Family Owned Labor-Only Movers
Big Water, Utah

What the job involves in Big Water

We treat every Big Water labor-only movers job as a logistics problem first and a lifting problem second. With roughly 502 residents, Big Water is a smaller community in Kane County, and that shows up in the job: largely detached properties, long driveways and very little kerbside constraint.

The estimate is written, the crew size is set from the survey, and the price does not move on the day unless the job does.

How we run a Big Water job

There is no mystery to it. The sequence is the same every time, which is what makes it predictable.

• Crew only — you supply the truck or container, we supply the people
• Loading to a plan so the container carries without shifting in transit
• Protection and padding brought with the crew
• Hourly billing with the crew size agreed in advance
• Unloading and placement at the far end if you want it

The part people underestimate is the survey. An estimate given over the phone from a room count is a guess, and a guess is what turns into an argument on the day when the truck is full and the hallway is not empty.

Nothing here is subcontracted. The crew that quotes the job is employed by the company that turns up to do it, which is not true of every quote you will be comparing.

Moving around Big Water

Most of our Big Water work sits around Big Water town centre and Lake Powell gateway, and each of those areas asks something slightly different of a crew — access, parking, the age of the housing, whether there is a lift involved.

We are usually in Kanab, Orderville and Glendale in the same week, so a labor-only movers job here rarely needs a separate trip charge — and if your move crosses between them, it is one crew rather than a handover.

Big Water runs on tourism, lake recreation and hospitality, and that shapes who is moving and when: the busy weeks follow the local employers, not the national moving season.

Everything here is covered from our own crews rather than subcontracted to whoever is free that day — Kane County included.

The company started here in 2012 and expanded north later, which means a Big Water to Salt Lake corridor move is a route we run regularly rather than an out-of-area job.

Who actually turns up to a labor-only movers job in Big Water

This is Justin and Miranda Ruuth's business, started in 2012 and still run by them. The crews are employed and background-checked, not day labour hired for the date.

That matters for the question nobody asks out loud, which is who is going to be walking through my house. You get the same company on the phone, on the estimate and on the day.

If something goes wrong, the person you complain to is the person who owns the company. That is worth more than a guarantee written on a website.

Booking, timing and cost in Big Water

Heat decides the working hours here for a good part of the year. Summer loads start early for a reason, and a crew still carrying at two in the afternoon in July is a crew making mistakes.

Book earlier than feels necessary for month-end and for anything between May and September; those dates go first.

Have these to hand when you call and the estimate will be a number rather than a range:

• A rough inventory, even a phone video walked room to room — it is the single thing that makes an estimate accurate
• Your dates, including the one that cannot move and the one that can
• Anything unusually heavy or awkward: a safe, a piano, a tub, a treadmill, a fish tank
• Access notes at both ends — stairs, lifts, gates, parking, gate codes
• What is NOT coming with you, which is often the cheapest decision in the whole move

Call (435) 862-3080. We will ask what is moving, where from and where to, and give you a written number rather than a range.