Treat a piano like furniture and you end up with a hurt mover and a wrecked instrument. Even a modest upright nears 300 pounds; a full grand clears half a ton, and the mass sits exactly where a bad grip turns dangerous. For that reason it never lands with the regular movers. A dedicated specialty unit takes the job, leaning on skid boards, piano boards, heavy padding, and rated straps in place of brute force.
Grands come apart first. We pull the lyre and pedal assembly, take the legs off, tip the body gently onto its long edge on a padded board, then shroud it and ratchet it down. An upright rides a board as well, cushioned and walked through each doorway by people trained to keep that mass from breaking loose on a sill or in a cramped LoDo stairwell. The flooring stays covered and the finish stays guarded throughout. Reid’s same-day background shows here: we chart and measure the path from curb to room before the first lift.
And a piano booking around Denver seldom ends with the piano. The downtown lofts and the foothill homes near Golden and Evergreen that own a grand usually own a gun safe or some other dead-weight object too, and those go on the same visit. A loaded safe near 700 pounds, sitting in a foothill study at the top of a steep driveway, calls for the same board, dolly, and headcount a grand would. We mark off the doorways and corners with tape, lock in a route, and send exactly the hands the weight warrants, no more.
What the specialty team takes on
- Spinets, consoles, and uprights
- Baby grands and full concert grands, taken apart properly for the trip
- Gun safes and other dead-weight objects in lofts and foothill homes
- Instruments that have to come down a LoDo stairwell or up a steep foothill grade
Want the piano folded into a full household job? Our residential moving crew can empty the whole home in a day. Sending it across state lines? That goes on our own authority, covered on the long-distance moving page. Get a free quote and we reply inside one business hour.
What's Included
- A dedicated specialty unit for pianos, separate from the regular movers
- Skid boards, piano boards, and dollies rated far past the load
- Grands broken down for the trip: lyre, pedal assembly, and legs off and cushioned
- Heavy padding and rated straps holding the case dead still
- Gun safes and other dead-weight pieces handled in lofts and foothill homes
- Doorways and corners marked off with tape, a route locked, before any lift
- Cramped loft stairwells and steep foothill grades charted ahead of the date
- Cargo coverage up to $1M on every instrument and dead-weight job
What Does It Cost?
Local crews from $129/hr — or a flat written rate
2-mover crew, truck, blankets & dollies included.
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