A piano is not just heavy, it is heavy in a way that punishes the wrong technique. We move uprights and grands all over the metro, and the gear we strap on depends entirely on which one is sitting in your living room.
Different rig for uprights and grands
An upright stays assembled. We belt it onto a four-wheel piano dolly, run wide straps under the keybed, and use a stair-climbing skid board for any steps, with the heaviest end always uphill on a Capitol Hill stoop. A grand is the bigger production: we lower the lid, remove and pad the legs and lyre, stand the body on its straight side, and secure it to a padded grand board, then it rolls on the skid and gets blanketed corner to corner before it ever sees the truck. Both get strapped flat against the truck wall so nothing shifts on the I-25 ride or the curves of a mountain route. We also note the weather: hauling a lacquered instrument out into spring hail without a cover is how a finish gets ruined, so we wrap and time the load around the storm window.
The crew size matches the instrument and the building. A baby grand coming down a Wash Park staircase gets more hands than an upright rolling out a ground-floor garage, and we tell you which before you book so there are no surprises on the day. Piano and specialty moves start at $375 depending on the instrument, the stairs, and the distance. The $150 deposit holds your slot and applies to the total. We carry up to $1,000,000 cargo coverage, so the instrument is protected, not just the truck. Just Right Moving treats a piano like the irreplaceable thing it is.

What's Covered
- A four-wheel piano truck and broad belly straps matched to an upright's weight
- Legs and lyre taken off a grand, each padded and bagged on its own
- A stair-climbing skid for stoops, walk-up flights, and split-level steps
- Thick quilted pads wrapped right around every corner before the lift
- The instrument lashed flat to the truck wall so it can't shift on the highway
- Your instrument backed by as much as $1,000,000 in coverage while it's on our rig
What's the Cost?
From $149/hr or a flat rate from $410
A two-mover crew, the truck, blankets, and dollies are all folded into that price already, with nothing billed back to you as an extra later.
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