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Piano and fragile removals in Davidson
Weight is a logistics problem. Value is a care problem. A piano is both at once, on a street with a slope in it, which is why it gets its own page.
Moving a piano down a Forest street
An upright piano is a few hundred kilograms that must never be tipped past its balance point, on castors that were never meant to leave a living room. Moving one here means answering the same questions the Driveway Scope asks, with less forgiveness in the answers:
- The route is chosen before the piano moves an inch. Down the drive or across the lawn; which door; which turns. If the internal stair is too tight, the piano goes around the outside, and we know that before the day.
- The right gear, not just strong backs. Piano trolley, straps and boards for the steps. On a steep drive the trolley is walked on the brake line, never ridden.
- Two on the piano minimum, three on a slope. One end always uphill. That's the rule, and it's why a lone-piano job still gets a proper crew.
- Placed once. Pianos don't get shuffled around a room. We put it where it will live, against the wall you chose, done.
The rest of the fragile list
The same discipline covers the other pieces people worry about the night before: artwork and mirrors (blanketed and boarded, carried vertically), the china cabinet (emptied, shelves out, glass padded), stone tabletops (on edge, never flat), the fish tank (drained, we'll talk you through the timing). If something in your house is keeping you up at night, name it in the enquiry and it gets a plan of its own.
What it costs
A piano or a small fragile list on its own usually runs as a 2 movers + 1 truck job at $250/hour; on a slope or with stairs we'll say plainly if it needs a third pair of hands, which makes it a $350/hour crew. Inside a full house move, the piano is simply planned into the day rather than priced as a mystery extra.