Movers in Exeter | Smart Move

Drop south of Portsmouth along NH-101 and NH-108 and you land in Exeter, a town with deep history where our work tends to fall into two distinct camps. Down by the bandstand and Water Street stand white-clapboard colonials and slim side streets, plenty of them hundreds of years old with no driveway and curbside parking that vanishes by mid-morning; meanwhile Phillips Exeter Academy keeps a steady beat of faculty, dorm, and family moves going. Push out past the historic core and the lots widen into newer single-family homes. A typical job for us is clearing a three-bedroom colonial off a downtown side street before a sale, or relocating a faculty household near the academy. Cole Bennett logged years running the trucks and the dispatch board for New England movers before founding the company in 2014, so the cramped historic access and the delicate footwork an old clapboard house demands feel routine to the crews.

We scout an Exeter move before the date, because the street usually settles how we work. On the downtown side streets where a colonial has no driveway and the curb empties fast, we reserve the truck spot in advance and keep the haul to the door brief, holding a smaller truck on standby for blocks the big rig cannot thread. Steep front steps call for a ramp and a hand to guide, and inside an old clapboard house the crew wraps the original staircase and rail before anything weighty heads up it. Our W-2 crews box and load under our own roof, shield the historic woodwork and plaster, and never subcontract. Full households, apartments, faculty and student moves, offices, pianos we cover the lot. The trucks stay padded against warm summers, and come winter we lay floor protection and salt-and-slush runners, ask for a plowed and shoveled path, and build the day around the nor’easters.

Pricing is flat-rate and on paper before a box leaves the floor. Locally, Exeter is $135 an hour for two movers, $175 for three, $225 for four; as a flat band, a two-bedroom usually falls $1,140 to $1,950 and a four-bedroom $3,180 to $5,000. Holding a gap between homes? Climate-controlled storage runs about $110 to $280 a month by size. Smart Move holds US DOT and MC authority, stays licensed and insured across New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts, and carries $1M in cargo coverage. Get a firm number from Cole on the estimate page, then see how our local moves work.