House movers in Surrey, BC. Local Movers Ltd moves detached homes, basement suites and townhouses across Surrey, billed on the actual hours your move takes and broken down before we start.
Honest hourly estimate. No obligation.
A house move is the biggest move most families ever make, and Surrey is a city of houses. In Newton and Fleetwood, that means 3 and 4 bedroom homes built between the 1960s and the 1990s, many on lots of 5,500 to 8,500 square feet with a full basement underneath. In Clayton Heights and Grandview Heights, it means newer builds from the 2000s onward. Local Movers Ltd has spent 6+ years moving both kinds, with our own crews on every job, so the people who quote your move are the people who carry your couch.
A house holds more than an apartment ever will. There’s a garage, a shed, a patio set, a freezer in the basement, and about twice the box count. We plan for all of it. Every dresser and table gets wrapped in moving blankets, the floors and door frames get protected at both houses, and the truck gets loaded in an order that survives the drive across Surrey. We’re also one of the largest delivery partners for IKEA, Cozey and Samsung, so sofas, flat-pack furniture and big TVs ride in our trucks every single day.
The pricing story is simple and it never changes. You pay for the actual hours your move takes, billed in 30-minute increments after the minimum charge, and you see the full breakdown before we start. No flat-rate guesswork, no padded invoice at the end. Call (778) 242-2877 and we’ll give you the hourly rate, the crew size and the minimum in about 5 minutes.
A full house move in Surrey usually means 3 or 4 bedrooms, a garage, and a basement that holds more than anyone remembers. We bring a bigger crew than we would for an apartment, walk the house before we load, and stage the heavy pieces first. Homes from the 1960s through the 1990s in Newton, Fleetwood and Guildford are our bread and butter, and the older character homes around 176 Street in Cloverdale get extra padding and slower hands.
Thousands of Surrey houses carry a mortgage-helper suite downstairs, and sometimes both households move at once. We load the main floor and the suite as separate, labelled sections, work the narrow basement stairs without scuffing the walls, and can run 2 drop-offs on the same booking when the households split up.
Pianos, safes, treadmills and stone tables need more than muscle. We bring the right dollies, straps and floor runners, plus a crew trained on stairs. If your move includes one monster piece, our heavy item movers handle it inside the same booking, on the same clock.
Want to hand off the whole job? Our full service option covers packing, moving and setup with one crew and one bill. We arrive 1 or 2 days before the truck with boxes, paper and shrink wrap, pack the kitchen and the fragile stuff room by room, and label every box so unloading goes twice as fast. Add packing services in Surrey for the whole house or just the rooms you dread.
On move day we take apart the beds, the dining table and the trampoline, then put them back together at the new house. As an IKEA delivery partner we rebuild flat-pack furniture every week, and our furniture assembly crew can build brand-new pieces at the new place too. If your possession dates don’t line up, our moving and storage option holds your load safe between houses.
Full service still runs on the same clock, packing day and move day both, with the breakdown in writing before anyone tapes a box. Most families pick a middle path: we pack the kitchen and the art, they pack the closets.
Townhouses are their own kind of house move, and Surrey has whole neighbourhoods of them. In Clayton Heights, streets of townhome complexes went up through the 2000s and street parking runs famously tight, so we lock in a loading spot before the truck rolls. In Newton, most strata townhouses are 3-bed units from the 1990s and 2000s at 1,150 to 1,350 square feet, with narrow complex driveways a full-size truck has to respect.
Inside, a townhouse move is a stair move. Three floors, tight switchback staircases, and a garage on the bottom level. Our crews carry king mattresses, sectionals and dressers down those stairs every week without marking the paint. We handle the strata side too: move windows, damage deposits and loading rules where they apply. Moving within one pocket of the city? See what we do street by street with our Cloverdale movers and our Newton moving crew.
You pay for the hours your house move takes, broken down before we start. Never a flat-rate guess.
The team that quotes your house move is the team that shows up and does it.
Hundreds of Surrey moves, rated five stars by 370+ customers.
One of the largest delivery partners for IKEA, Cozey and Samsung.
Tell us the house size, both addresses and your date. We give you an honest hourly estimate up front.
A 4-bedroom house gets a bigger crew than a 2-bed townhouse, so the hours stay honest.
Wrapped, padded, floors protected at both houses. The clock only runs while we work.
Beds rebuilt, boxes in the right rooms. You check the time sheet, that’s the bill.
Real five-star reviews from Surrey homeowners, straight from Google.
Here’s the whole pricing story. We bill on time. You pay for the actual hours your move takes, billed in 30-minute increments after the minimum charge, and you see the breakdown up front. No guesswork, no padded invoice, no surprise fee at the end.
Four things decide how many hours a house move takes. You control most of them.
A 2-bed half-duplex loads in a fraction of the time a 4-bed with a full basement does. Every extra room adds carry time, and time is what you pay for.
A flat driveway 10 steps from the front door keeps the crew moving. A townhouse with a visitor stall half a block away adds minutes to every trip. Save the closest spot at both ends and the whole move finishes sooner.
A move inside Surrey, say Fleetwood to Cloverdale, keeps drive time short. Crossing the Port Mann on Highway 1 at rush hour does not. We plan the route and the load for one clean trip, so you’re not paying for two.
Pack your own boxes and you keep hours off the clock. Want it handled? We pack the kitchen, the closets or the whole house 1 or 2 days before, so move day starts loaded and fast.
We do this at volume. Local Movers Ltd runs house moves 7 days a week across all of Surrey, from South Surrey up to Guildford. Call (778) 242-2877, tell us about your house, and we’ll give you the hourly rate, the crew size and the minimum in about 5 minutes.
Our crews watch families hit the same snags on every street in Surrey. Here are the 10 tips we give every homeowner who books with us.
South Surrey sits down on the Semiahmoo Peninsula, and the houses down there move nothing like a townhouse in Newton. Around Morgan Creek the homes are big executive detached houses on large lots, with long driveways that a full-size truck can’t always back down. On a move like that we walk the whole property first, pick the parking spot that keeps the carry short, and bring a bigger crew because a house that size fills a truck fast. A 4-bedroom estate home with a garage and a finished basement runs a 4-person crew a solid day, billed on the actual hours worked, and we hand you that hourly rate, the crew size and the minimum before we lift a box.
Access is the other South Surrey twist. Crescent Beach has only two roads in, Crescent Road and McBride Avenue, and both cross the BNSF rail line, so we time the load around it instead of getting boxed in. Up in Grandview Heights, the newer detached homes and townhomes near Grandview Corners are easier to reach off Highway 99, but this pocket is car-dependent with no SkyTrain, so we plan the drive and the load for one clean trip. Moving into or out of the peninsula? See how we work the area with our South Surrey movers.
We bill on time, on the actual hours your move takes, billed in 30-minute increments after the minimum charge. We break that down for you before we start, so you see the hourly rate, the crew size and the minimum in writing. We don’t quote flat rates, because a 2-bed half-duplex and a 4-bed house with a full basement are not the same job. Call (778) 242-2877 and we’ll walk you through it.
It depends on three things: how much you own, the access at both houses, and the drive between them. A townhouse move inside one neighbourhood takes far fewer hours than a 4-bedroom move across the city. When you call, we ask about all three and give you an honest hour estimate up front, not a lowball number that grows on move day.
All the time. Townhouses in Clayton Heights and Newton make up a big share of our week. Three floors, tight stairs, a garage on the bottom, visitor parking half a block away. We plan the loading spot ahead, size the crew for stairs and keep the same time-based billing.
Yes. Lots of Surrey houses have a mortgage-helper suite downstairs, and the two households don’t always head to the same place. We load them as separate, labelled sections and can run separate drop-offs on the same booking.
Yes. Bed frames, dining tables, sectionals, trampolines and swing sets come apart at the old house and go back together at the new one. We’re an IKEA delivery partner, so flat-pack furniture is routine for our crews.
That happens a lot when possession dates don’t line up. We offer moving and storage, so your load stays wrapped and safe with us for the gap, then arrives at the new house when the keys do. One crew, one bill, no rented garage.
Our own crew, every time. We never subcontract your move out to another company. The same Local Movers Ltd team that books your house move is the team that shows up, loads and unloads.
All of them. Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale and Clayton Heights, Guildford, Whalley and Surrey City Centre, plus South Surrey down to Grandview Heights. Our base sits on 164 Street in Surrey, so most houses in the city are minutes away.
Yes, all the time. The bigger detached houses around Morgan Creek and Grandview Heights fill a truck fast, so we bring a larger crew and walk the property first to pick the shortest carry off those long driveways. It’s still time-based billing. A 4-bedroom estate home with a basement runs a 4-person crew a solid day, and you get the hourly rate, the crew size and the minimum in writing before we start.
Local crews, billed on actual time, no surprise fees. Get your free estimate today.
Local Movers Ltd · 8567 164 St, Surrey, BC V4N 3K4 · (778) 242-2877 · Open Mon-Sun
