Moving into Davidson

What the arrival move includes

One service, four stages, one crew responsible for all of it:

• The driveway scope. Before the day we work out where the truck stands, what the drive will take, whether the under-house garage clears your tallest pieces, and which door each level loads through. On a steep block we walk it in person. You can run the same scope yourself here.
• The pack, if you want it. Boxes labelled by room and level, because in a split-level house "upstairs" isn't a label, it's a flight of stairs someone has to climb twice if the label's lazy. More on packing.
• The move. Boxes stage in the garage so the living levels stay clear; furniture takes the planned route; the piano and the nursery get their own handling. Heavy things placed once, where they'll live.
• The settle. Beds assembled and made up, the kitchen unpacked to working order, kids' rooms sorted for school on Monday. We call it settled by Sunday, and it's the difference between a house full of boxes and a home that started.

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Why the driveway comes first

Most of the houses here were built in one stretch from the late seventies, cut into the old quarry slope. That gives you the under-house double garage, the split levels stepping down the block, and a drive that a truck has to respect. None of it is a problem when it's planned for. All of it is a problem at 8am on move day when it isn't.

So we plan it. The truck stages at the top of Stone Parade rather than reversing down it; the boxes land in the garage below the living level; the sofa comes in through the lower entry so it never meets the tight turn on the internal stair. The plan changes house to house, and that's exactly the point: it's your house's plan, not a template.

The job's done when the house works, not when the truck's empty.The one promise we build every arrival move around

What it costs

The same honest rates as every job we do: most arrival moves into a 2 to 3 bedroom Davidson house run on the 3 movers + 1 truck crew at $350/hour. Bigger homes, or a move with serious volume, take the 4 movers + 2 trucks crew at $500/hour. One price per tier, hours agreed with you before the day, and no sight-unseen totals invented over the phone. The full tier explainer is here.

Booked settlement? Work backwards

Most families arriving here are moving on a settlement clock, two to four weeks out. That's enough time to do this properly: