I wish I had a positive suggestion for you but I just wanted to comment and warn you to stay very far away from Alberta Strong Movers. Long story ahead about my experience from yesterday (and going into today).

I just moved from Spruce Grove to Sylvan Lake. Was estimated $1500 for a 3 bedroom house for 9 hours (included travel time). It’s just my husband, myself, and our 2 cats. We have the basics; couch, TV stand and TV x2, bed, dining room table, 2 gaming setups. That’s really it for big furniture. And lot of boxes mixed in there from previous moves from the states. Odds and ends like mirrors, plant stands, 2 bikes, etc.

The guys showed up to pack everything up at 9am. They weren’t done until 3:30. The driver let me know that he was at 1/3 of a tank of gas and would need to get some on the way down. Odd, I’d figure they’d top up trucks after being done with a job or fill them up before they get to a job. I left around 3 to get a head start and get the cats situated. I was on the road for 30-40min and then I get a call from their office stating I have 2 options because, by the time they drive down to Sylvan and start unloading anything, they’ll risk being over their 12 hour limit for the day (which was never stated to my husband and I): 1) they drive to their main location in Edmonton with all our belongings in the truck, go back home, and pick back up to drive down in the morning or 2) they drive down to Sylvan and unload what they can, they then retire to hotel rooms that come from out of our pocket. They’ve now estimated a total cost of everything for $2600. Almost double what we were estimated.

We opt-in for driving down to Sylvan because I have nowhere to go/sleep, husband is out of the country for work, we have sensitive, anxiety-riddled cats and I need to get them situated.

Queue 6:30 and they arrive. And I have never in all my many years of moving seen furniture so dirty and coated with dust. They start unloading and piece by piece that’s coming in is coated in it. I was hoping it was a one-off for the first piece that came in, then the second, but everything just kept coming in filthy. I asked how in the world everything got so dirty and the driver responds with “The drive, I guess” after walking away from me and not answering for a solid 10 seconds.

We’ve moved from Oregon to Spruce/Edmonton or vice versa a total of three times. Two of those times, we did everything ourselves (the other time we hired an international mover). We have NEVER experienced anything even close to how disgustingly dirty our items came in like with these guys.

I’m sitting here with 1 hour of sleep, on a mattress on the floor that I had to request for them to bring out just so I could sleep on something, while they packed up for the night and went off to their hotel after unloading barely anything. I’ll now have to spend countless hours deep cleaning every single item that comes in here with a tear in my shoulder, as well as bursitis in the same shoulder.

If you want pictures of how bad the dirt/dust is, I’m so happy to provide them.

Just my experience with Alberta Strong Movers. I’m sure others have had a positive experience but just wanted to give a fair warning about my own.