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Residential

Pianos, safes, pool tables and fine art

Some items are not heavy furniture, they are their own job. They change the crew size, the equipment and the plan, so we schedule them as their own line rather than hoping the day absorbs them.

A large oversized item fully wrapped in moving blankets and shrink, banded and standing on a driveway

What counts as a specialty item

If it needs more than four hands, a board or a crate, tell us on the quote form. Discovering it on the day is what turns a good move into a bad one.

Pianos

Uprights on a piano board and skid, grands legged down and boxed. Tuning is a separate trade and we will say so.

Gun safes

Weight, stair count and floor type decide the plan. Anything over about 600 pounds gets its own equipment and crew.

Pool and billiard tables

Disassembled, slate separated and padded, then reassembled and levelled at the other end.

Fine art and antiques

Mirror cartons for framed work, custom crates for anything valuable, glass faced pieces taped and corner protected.

Stone and glass tops

Marble, granite and glass travel vertically in a built crate. Laid flat they crack on the first bad road.

Appliances and equipment

Treadmills, kilns, tool chests and anything else in a garage that is heavier than it looks.

How a specialty item is handled

Tell us early

On the quote form, with a photo if you can. Weight and access decide everything that follows.

Plan the route

We measure doorways, turns and stairs before the day, so the crew is not solving it on the landing.

Crate or board it

The right equipment for the item: a piano board, a stair climber, a built crate or a mirror carton.

Place it once

Heavy items get set down where they are staying. We agree the spot before it comes off the truck.

Specialty item questions

Yes. A grand is legged down, wrapped and moved on a skid board rather than rolled on its own castors. Tell us the make and the room it is in, because a third floor walkup and a ground floor living room are very different jobs.

No, that is a separate trade and we will not pretend otherwise. Any piano should be tuned a few weeks after a move once it has settled to the new humidity, and we can point you at a local tuner.

Most residential gun safes are between 400 and 1,200 pounds and we handle them routinely. Above that, or up a staircase, we survey first. Give us the model number and we will find the real weight rather than guessing.

Yes. It comes apart, the slate travels separately and padded, and it is reassembled and levelled at the other end. A slate table that is moved in one piece is a table that gets destroyed.