When gathering quotes, a lot of people
ask, 'how long will my move take?' in hopes to get an idea of how much the move
will end up costing. Ask any professional removal company and they will tell
you about the golden rule of estimating the length of a move.
On average, two professional movers can
load 10 cubic meters per hour, with excellent access. It takes half that time
of offload.
What is excellent access classified
as? A short, clear path from where the removal truck will park to the main
entrance point into the house, wide doorframes and hallways, no stairs and
furniture has been dismantled prior to the removalists arrival.
Imagine you are moving from an average
3-bedroom home with roughly 30 - 40 cubic meters of furniture. The access at
both the moving-from and moving-to addresses is excellent. It will take an
average of 3 - 4 hours to load, then half that time to offload (i.e. 1½ - 2
hours to offload). That's a total of 4½ - 6 hours. Keep in mind, this
estimate timeframe does not include the distance time it takes to travel
between the addresses, depot or call-out fee.
To ensure a fast and efficient move, Your
Local Movers provide professionally trained removalists. We recruit and
personally train all our own staff. With the aid of an experienced team
leader and offsider, they will undergo 3 months intensive training before
deemed qualified to lead a move. We ensure our team are experienced and
will get you moved as quickly and as efficiently as possible. For these
reasons, we do not hire subcontractors or back-packers.
Let's use our imaginations again. This
time you have just landed a new job working in an office. You are likely
to spend the first couple of weeks umm-ing and aah-ing and standing around
asking questions as you tackle new foreign tasks. After a couple of months
doing the same job over and over, you feel confident walking into the office
every morning and know exactly what you need to do, when to do it and how to do
it. Now imagine hiring a removal company with untrained staff or who hire
subcontractors and back-packers. It would be quite frustrating watching
time ticking away as they umm and aah about how and what to do. And you're
paying for it!
Want to move faster for the same price?
By adding an additional mover to the job,
it will speed your move by up to 2/3. It generally costs around the same,
if not cheaper. Basically you get moved for the same total cost, just
much, much faster.
To find
out more, ask our removal consultants about adding an additional mover to your
professional moving team today.