A Specialist Team and Gear Built for Something That Forgives Nothing
Consider what you’re dealing with: several hundred pounds of cast-iron frame wearing a high-gloss lacquer shell that won’t flex and remembers every careless bump. Hand it to a general crew to muscle around a tight ranch-house corner and a permanent gouge is nearly a given. A loaded gun safe is the same beast, a quarter-ton of steel that’ll split a tile floor or trap a hand before you can blink. So both go to a crew that handles pianos and safes and little else. They roll the piece onto a wheeled skid and a sized board, cinch it with ratchet straps, and build up quilted padding. Only our people touch it, which means no stand-in ever rounds a sharp corner with all that mass swaying.
The Equipment and the Approach
- A sized board, a four-wheel dolly, ratchet straps, and built-up quilted padding for the piece
- With a grand, the pedal lyre and the legs come off for padding while the cabinet travels on its side
- A crew at ease with the close corners and stairwells of older Kerrville and two-story river houses
- Every wall, frame, railing and floor screened the length of the carry
- Cinched down so firmly the piece won’t budge across the whole haul
How the Morning Unfolds
First the crew reads the path, lays floor protection, and drapes the railings and walls before anything starts leaning. An upright stays vertical, strapped to the dolly. For a grand, the legs and the pedal mechanism come off for padding, the cabinet settles onto a cushioned board, and out it rolls on its side inside the frame. A loaded gun safe is emptied, then walked up onto steel plate so the floor takes no mark. A gravel approach or a slick walkway gets broomed and gritted, path and ramp both, before the first lift, since one slip under that kind of mass is precisely the wreck this whole method is built to avert. In a stairwell-only building, a slow step-by-step descent keeps the piece under full control all the way down.
Outside Our Scope
Getting it there unharmed is ours; lining up the tuning afterward is yours, best around two weeks out, once the piece has settled into the new room and the dry Hill Country air. Worn casters and mechanical fixes belong to a technician too. With a gun safe, re-bolting it to a slab or wall is a job for a safe tech, not our crew. If a leg is loose or a finish already shows a crack, flag it up front so we can route around it.
Pricing
Count on roughly $300 to $460 for a console or upright and $500 to $760 for a baby grand; each band rises once stairs or a lengthy haul to the door factor in, and a heavy gun safe is priced the same way after we measure its mass against its route. Wade pins down the exact number after sizing up the piece and its path side by side.
Get the specialist team on your piano or gun-safe move at (888) 711-4778.
