Bears Moving Co. moves single-family houses in Sandy Springs — the bedrooms plus the garage, attic, basement, shed, and patio that come with them. A larger Sandy Springs house runs 8–10+ hours with a 3- or 4-mover crew once the terrace level, garage, and patio are counted; a three-bedroom runs 4–8 hours.
One hourly rate covers the crew, the truck, fuel and drive time, blankets, shrink wrap, dollies, floor runners, door-jamb protection, and basic bed, table, and TV disassembly and reassembly. Licensed GA HHG #9320, fully insured, no per-stair fees and no long-carry charge for a driveway the truck can't reach.
Bears Moving Co. runs whole-house moves in Sandy Springs the way homeowners actually need them run: walked, counted, staged, and loaded in one day. Houses in Sandy Springs run large: four and five bedrooms, formal dining rooms, finished terrace levels, a three-car garage, and enough square footage that the load count surprises people who have only moved out of an apartment before.
We scope by bedroom count first and then by the rooms that aren't bedrooms — because those are what decide the truck size. Terrace-level gyms, wine fridges, safes, pool tables, patio sets, and garage storage systems are routine on these jobs, and each one changes the crew and the truck. We flag them at quote time instead of discovering them at 9 a.m.
Most Sandy Springs houses have room for the truck, but the carry is long — gated entries, circular drives, stone steps, and hardwood or marble that gets floor runners and corner guards before a single item moves.
Floor runners, corner guards, and door-jamb pads go down before the first item leaves the house, and furniture is wrapped in the room it's standing in rather than out on the driveway where the weather gets a vote.
If the house is in a neighborhood with an HOA gate, a narrow cul-de-sac, or a shared drive, tell us at booking and we'll plan the approach instead of improvising with a loaded truck in the street.
We move in and out of the Roswell Road apartment corridor (Aria, The Westwood, Gables Sandy Springs, MAA Sandy Springs, Estates at Perimeter Center), the homes around Riverside Drive, the gated communities off Spalding (Country Club of the South, Spalding Lake), the Dunwoody Panhandle subdivisions, and the townhomes near Hammond Drive and Perimeter.
Our crews know which Roswell Road complexes share a single freight elevator across a tower (where timing matters most), which Spalding-corridor neighborhoods have HOA-mandated truck-staging zones, and where on Mount Vernon Highway you can stage a 26-foot truck without blocking traffic. We've also done plenty of office moves in the Perimeter business district and around the Concourse towers.
Sandy Springs homeowners usually move house-to-house within the same few zip codes, downsize to a smaller home after the kids leave, or relocate out of state with a job. The Sandy Springs areas we load houses out of most: Riverside, North Springs, Dunwoody Panhandle, and Spalding Drive corridor.
Sandy Springs splits down the middle: the Roswell Road corridor is dense with garden-style and mid-rise apartment complexes (The Westwood, Aria, Gables Sandy Springs, Estates at Perimeter Center) that require COIs and reserved elevator slots; the rest of the city is large, single-family suburban homes off Mount Vernon, Spalding, Dalrymple, and Riverside, often with side-load garages, basement levels, and 4–5 bedrooms.
The two halves call for very different crews: a 2-mover apartment crew with a 16-foot truck handles most Roswell Road one-bedrooms; a 4-mover crew with a 26-foot truck is standard for a North Springs or Riverside full-house move. GA-400 access is about 25 minutes off-peak but slips to 50+ during 7–9am or 4–6:30pm, so we time-shift Sandy Springs starts to 9am whenever the destination calendar allows.
Washers, dryers, standalone freezers, refrigerators, grills, riding and push mowers, tool chests, workbenches, shelving units, and patio sets all move with us. Appliances are disconnected only when the lines are simple shutoffs — gas and hardwired connections need a licensed tech, and we'll tell you that before move day rather than after.
Fuel comes out of mowers, blowers, and generators before they load; propane tanks travel separately or not at all. That's a safety rule on every Sandy Springs house move, not a preference.
A larger Sandy Springs house runs 8–10+ hours with a 3- or 4-mover crew once the terrace level, garage, and patio are counted; a three-bedroom runs 4–8 hours. A three-bedroom house with a full garage usually needs a bigger truck than the bedroom count suggests, which is why we ask about the garage, the attic, and the shed on the phone.
Two trips with a small truck costs more than one trip with the right one.
Loading order matters on a house: heaviest and squarest first, mattresses and long items on the walls, boxes filling the voids, and the fragile pieces loaded last so they come off first at the new address.
Everything bills at one transparent hourly rate covering the crew, the truck, fuel and drive time, all pads and wrap, dollies and straps, floor and doorway protection, and basic disassembly and reassembly. There is no per-stair fee, no long-carry fee, no fuel surcharge, and no equipment rental line.
Sandy Springs apartment moves typically finish in 2–4 hours with a 2-mover crew. Suburban 3-bedroom homes run 4–8 hours with a 3-mover crew, and 4-to-5 bedroom homes — common off Mount Vernon and Riverside — run 8–10+ hours with a 3- or 4-mover crew and may need two trucks for a single-day completion. Drive time is included in the hourly rate.
The pricing miscalculation we most often correct for Sandy Springs customers: under-staffing a large home with a 2-mover crew to save money up front, which then turns into a 12-hour day at single-mover speed. We'd rather quote you the right crew size and finish on schedule.
You get a real arrival window the day before with your crew lead's name. We walk the whole house with you — including the garage, attic hatch, basement, and shed — flag the fragile and high-value pieces, set protection, and start loading. Time starts when the truck arrives and stops when the last item is placed.
At the new house we walk it again before anything comes off the truck so furniture lands in the right rooms the first time. Beds and tables are reassembled, boxes go to the rooms they're labeled for, and the wrap and blankets leave with us.
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A larger Sandy Springs house runs 8–10+ hours with a 3- or 4-mover crew once the terrace level, garage, and patio are counted; a three-bedroom runs 4–8 hours. It bills at one transparent hourly rate covering the crew, truck, fuel, drive time, pads, wrap, dollies, floor protection, and basic disassembly and reassembly — no per-stair fee and no fuel surcharge.
Yes — that's the difference between a house move and an apartment move. Shelving, tool benches, lawn equipment, deep freezers, holiday storage, bikes, and patio furniture are all part of a Sandy Springs house move as long as we count them in the walkthrough.
Most Sandy Springs houses have room for the truck, but the carry is long — gated entries, circular drives, stone steps, and hardwood or marble that gets floor runners and corner guards before a single item moves. If the truck can't reach the door, there's still no long-carry fee — we shuttle with dollies and the hourly rate covers it.
Yes. Washers, dryers, refrigerators, and freezers move with us; simple shutoff disconnects are fine, but gas lines and hardwired connections need a licensed technician before we arrive.
A two-bedroom typically runs 3–6 hours, a three-bedroom 4–8 hours, and four bedrooms or more 8–10+ hours. How finished your packing is, stairs, and how much lives in the garage are the real variables.
Homeowners pack and label their own boxes and we move everything. We don't sell packing services or storage. Furniture wrapping, padding, basic disassembly, and reassembly are always included.
Yes — Bears Moving Co. is a Georgia-licensed household goods carrier, GA HHG #9320, BBB A+ accredited, with full cargo and liability insurance on every Sandy Springs house move.