A free moving cost calculator with no inventory to fill in: pick your home, how full it is, your date and where it's going, and see a flat-rate estimate for a local or long-distance move, packing, loading help or junk removal, priced the way our office does it. Then make it a flat rate.
What do you need
Local or long distance, we bring the truck.
Service date
The date sets the price more than anything else. For the lowest price, consider moving in the middle of the month, Monday to Thursday.
From and to
Leave these empty for a local estimate; past 80 miles it's a long-distance move.
What's moving
How full is it
Closets with room to spare, little in the cabinets
Also moving
Packing
You pack the boxes and the fragile furniture (TVs, curio cabinets, glass tops); we wrap the rest
Access
Stairs and the carry are in your flat rate; we ask so the crew and the day are planned right.
Your flat-rate estimate
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Moving for a 1 bedroom apartment with about 10 boxes, pick your date above to see the price.
In the price
The estimate appears once your date is in, because the date sets the price more than anything else. Your flat rate is one number, fixed before the day from your list and your date, and that is what you pay: nothing added for traffic, hours or stairs.
Make it a flat rate
One fixed price, set before you book
Send us your date and a quick list of what's moving and you get a flat rate within the hour, usually under the top of this range. No deposit to book, and the price you approve is the price you pay.
How it works
Moving, packing, loading or unloading help, a move inside the premises, or junk removal. Then the date: it sets the price more than anything else, and the calculator reads the day's price level from our calendar: for the lowest price, consider moving in the middle of the month, Monday to Thursday.
Two cities or ZIP codes for a move, one address for everything else. The kind of place, its size and how full it is size the job the way our office does for a quick estimate, with the boxes a home of that fullness packs. Packing: you pack, we pack the fragile furniture, or we pack it all.
A flat-rate range and what it covers. Up to 80 miles it works as a local moving cost calculator; past that as a long distance moving cost calculator, priced by the load and the distance with a delivery window. Send us your list and date and the range becomes one fixed number.
What sets the price
Six things set the price of a move, and the calculator asks about every one of them. Here is what each does to the number, with the figures our office uses.
The biggest factor by far. Our calendar has ten price levels, from Economy to Ultimate, and the same crew and truck can cost twice as much on the last Saturday of the month as on a Wednesday in the middle of it. Mid-month, Monday to Thursday, is the cheapest; Fridays, Saturdays and the turn of the month are the dearest. Evenings carry no surcharge.
The size guide figures a 1 bedroom apartment at about 360 cubic feet of furniture, a 2 bedroom at 500, a 3 bedroom at 860 and a 4 bedroom at 1,290, plus the boxes: about 10 for a minimalist home, 15 for a moderate one, 20 for a dense one. A dense home also counts 30% more furniture than average, a minimalist one 25% less. A basement adds about 210 cubic feet, a garage 300, a shed 250, an attic 100.
Up to 80 road miles a move is local, and the drive between the two addresses is part of the crew's day, at the 25 miles an hour DC-area traffic allows. Past 80 miles the move is long distance and priced by cubic feet, and the longer the drive, the less each cubic foot costs: a cross-country load is billed at well under half the rate per cubic foot of a 400-mile one.
You pack the boxes and we pack the fragile furniture, meaning TVs, curio cabinets, glass tops and mirrors: a small add, about a fifth of the labor on a local move. We pack everything, boxes and paper included: most of a day's labor again on a local move, and roughly the price of the move again on a long-distance one.
On a local move they are inside the flat rate. The calculator asks so the crew and the hours are planned right, and nothing is added for them on the day. On a long-distance move, ten flights of stairs are included and each flight past that is $15; an elevator is $15 per 100 cubic feet, because it goes up in trips.
A long-distance price is figured on at least 286 cubic feet, about a studio, so a few items cost the same to send across the country as a studio does. The standard service picks up within two days of your date and delivers within 14; a guaranteed date is the premium service.
A real move, priced
Sarah M. moved a 2-bedroom apartment from Washington, DC to Bethesda in October. Here is what the calculator would have asked her, and what the date did to her price.
Saturday, October 24 · Prime
$1414.98
Wednesday, October 14 · Economy
$658.99
Same crew, same truck, same 68 items. Her dates were flexible, so she moved on the Wednesday and saved $755.99, 53%.
Set how full the home is honestly: the calculator plans 15 boxes for a moderate 2-bedroom and 20 for a dense one, and Sarah had 36. Her flat rate came from her list, not from a form, and it was the number on her final bill. The whole day, hour by hour, is in the local movers case study.
By home
Starting prices for weekday moves in the first three weeks of the month, and what the calculator figures behind them. The calculator above gives you the number for your own date and distance.
Local from $240
A 1 bedroom apartment is about 360 cubic feet of furniture plus boxes: a crew and a truck for a short day, cheapest in the middle of the month, Monday to Thursday. Long distance from $1290.
Local from $320
Around 500 cubic feet with the boxes: a crew and a truck for half a day. Full closets and a stocked kitchen push the price up, a lighter home brings it down. Long distance from $1690.
Local from $780
A house carries more than an apartment with the same bedrooms: a garage, a basement, patio furniture. Figure 850 to 1,100 cubic feet and most of a day for the crew. Long distance from $2490.
Local from $1440
1,100 to 1,500 cubic feet with the garage and basement: a bigger crew, a full day, sometimes a second truck. Long distance from $3190, set once we know the distance and the inventory.
Past 80 miles
Priced by cubic feet, not hours. The longer the drive, the less each cubic foot costs, and there's a minimum load of 286 cubic feet. Pickup within two days of your date, delivery within 14 on the standard service.
From $240
Partial packing means we pack the fragile furniture (TVs, curio cabinets, glass tops) while you do the boxes; full packing means we pack it all, boxes and paper included. As flat rates: $240 for a 1 bedroom apartment, $320 for a 2 bedroom apartment, $480 for a 2 bedroom house, $640 for a 3 bedroom house.
Flat rates
Rates shown are for weekday moves in the first three weeks of the month. Storage available, first month free while space allows. Long distance rates start from the numbers above and are fixed once we know your distance and inventory.
| Home | Local move | Long distance | Packing | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bedroom Apartment | from $240 | from $1290 | from $240 | $225 per month |
| 2 Bedroom Apartment | from $320 | from $1690 | from $320 | $270 per month |
| 2 Bedroom House | from $780 | from $2490 | from $480 | $465 per month |
| 3 Bedroom House | from $1440 | from $3190 | from $640 | $480 per month |
The prices page has every rate, office and white glove included. Not sure what you have? The boxes calculator, truck size calculator and storage unit size calculator build a room-by-room list you can send with your quote request, and the storage cost calculator prices storage by the month.
FAQ
What people ask before they book. Anything else, give us a call.
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