride of the better ... if not, who cares? and if you have some expensive stuff, get the moving company to pack -- the company that moved me out of ottawa packed for me (part of the big expense noted above) and did it in under a day and then it is all insured.
the other thing (if on your dime) is to 'piggy-back' your move ... simply put, the movers have room in a truck and shove your stuff in with it ... you don't get to pick the dates and your stuff gets handled more and may get lost but it is cheaper.
and for stuff that you really cannot replace, try to take it on the plane with you (you can pay for extra baggage!) or even courier it to yourself ... when i went to ottawa, i used a little known thing at canada post where you get a whole 'bin' and i filled it with stuff that i needed and the bin got shipped for less than $100 ... it got there the day after I did!
so, like i said, if its your dime, the more you can get ride of the better ... if not, who cares? and if you have some expensive stuff, get the moving company to pack -- the company that moved me out of ottawa packed for me (part of the big expense noted above) and did it in under a day and then it is all insured.
the other thing (if on your dime) is to 'piggy-back' your move ... simply put, the movers have room in a truck and shove your stuff in with it ... you don't get to pick the dates and your stuff gets handled more and may get lost but it is cheaper.
and for stuff that you really cannot replace, try to take it on the plane with you (you can pay for extra baggage!) or even courier it to yourself ... when i went to ottawa, i used a little known thing at canada post where you get a whole 'bin' and i filled it with stuff that i needed and the bin got shipped for less than $100 ... it got there the day after I did!
