Why are you Moving so much furniture

Stanley: We have differnt prices for empty rooms, traffic areas and rooms with furniture.  You do not move furniture from dry to wet.  If on person cannot move it stays put.  Large furniture wall units etc. stay put. I f there is suficent furniture that a second person is required I charge for the second person in my furniture moving price.  Everyone will be different on this one.  I for one do not like my tm running outside while I am doing nothing inside.(Furniture moving)

well I don't feel it to be fair...to move 50 piece of furniture in one house...oneday I counted...I had moved at least 50 piece...while my truck was out side have a great drink of gas....there are no extra charges for this... they call it service...I call it a pain in my back

Just listening to all this moving around of furniture is giving me a sore back. I don't know what it's like in Toronto ( I guess I will soon I'm opening up shop there next spring) But here in Montreal we move nothing that is heavy or that can be broken. Bedroom is customers responsibility, otherwise we go around everything, living room we will move sofa and chairs and coffee tables and replace them immediately, bookcases, china cabinets, and all other heavy furniture we do not touch.

I've had a case where the customer requested 3 men to help move heavy furniture at her expense @ $15.00/hr x3 men to re-arange her whole house after cleaning, she paid the pizza and drinks, we were there 7 hours, and when her husband came home ......he wanted most of it back in the original position or after discussing with his wife moved elsewhere....another 4 hours.......she gave us each $10.00 tip and the total bill was $ 495.00/moving furniture.........$325.00 / Cleaning......gave me a checque for $ 820.00 and guess what........IT BOUNCED.    I NEVER MOVE FURNITURE.

                       NIGHTRIDER   Finally got my money 100.00/ month

Stanley, get a helper to move ,pad, and pull hoses.

 

cleaning wall to wall carpet means just that clean it all,so what if it takes longer to do the job correctly since you charge enough to cover all the expenses, leave the half cleaning jobs to the splash and dash artists. do the best possiable work and the rewards in the end will be yours.you will have so many referrals that your  sore back will come from carrying your money to the bank

Steamdragon be careful of your wording telling Stanley to get help padding. I already read where from time to time Stanley uses terry cloth toweling to absorb soil.

Lets not get Pad Man too excited. He eventually will convert us all but lets make it more difficult for him. I know Ted still has a warehouse full of Ninja's to sell.

everything is relative.  if you do an empty 1 bedroom apartment for 69.00, why would you do a fully furnished suite for the same price.  adjust your prices according to the complexity of the job.  if it takes you 1/2 hour to move replace and pad the furniture, add 30-60 dollars(whatever you figure your time is worth to the job.  if i hire a plumber to fix a leaky pipe, he charges me extra for cutting into the drywall and then he doesn't put it back.  same thing