Residential Moving in Hillsboro & Greater Portland: Done Like Butter
Family-Owned & Operated | ODOT #275978 · USDOT #3604556 | $150.35/hr for 2 Movers: No Hidden Fees | Google 4.8★ Rated | Open 7 AM–10 PM, Every Day
Moving your home is the one service where you hand strangers everything you own and hope. Butterfield Moving was built to remove the hope part. We're a family-owned Hillsboro moving company. Patrick and Amy Butterfield, their son Aiden, and a crew customers know by name, moving households across Beaverton, Aloha, Portland, Tigard, Tualatin, Lake Oswego, West Linn, Bethany, Forest Grove, and the rest of Greater Portland.
Every residential move runs the same way: a 26-foot truck, a right-sized crew of two to four professional movers, and full wrapping, padding, disassembly, and reassembly included in the published hourly rate. Specialty equipment rides on every truck. The price you hear on the estimate call is the price structure you're billed on. We built this company partly because too many movers reveal their real fees after the truck is loaded.
From a one-bedroom apartment to a 4,000-square-foot home, one call gets you Patrick or Amy, who price the move and book it, and answer for it on move day.
Wrapping & Padding Included
Stretch film, padded furniture blankets, floor runners, and door-jamb protection are part of the hourly rate; never add-on line items.
Published Pricing
$150.35/hr for 2 movers, 3-hour minimum. Compare us against any quote in Portland; ours is public.
Disassembly & Reassembly Included
Beds, tables, and sectionals come apart, travel safe, and go back together, beds and dining tables first, so your home works the same night.
Right-Sized Crews
Two movers for most homes, scaling to three or four only when square footage demands it, never to inflate the bill.
Reviewed by Name
Greater Portland families review Patrick, Aiden, Logan, and Ziggy personally. Read the live feed below.
Patrick and Amy Answer Every Call
Patrick and Amy take the calls and book the moves, 7 AM–10 PM, every day, with Patrick handling the walk-throughs.
Three Decisions That Decide What Your Move Actually Costs
Hiring the cheapest hourly rate instead of the fastest finished job
The most expensive mistake we see Greater Portland homeowners make is choosing a mover based on rate alone. A crew that bills $20 less per hour but works 40% slower, over-wrapping to eat clock, taking long resets, sending more movers than the job needs, costs you more by the end of the day, every time. What matters is the finished total: rate × hours × crew size. We publish our rate, size the crew honestly, and hustle. Our reviews use the word 'fast' more than any other.
Decision 1
Booking without the full cost picture
The number-one industry complaint, no-shows aside, is a final bill that doesn't match the quote. Movers get away with it because the painful conversation happens after your belongings are on their truck. Our estimate call covers the rate, the three-hour minimum, how travel time is billed, and any features of your home that affect the plan, such as stairs, elevators, parking, and specialty items. If a detail on move day changes the scope, you hear about it then, with options, not on the invoice.
Decision 2
Treating packing as an afterthought
Packing decides whether your move is one smooth day or a chaotic scramble. Done on move day at moving-crew rates, it's the most expensive way to fill a box. Booked as a pack day beforehand, $56.40 per hour per packer, it's often the cheapest insurance a move can buy: everything boxed, labeled, and staged before the truck ever arrives. On the estimate call, we'll tell you honestly whether your move needs a pack day, partial packing help, or none at all.
Decision 3
Every Kind of Home, Every Kind of Move
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• Single-family homes: every size, from starter ranch to 4,000+ sq ft estates
• Apartments and condos: studios through 3-bedroom, walk-up or elevator
• Townhomes and split-levels: including tight-garage, three-story Westside layouts
• Large square footage homes: our specialty, with scaled crews and multi-day planning
• Senior moves and downsizing: patient crews, family coordination
• First-occupancy moves into new construction across Hillsboro and Bethany
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• Local moves across town or across the street
• Long-distance moves anywhere within Oregon: Bend, Salem, the coast
• Same-day and emergency moves (about 75% of 1–2 bedroom requests are doable as afternoon moves)
• Closing-date crunches and back-to-back escrows
• Staged-home moves coordinated with your realtor
• Moves into or out of storage units, including our partner facility in Hillsboro
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• Fragile and high-value items: extra wrapping and padding time, planned into the estimate
• Antiques, fine art, and luxury furniture
• Pianos, gun safes, and pool tables (ask on the call: we'll tell you honestly what we can take on)
• Adjustable and tech beds, exercise equipment
• Glass, mirrors, and TVs: boxed in dedicated TV boxes
• Plants: yes, we move them
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• Stairs, walk-ups, and no-elevator buildings: no surcharge on local moves
• Building COIs, dock and elevator coordination: certificate of insurance usually within an hour
• Long carries from door to truck
• Narrow-street and tight-parking neighborhoods
• Rain-day moves: floor runners and shrink wrap standard, October through May
How a Butterfield Residential Move Runs
The estimate call: free, 7 AM–10 PM, every day
Patrick and Amy walk you through your starting and ending addresses, bedroom count, square footage, and any specialty items. Most residential estimates are completed on that first call, with the full cost structure explained—rate, minimum, travel time, and everything else.
Walk-through for larger homes: also free
For homes over 2,000 square feet, packing jobs, and specialty moves, we'll schedule a free in-person walk-through. Big moves quoted from a phone script are how other companies end up 'revising' the bill on move day.
Confirmation before move day
We confirm the week of the move and again the day before. Your crew, your window, your plan, no wondering.
Crew calls en route, walks the home on arrival
Your movers call when they leave, greet you at the door, and walk the house with you before touching anything. Floor runners go down if it's raining. The plan of attack gets agreed on first, then the hustle starts.
Wrap, pad, disassemble, load
Furniture gets padded and stretch-wrapped, beds and tables come apart with hardware bagged and labeled to each piece, and the truck is loaded with tie-downs and weight distribution that keep everything planted through Highway 26 curves.
Unload, reassemble, place: to your call
At the new home, beds and dining tables go together first, so the house works that night. Every box and piece lands in the room you call, and gets repositioned until you're happy. 'I asked them to put things wherever I wanted and so they did,' as one reviewer put it.
Final walkthrough and payment
The crew doesn't pull away until you've walked the whole job. Payment is due at completion, cash, check, or card, and a thank-you note follows. No deposit was required to get any of it scheduled.
Residential Moving Rates: Published, Not Hidden
Local residential moves bill hourly, with a three-hour minimum and wrapping, padding, disassembly, and reassembly included:
Standard Rate
Monday–Saturday, 7 AM–7 PM
2 movers + truck: $150.35 per hour
3 movers + truck: $206.75 per hour
4 movers + truck: $263.15 per hour
Each additional mover: $56.40 per hour
Overtime Rate
after 7 PM Monday–Saturday, and Sundays
2 movers: $195.20 per hour
3 movers, $273.40 per hour
4 movers, $351.60 per hour
Holiday rate (3-hour minimum): 2 movers $230.50 per hour · 3 movers $325.50 · 4 movers $420.50
Packing
before move day or during
Dedicated pack day: $56.40 per hour per packer (the budget-smart option)
Packing on move day: billed at the moving-crew rate above
Boxes: Small $6.30 · Medium $7.45 · Large $9.45 · Wardrobe $31.55 · TV box $55.85 per use ($199.65 to buy)
What you will NOT find on a Butterfield invoice
No deposits to book
No stair or long-carry surcharges on local moves
No wrapping, padding, or equipment line items
No month-end or weekend 'surge' pricing: Sundays bill at the published overtime rate, nothing more
Typical residential moves land between $500 and $900, depending on home size and distance; long-distance Oregon moves are quoted job-by-job on mileage and weight. You'll have your number before you book.
Our Reviews
Butterfield Moving vs. larger regional movers
| Feature | Butterfield Moving | Larger Regional Movers |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly rate published online | Yes, $150.35/hr, 2 movers | Hidden behind quote forms |
| Wrapping & padding | Included in the hourly rate | Frequently an upcharge |
| Disassembly & reassembly | Included, beds & tables first | Often, a separate fee or skipped |
| Crew sizing | Right-sized for the job | Padded to raise the hourly bill |
| Who quotes your move | Patrick (owner) | Call center or sales rep |
| Mid-move surprises | Explained live, with options | Revealed on the final invoice |
| Stair/long-carry fees (local) | None | Common line items |
| Deposit to book | None | Often required, sometimes non-refundable |
| Local knowledge | Hillsboro-based, Westside-first | Portland is one branch of many |
| Reviews | Name the actual movers | Name the brand, if that |
Moving in Washington County Is Not Generic: Neither Are We
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From October to May, the gap between your front door and the truck is a water hazard. Cardboard wicks up moisture and fails at the worst moment; upholstery gets stained; hardwood gets tracked. Our standard rain protocol, floor runners down first, furniture stretch-wrapped before it crosses the threshold, pads over fabric, exists because Oregon weather is a when, not an if.
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A move in Hillsboro's or Bethany's newer subdivisions usually means three-story townhomes, tight two-car garages, and HOA parking realities. A move in Portland's older close-in neighborhoods means narrow doorways, steep porch steps, and no driveway at all. The crew packs different equipment and different patience for each, and because we ask the right questions on the estimate call, the right setup is on the truck before we arrive.
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Washington County's apartment stock concentrates moves at month boundaries. Elevators get booked out, loading zones get contested, and buildings want certificates of insurance before a single box moves. We usually provide COIs within an hour, and we'll coach you on reserving the elevator. Buildings require the resident to book it, and the difference between a reserved elevator and a shared one can be two billable hours.
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May through September is moving season across Greater Portland, and the occasional 90-plus-degree stretch doesn't pause it. Our crews work summer moves early when possible, hydrate, and keep pace anyway. One July reviewer watched the crew finish on time in 90-degree weather after she'd assumed the day would be rescheduled.
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Hourly moves bill door-to-door, so geography is money. Dispatching from Hillsboro puts our trucks minutes from Beaverton, Aloha, Cedar Mill, and Bethany, which is exactly why Westside families are our sweet spot. Crossing to the east side or out to the coast range adds drive time. We'll calculate with you on the call, honestly, before you commit.
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Most Portland winters deliver at least one ice event that shuts the metro down. If your move lands on one, we'll talk options straight: reschedule flexibility with notice is built into how we book (no deposits, remember), and November–January is our most open calendar anyway, often the smartest time to move at all.
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We're an intrastate Oregon carrier: any move starting in our served counties can end anywhere in Oregon. Bend, Salem, the coast. What we don't do is cross state lines, including Vancouver, WA. A mover who knows its lane is a mover whose promises hold.
What Professional-Grade Residential Moving Actually Involves
Wrapping methodology: film, pads, and what gets which
Upholstered furniture gets padded blankets first, then commercial stretch film over the pads, film directly on fabric traps moisture and can mark finishes. Wood furniture gets pads secured with film at the rails, never tape on the finish. Mattresses can be bagged on request (we recommend buying your own encasement). Glass and mirrors travel padded and upright, TVs in dedicated TV boxes. The materials on our truck are the same ones we'd use on a high-value specialty move. Continental Western film, padded furniture blankets, proper tie-downs.
Disassembly and reassembly without the missing-bolt mystery
Every bed frame, dining table, and sectional that comes apart gets its hardware bagged and labeled to the piece it came from. Complex setups get photographed before teardown. At delivery, beds and dining tables go back together first. A household needs sleep and a table before it needs anything else, and the labeled hardware means reassembly takes minutes, not an archaeology dig.
Why our estimate questions sound nosy
Addresses, bedrooms, square footage, specialty items, every question on the call maps to a real cost variable: crew size, equipment, truck position, time. A mover who quotes without asking isn't psychic; they're planning to tack it onto your invoice. Five minutes of questions is what makes the number you hear the number you pay.
Loading a 26-foot box so nothing shifts on Highway 26
A properly loaded truck is built in tiers: heavy base pieces against the cab wall, weight balanced over the axles, soft goods filling voids, and straps at every tier. Loading is where most transit damage originates; items that 'arrived broken' usually broke during lane changes, not in stairwells. It's also where hustle pays twice: a tight load is both a safe load and a smaller truck count.
Crew-size math: when three movers cost less than two
Real numbers from our own jobs: a typical home that takes two movers 3–7 hours takes three movers 3–5. At $150.35 versus $206.75 per hour, the three-mover crew often finishes cheaper on anything past a small two-bedroom, and always finishes earlier. This is the calculation we run with you on the estimate call. It's also the calculation dishonest movers run in reverse, adding a fourth and fifth mover a job doesn't need.
Floor and structure protection, room to truck
Floor runners on wet days and delicate floors, door-jamb and banister protection on tight passages, and clean trucks for every customer, which is the real reason we decline moves from homes with active pest infestations. Protection isn't a premium package; it's the difference between movers and labor.
Valuation coverage, translated from the fine print
Every licensed Oregon mover's default coverage is released-value protection: $0.60 per pound per item. That's the legal floor, not a promise that nothing matters. Replacement-cost protection is available if you choose to purchase it, and if something is damaged on our watch, we will submit a claim upon request. Ask us about both on the call; a mover who explains coverage before the move is a mover planning not to need it.
Residential Moving Questions, Answered Straight
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With two movers, typical homes take 3–7 hours; with three movers, 3–5 hours. Apartment moves often finish within the 3-hour minimum. Home size, stairs, distance between addresses, and packing readiness affect the number, and the estimate call will narrow it down to your exact move.
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Lightweight clothing can usually stay in sturdy dressers; anything heavy, fragile, or spillable needs to come out. The crew makes the final call piece by piece on the walkthrough. An overloaded dresser is how drawers, backs, and movers get hurt.
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We'll move it safely in a dedicated TV box ($55.85 per use). We don't reinstall wall mounts at the new home; that's a handyman trade, and we'd rather tell you now than improvise with your drywall.
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Plants, yes. Aquariums travel drained and disassembled, we'll talk through it. Pianos: we have the equipment and the capability; tell us what you have on the call, and we'll quote it honestly. Hot tubs are outside our scope.
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Keep them with you. Passports, medications, chargers, kids' essentials, and anything irreplaceable ride in your car, not our truck. We'll remind you on the confirmation call, too.
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Not on local moves. Stairs and long carries are part of the job; we ask about them so the right crew shows up, not so we can bill you for the architecture.
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We move. Floor runners go down, furniture gets wrapped before it leaves the house, and the crew adjusts pace for safety. October-to-May moving is most of what we do; rain is a planning input, not an emergency.
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No surge pricing. Saturdays bill at the standard rate; Sundays and evenings after 7 PM bill at the published overtime rate. Month-end dates simply book out earlier; call ahead.
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Firearms are moved only when unloaded; we don't transport ammunition, propane, or hazardous materials. Perishables, we'll discuss case by case. When in doubt, ask. The honest 'no' on the phone beats the awkward one on move day.
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Tips are never expected and always appreciated, but the best tip is the one most customers already give us: a Google review that names the crew.
Ready to Move? Talk to Patrick and Amy Today
One call gets you a real estimate, a real crew, and a move that runs like butter, from a family company that's earned 4.8 stars doing exactly this across Greater Portland since 2020.
