St. Francis Wood Movers for Whole-House Moves

St. Francis Wood is on the western slope below Mount Davidson, in ZIP 94127. You enter through stone gates on St. Francis Boulevard near Portola Drive, and from there the streets curve uphill past lawns, hedges and houses set well back from the curb. It was planned in the early twentieth century as a residence park, and a homes association still looks after the common areas. West Portal and its shopping street are just north, and Balboa Terrace and Monterey Heights are close neighbors. It feels more like a Peninsula suburb than like the row-house blocks a mile away.

Here the truck usually gets close. Many homes have a driveway and a garage, traffic on the interior streets is light, and there is no wall-to-wall row of buildings to squeeze between. The trade-off is volume. These are full houses, often two or three floors with a basement, a garage that has been filling up for years and furniture bought for big rooms. Most of the hours on a St. Francis Wood move are spent inside the house, not on the street.

Portola Drive is a busy arterial with Muni buses, so homes that front it usually load from the residential side street instead. If the curb outside your house is lined with cars, an SFMTA temporary no-parking reservation keeps it clear; our parking permit guide explains how.

• Day 14: on-site estimate. We walk every floor, the garage and the basement; we do not quote whole houses by video.
• Day 12: start on the garage and storage rooms, which is where large-house moves most often run long.
• Day 10: decide what goes to family, donation or storage, so the truck is loaded for one destination.
• Day 7: if the curb is usually full, apply for a curb reservation.
• Day 2: confirm piano and heavy furniture details with us.
• Night before: move cars out of the driveway and clear a path through the garage.
• Move day: the crew calls about 30 minutes out and arrives between 9 and 11 AM.

For a three-bedroom house over 1,800 square feet, or four bedrooms and up, we send four movers at $235 per hour, which covers most homes in the neighborhood. Smaller houses can go with three movers at $175, and a two-mover crew at $145 is meant for very small loads. Weekend dates cost the same as weekdays. We bill a 3-hour minimum, then by the quarter hour. Full service already includes blankets, tape, floor protection, wardrobe boxes you return later and furniture disassembly and reassembly; packing materials are charged as used. If you also need to drop items at a storage unit or a relative's home in the city, the extra stop costs only the time.

From a studio to four bedrooms: St. Francis Wood move costs

The table starts from the billed time on moves we completed from mid-July to mid-October 2026, keeping the middle half of each size group. No two St. Francis Wood homes pack the same way, and local moves are billed by the hour, never as a flat price.

Middle 50% of billed hours on recent local moves for direct customers (July to October 2026), with the drive between homes counted as billed. Account and partner-billed jobs and moves that included our full packing are not in these numbers. Packing supplies extra; 3-hour minimum.

These are full houses, often two or three floors with a basement and a well-stocked garage, so even with easy driveway access they usually land in the upper rows.

94127 sent us a single request this season, so we use San Francisco figures. Between mid-July and late October 2026 the city produced 43 quote requests, not counting account work, and 28 booked or completed.

At about 42 miles from downtown San Jose, St. Francis Wood sits in the southwest of the city, near the north end of I-280. There is no travel charge to reach you. If the new home is more than 10 minutes away, California regulation doubles the drive time between the two addresses, which matters for moves down to the Peninsula or South Bay.

• Sunset District: row houses over garages on the avenue grid to the west.
• Glen Park: hillside homes and a village center on the other side of the ridge.
• Noe Valley: Victorians and flats on steep streets east of Twin Peaks.
• Castro: dense Victorians and flats near Market Street.
• San Francisco: our citywide page.

Also see packing and storage.