Field notes from Ahuntsic to the North Shore
Moving guide: what we learned carrying everything
Fourteen guides written between two loads: calendars that hold, packing methods that survive a truck, stairs that get measured before they get climbed.
Read by theme
Calendars, labels and the paperwork of a move
The planning guides start six weeks out: sorting before the first folded box, a numbered list photographed on your phone, and screw packets taped to the furniture they belong to. The office-lease guide works the same logic backward from a signed deadline — commercial notices run three to six months, and the move slots into the gap.
The labelling guides cover both worlds: workstations tagged by colour and cable number so an office reopens Monday, and room-by-room box labels so the kitchen lands in the kitchen. Same marker, same discipline, two very different Monday mornings.
Fragile and heavy
Dishes that survive, pianos that fit
The packing guide takes the position that newspaper stains: ink migrates onto plates and crystal, so dishes travel standing in double-wall cells on tissue paper, and framed glass rides on edge in mirror boxes. Written between two loads, it names the materials and the order they stack in the truck.
The heavy guides count what matters before the strap: an upright piano is 300 kilograms of cast iron under twenty tonnes of string tension, four movers with skid boards, a flight measured landing by landing. The safe guide applies the same brake-controlled descent to 300 kilos of steel that never travels at arm's length.
Trucks, containers and winters
What rides in the box, and where it sleeps
The transport guides measure the box for you: a sixteen-foot container holds roughly 800 cubic feet, a twenty-footer a thousand, and the loading guide builds the floor in tiers — heavy at the wall, three lock bars minimum, nothing loose above shoulder height. The long-distance guide weighs a shared truck's delivery window against a dedicated truck's firm date.
The storage and winter guides close the loop: furniture wintering ten centimetres off the concrete on pallets, cleaned and dried first, against the container sealed for months at a stretch. And the winter-mistakes guide walks the January side — salt on the walking boards, the snow-clearing rotation that tows a wrongly parked truck, and the movers who keep two hours of slack around a storm.
A question the guides don't answer?
Describe your move — room count, addresses, date — and a mover answers with a crew size, a truck and a written schedule.
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