One number, the same for every home we take. Not a starting point, not an estimate, and not the first line of a longer conversation.
It is a lot of money, and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise. Here is where it goes: the two of us give you an entire day, take no other work that day, and turn nobody else's key that week if yours runs long. Everything the day needs is already bought before we arrive.
The worst part of hiring movers is not knowing — watching an hourly clock, wondering what counts as extra, waiting for the invoice. We took that away by making it impossible. There is nothing to add up afterwards.
If that's more than the move is worth to you, we understand completely, and we'd tell you the same thing over the phone.
What isn't included is nothing. That's the entire idea, and it took us years to be able to afford to run it that way.
No travel charge, no materials line, no rate for the stairs, no surcharge because the piano turned out to be a piano. If something takes longer than we thought, that's our problem and it stays our problem.