Pittsburgh is built across river valleys and steep hillsides, and the delivery address matters here in a way it simply does not in a flat city.
Goods clear at an east coast port, roughly fourteen to seventeen days from the UK on published schedules, then travel a few hundred miles west across Pennsylvania. Neither leg is the hard part of this move.
The hard part is the last two hundred yards, and it is worth more of your planning than the three thousand miles before it.
A number of homes here are reached by a public staircase from the street below, with no road access whatever. It is entirely normal locally and completely foreign to a crew that has not worked the city. If that is your house, it is the first thing to say and not the last.
Hillside streets are steep, often one way, and sometimes too tight for a full size vehicle to turn. Where that applies the goods transfer to something smaller, which is a real cost and a plannable one.
Older homes here have basements, back stairs and tight interior turns. A crew can work with any of it, but the day takes longer and the quote should say so rather than discovering it on the morning.
In winter
Ice on a gradient is a genuine reason to postpone rather than an excuse. Allow slack in a December or January date.
Clearance happens on the coast well before the drive west, and the rules are the same as for any household shipment: goods used by you, or in a household where you lived, for a year normally enter free of duty on a Form 3299 declaration.
Read the detail on duty free eligibility and goods owned under twelve months. Then spend your remaining planning time on the street, which is where a Pittsburgh move is actually decided.
The Atlantic crossing runs roughly fourteen to seventeen days on published schedules, then clearance and a few hundred miles west by road. Allow five to seven weeks door to door.
Because Pittsburgh terrain decides the vehicle. Gradient, width and whether there is road access at all matter more here than the size of the shipment.
It happens here more than anywhere else in this set. Tell us at the outset and the crew, the equipment and the price are planned around it.
Slowly, and with more people. It is a known situation rather than an unusual one, but it has to be priced rather than discovered.
It can. Ice on a steep street is a genuine reason to postpone, so allow slack in a winter date.
The shipping is the same, though academic dates create busy periods. Book earlier than feels necessary.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.