How Much Does It Cost to Hire Packers and Movers for Shifting?
Planning to shift your home or office and thinking of hiring a shifting company to shift your goods and not sure how much it costs to hire a professional movers and packers company for your shifting? So this article will clear your doubts Well, shifting and relocation charges vary on several factors. So it is obvious, the overall cost and charges of relocation will depend on your specific requirements.
So what are the factors and how does it impact the overall charges of shifting and relocation? Let’s explore and check them out. Shall we?
Volume and weight of goods
Packers and Movers companies will charge you for packing, loading, transporting and unloading. So it is obvious if there are more items then the cost will be more. If you have fewer items then it’s going to cost you less.
Depending on the volume and number of items to be packed and moved, packers and movers companies will estimate the cost of packing materials, manpower required to pack them, cost of loading, transporting and unloading those materials.
Bonus Tip: Be careful and prepare a list of inventory you really want to get shifted, and get rid of other items.
Quality of packing materials
Packers and movers spend a good amount of money on packing materials and transporting. Rest of the process involves their own services where they have some scope of offering you discounts or charging you a little less. But they don’t have any control on materials that they buy from the market.
There are different qualities of packing materials and what quality and what materials will be required will impact the cost. Movers and packers may give you options and you can take a call accordingly.
Bonus Tip: if you are too price conscious, you may try using old/used cardboard boxes for usual items like books and other materials that may not get damaged easily.
Distance between source and destination cities
Packers and movers companies will charge you the cost of transportation and there is very little scope of negotiation. Most of the time the moving company has their own fleet and if they have to hire a truck as per your need, then the cost is almost fixed.
Even if the rest of the process (packing, loading, unloading etc) is same for local and long distance shifting, the cost varies depending on the distance between both the locations.
Add-on services
Apart from packing materials and transportation, the rest of the cost is for the services that a moving company offers. Noida Packers are going to charge you for packing, loading and unloading.
But movers and packers companies also offer add-on services like unpacking, rearranging of goods, making arrangements for your travel etc. These add-on services are charged separately. So whether you want these services or not is totally up to you and they will adjust their charges accordingly.
Bonus Tip: try and handle unpacking and rearranging yourself to save these charges.
Accessibility and Facilities at source and destination
Finally the cost of shifting also depends on the facilities. For example if you are staying in a 3BHK apartment on the 5th floor and there is no lift in the building, and there is a similar situation at the destination then they will charge you more.
But if you have lift at both places and lift can be accessed to load and unload goods, then their labor charges will be much lesser.
Similarly if the vehicle has to be parked far away then the cost will increase and if the vehicle can be parked just behind the building, the cost will go down.
Apart from these major factors, assume a fixed service tax (applicable in India), cost of insurance etc.
I am sure by now you have got a good idea of how these packers and movers companies charge and what are the main factors that affect the cost.
