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Bedroom count is a real-estate number, not a labor number. Two 3-bedroom houses can be a first-floor short carry or a third-floor walk-up with an 80-foot carry to the truck — the same "3BR local move" quote covers both, and one of them is how a Saturday that looked like $900 becomes a loss. Price the walk, not the bedrooms.
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Stairs. Every flight is extra trips, and extra trips scale with how much you're moving, not a flat per-flight surcharge. A studio up two flights and a four-bedroom house up two flights are not the same stair penalty.
Long carry. Distance from the door to the truck adds time the same way stairs do — more trips at a longer walk, scaled to cubic feet, not a guess.
Packing and drive time. Packing services and the drive between locations are their own clock hours, billed at the same loaded rate as the load and unload.
The calculator does that arithmetic in your browser. It is not a recommended price, a tariff, or a guarantee — verify every figure against your own payroll, insurance, and times before sending a bid.
Two 3-bedroom houses, same inventory: one is a first-floor unit with a short carry to the curb, the other is a third-floor walk-up with an 80-foot carry to where the truck can park. A flat "3BR local move" quote prices them the same. The stair and long-carry hours the second job actually needs — scaled to the cubic feet being moved, not a flat surcharge per flight — are exactly what turns a comfortable Saturday into a loss if they're missing from the bid. The calculator adds those hours before it prices the job.
From clock hours: load and unload time for the inventory, plus extra hours for stairs and a long carry that scale with cubic feet, plus packing and drive time. Hours times crew size times loaded wage, then truck, fuel, materials, overhead, and margin.
Two 3-bedroom houses can be a first-floor short carry or a third-floor walk-up with an 80-foot carry. Bedroom count cannot see the extra trips. That is how a Saturday that looked like $900 becomes a loss.
Stairs add trips, so the extra hours should scale with how much you are moving, not a flat surcharge. This tool starts from minutes per flight per 200 cubic feet and lets you replace that with a time from your own crew.
No. The output is arithmetic on the numbers you entered. It is not a recommended price, a tariff, or a guarantee. Verify every figure against your own payroll, insurance, and times before sending a bid.