- Feb 22, 2005
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There was a thread a few days back where someone was asking how much it'd cost for 2 guys to do 3 hours of work in the DC area, and some people were saying that $350 (which included the truck) was a ripoff.
Well I just spent $45 on a truck for 5 hours, and between myself, my father-in-law, and a friend of his (about my age or a few years older) we just moved an entire apartment worth of furniture in about 3 hours flat. The past two days I've been doing trips back and forth with the car full of small boxes, bags of clothes, baby toys, things like that. Today it was just:
3-seat couch
2-seat couch
6' solid wood wall unit (6Lx1Dx6H)
Queen sized bed/matt/boxspring
Desk
Shelf unit
Crib
Changing table
Dining table
Chairs
27" CRT TV
24" CRT TV
3 dressers
Recliner
Coffee table
Doesn't sound like much, but it's all hardwood that my father-in-law passed down to us when we got our first place, so it's HEAVY, and the staircase in this place is absolute hellishly narrow. Now I have to place it all, put it back together, and I'm absolutely dead tired.
Would it have been worth $350 for someone else to do it while I sat back and pounded a few beers? Absolutely. Too bad in a few years we'll be looking for somewhere bigger as the kids grow up and want their own rooms, and at that point I think I'll simply pay someone else to do the heavy work.
Edit:
Computer was the first thing setup BTW, cable services were up and running before we even walked through the door, I made sure of that. I've even re-wired all the wall jacks, replacing the old ones with nice new modular ones with telephone/network/coax plugs in each room.
Well I just spent $45 on a truck for 5 hours, and between myself, my father-in-law, and a friend of his (about my age or a few years older) we just moved an entire apartment worth of furniture in about 3 hours flat. The past two days I've been doing trips back and forth with the car full of small boxes, bags of clothes, baby toys, things like that. Today it was just:
3-seat couch
2-seat couch
6' solid wood wall unit (6Lx1Dx6H)
Queen sized bed/matt/boxspring
Desk
Shelf unit
Crib
Changing table
Dining table
Chairs
27" CRT TV
24" CRT TV
3 dressers
Recliner
Coffee table
Doesn't sound like much, but it's all hardwood that my father-in-law passed down to us when we got our first place, so it's HEAVY, and the staircase in this place is absolute hellishly narrow. Now I have to place it all, put it back together, and I'm absolutely dead tired.
Would it have been worth $350 for someone else to do it while I sat back and pounded a few beers? Absolutely. Too bad in a few years we'll be looking for somewhere bigger as the kids grow up and want their own rooms, and at that point I think I'll simply pay someone else to do the heavy work.
Edit:
Computer was the first thing setup BTW, cable services were up and running before we even walked through the door, I made sure of that. I've even re-wired all the wall jacks, replacing the old ones with nice new modular ones with telephone/network/coax plugs in each room.