TBM and others with pro moves lately

[tarheels]

Do you know how much the movers have estimated your stuff to weigh?  We're authorized 17,000 lbs for this move and I have no earthly idea how much our last move weighed to try to figure out if we're going to be in trouble or if we'll be fine. 

I've read to estimate 1,500 lbs per room (and we come up at 13,500 lbs that way if I overestimate), but I'd like to hear something like "my 2000 sq ft house with a fully furnished LR but scantly furnished bedrooms came out at X lbs."

[mrs.jacinthe]

Off the top of my head, our last move was an 1800 square foot house with most of the furniture, including a ridiculous quantity of wood (some black walnut R is saving for a big, deserving furniture project (its probably 70 years old and apparently really rare), a piano, etc. I think we came in at around 8000 pounds, although I'd have to dig the paperwork up to verify that.

[TBM]

We are meeting with the movers on Tuesday morning, so until then, I have no clue.

[niknik]

Just have them give you a to not exceed price. The estimator will come out and estimate your weight. My last move was 14k pounds and I had a do not exceed. It was 17k but I didn't pay a penny more. 
Actually I have regularly been overweight but have always moved with a not to exceed price (if the weight is lower they would adjust though to the lower price)

[TBM]

The guy from the moving company just left. I asked him how he estimates, and he said that a normal job, he figures 1000 lbs per room.

Not ours, of course...he made a point of letting me know that ours was not a normal job (and he didn't say it in a very nice way). I think it was because we aren't moving very much furniture, mostly stuff, but it could be because he was annoyed that the house looks like something between "we're moving!" and hoarders. ;p


He was kind of a jerk through the whole thing, until I asked him about estimating weight. Then he only stopped being a jerk when I explained that it had nothing to do with our move, that I was asking for someone else that was moving.

[niknik]

Next

All of our people have been so nice and upbeat. We had a lot of stuff too, more that than furniture. If they start out like that, move on. I got 4 estimates with my last move and all of them were fantastic and gave me a estimated poundage and a do not exceed price. I have also never had an estimator estimate like that with a general figure per room.

[aimeedyan]

When you get your estimates, just have them give you a 'not to exceeed' cost and make sure that cost falls under the 17,000 lb cost. KWIM?

All three of our estimates came to similar weight but at the end of the day, it didn't really matter if it officially went over because we only paid what the estimate was.

I wish I could remember what our weight was... but I can't, and have no idea where that paperwork is now.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ok, so I looked it up. My first move was estimated 5400 pounds for a 900+ sq foot duplex - 2br, 1ba, with basement and 1-car garage. I went a little over.
Our second move was estimated at 5500 pounds for a 700+ square foot house, 2br, 2ba, plus the contents of a shed.
Our third move was estimated at 8400 pounds - 1800 sq ft house, 3br, 2.5ba, single-car garage, including R's woodworking stuff and our piano. I think we were over on that estimate, too.

All three moves were done as not-to-exceed quotes.

[TBM]

Mar 26, 2013 12:11:16 GMT -5 niknik said:

Next

 If they start out like that, move on.

I wish, but we are dealing with a relocation company and they pick the movers.


In all fairness to the guy, I could have been better prepared.  DH had originally planned to deal with the mover, but his office scheduled him to interview a prospective employee this morning so he had to go in to the office.  DH left me under prepared, and he gave me a bunch of questions to ask, but forgot to give me adequate information.  I have a splitting headache today, so I may not have been at my best.

He was kind of impatient though.   He knocked on the door when I was upstairs, and the dogs started barking and running around.  I called them and locked them up as soon as I got to the bottom of the stairs, and he knocked again, harder.  I am pretty sure that I had yelled "just a minute" when I was on my way down the stairs, less than a minute before the second knock, but he seemed really perturbed by the time that I answered the door.

Thankfully, he won't be the person packing or moving our stuff.

[tarheels]

Ours is also a company-paid move, so we have no say in quotes or anything like that. (And it's probably why I've never heard of a NTE price and really didn't know what yall were talking about.) The company will pay for up to 17,000 lbs on the weight ticket, the end. Anything more than that is on us, either to pay for them to move in the same truck or to get a U-Haul and do it ourselves. That's why I wanted to know specifically how much stuff is how much weight...to try to predict if we've got to be prepared to fool with a U-Haul or set aside money.  Thanks, mrs. j, for taking the time to look up your lbs - I appreciate it

Aw, TBM thank you for asking the cranky guy for me! I'm touched that you'd deal with the jerk even one second longer. (hug)