The Minimum Is Only the Beginning
A three-hour minimum may still be followed by travel time, materials, stairs, long carries, or other contract charges.
If an hourly mover says your job “should take six hours,” ask for the complete six-hour total—including the minimum, travel or trip time, materials, and fees. If the answer can still grow, you were given an estimate, not a total.
Before comparing movers, compare the complete bill—not only the number printed beside “per hour.”
A three-hour minimum may still be followed by travel time, materials, stairs, long carries, or other contract charges.
It may cover facility-to-pickup and delivery-to-facility time—not only the drive between your two addresses.
Traffic, rain, heat, elevator waits, parking, long carries, and breaks may remain billable unless the contract says otherwise.
Tape, mattress bags, shrink wrap, television protection, and other materials may be charged separately from labor.
If they can estimate six hours, ask them to price six hours.
Get Popeye’s Written Total →The final price remains tied to how long the day takes.
The price is established before moving day—not multiplied by an open hourly clock.
Move with the protection of a written flat rate. Popeye’s reviews the move before moving day and puts the total in writing. Traffic, rain, heat, elevator waits, and normal crew breaks do not turn into extra hourly charges. A revised written price is needed only when the move itself materially changes—such as added inventory, new access conditions, or added services.
Start online, text the move, or speak with a moving specialist. You can begin before every detail is ready.
Share the date, locations, move size, access, and inventory. Add photographs or a walkthrough when ready.
Start My Smart Quote →Text the move date, pickup and delivery cities, and a walkthrough or photographs. We will follow up for anything else needed.
Text Us →Discuss furniture, stairs, elevators, parking, building rules, timing, and the best way to prepare the proposal.
Call Now →The plan is prepared from the furniture, property, access conditions, building requirements, and services you request.
Planned tape, furniture padding, wrapping, shrink wrap, and protection for the items identified before moving day.
Planned mattress bags and protection for televisions, mirrors, artwork, glass, and fragile household pieces.
Beds, tables, and selected furniture can be prepared and rebuilt when included in the written proposal.
Elevators, loading docks, COIs, parking, HOA rules, and room-by-room placement can be planned early.
We do the planning before moving day so the customer and crew understand the move, included services, and written total.
Show Us My Move →Send the inventory, photographs, or walkthrough and identify access conditions and special items.
We assess inventory, crew, equipment, protection, access, materials, timing, and requested services.
The proposal states the planned services, included materials, price, terms, and move details.
Residential moving for homes, apartments, condos, townhomes, high-rises, storage units, and private residences.
Some hourly movers use it to account for crew and vehicle time outside the loading and unloading work. Ask how it is calculated and whether it is included in the quoted total.
In Popeye’s written flat-rate proposal, the materials planned for the move are included in the stated price.
A revised written price is needed only when the move materially changes, such as added inventory, new access conditions, or added services.
Provide the move date, locations, inventory, stairs or elevators, parking, building rules, specialty items, and requested services. A walkthrough video or photographs can make the review easier.
Show us the move. Popeye’s will review the inventory, access, protection, planned materials, and requested services, then prepare the written total before moving day.
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