Loading and Unloading Labor on the Eastside
Sometimes you’ve already got the truck. Maybe you rented a moving truck, ordered a pod, or you’re driving a trailer yourself and you just need strong, experienced hands to load it right. Redmond Movers does labor-only loading and unloading with our own trained crew — the same movers who run full jobs, just billed for the muscle instead of the truck.
From Bellevue to Sammamish, Redmond Movers writes the entire move as one fixed number — the same figure on move day as on the estimate.
Loading is a skill, not just lifting
A rental truck loaded loose is a truck full of damage by the time it reaches Spokane over the pass or the Bay Area down I-5. Our crew loads tight and weight-balanced — heavy low, fragile braced, everything strapped so it can’t shift on a freeway or a steep grade. We pad and dolly your furniture and appliances rather than dragging them, and the same care applies whether we’re filling your container in Redmond or emptying it at the destination.
Stairs, basements, and elevators included
Labor-only doesn’t mean we stop at the curb. Our crew runs the daylight-basement stairs, the split-level landings, and the high-rise freight elevator exactly the way we would on a full move. We bring the dollies, straps, and pads, and we protect the path on both ends.
Rain doesn’t get a pass
Even on a labor job we lay floor runners and pad the doorways, because it’s the Eastside and it’s probably wet. Keeping your floors clean and your furniture dry is part of how we work, not an upsell.
What it costs
Loading and unloading labor runs on our straight hourly rate — $169 an hour for a two-mover crew or $229 an hour for three, with no one-hour minimum to inflate a short job. For a small load two movers is usually enough; for a packed house or a lot of stairs, three movers simply finish faster. Tell us the size of the load and the access, and we’ll tell you which crew is the better value.
Booking it
Booking takes a $135 deposit, which we then apply against the final bill. Work our crew performs is covered, and we’ll talk through how coverage applies on a load-only job — since you own the truck, it’s worth a quick conversation up front. Get my free moving quote.
What’s included
- You supply the rental truck, pod, or trailer — we send an experienced Redmond Movers crew to load or unload it by the hour, with no minimum on the equipment you bring
- Tight, weight-balanced loading so your gear survives the I-90 pass or the I-5 run
- Furniture and appliances padded and dollied — no bare drag across your floors
- Floor runners and door protection laid for the Eastside wet, even on labor-only jobs
- Two movers at $169/hr or three at $229/hr, the one-hour minimum waived
- Stair-carries, basement runs, and high-rise elevator loads handled by the same trained crew
How the price gets set
It begins with a short walkthrough or video estimate, and from your actual inventory we write one flat Eastside rate — no hourly clock buried anywhere in it. What that sheet reads is the whole price, with nothing tacked on once the truck is loaded.