Licensed and Insured Piano Movers
Kanab, Utah

What the job involves in Kanab

Kanab is a straightforward place to work once you know it, and we have been working it for over a decade. With roughly 5,081 residents, Kanab is a smaller community in Kane County, and that shows up in the job: largely detached properties, long driveways and very little kerbside constraint.

The estimate is written, the crew size is set from the survey, and the price does not move on the day unless the job does.

How we run a Kanab job

There is no mystery to it. The sequence is the same every time, which is what makes it predictable.

• A measure of every doorway, turn and stair on the route before the date
• The right board, skid and strapping for the instrument, not a furniture dolly
• Legs and pedals removed and wrapped separately where the instrument allows
• Three or four crew on the lift, depending on the instrument and the stairs
• Placement and levelling at the destination, plus a recommendation to tune after settling

The reason we survey first is that the three things that actually drive the price — volume, access and stairs — are the three things you cannot judge over the phone.

We would rather tell you a date is unrealistic than take the booking and disappoint you. That happens more often than you would think, particularly at month-end.

Moving around Kanab

Most of our Kanab work sits around Downtown Kanab and Kanab Creek, and each of those areas asks something slightly different of a crew — access, parking, the age of the housing, whether there is a lift involved.

We are usually in Orderville, Glendale and Big Water in the same week, so a piano movers job here rarely needs a separate trip charge — and if your move crosses between them, it is one crew rather than a handover.

Kanab runs on tourism, film production and animal welfare, and that shapes who is moving and when: the busy weeks follow the local employers, not the national moving season.

Everything here is covered from our own crews rather than subcontracted to whoever is free that day — Kane County included.

A move between Kanab and the northern half of the state falls in an awkward gap — too far for a local rate, too short for a van line. We price it as what it is: a long day with one crew.

What licensed and insured means for a piano movers job in Kanab

There are two different things called insurance in this trade. Released-value protection is included by law and pays by weight — around 60 cents a pound, which on a television is close to nothing. Full-value protection is a separate product that pays to repair or replace.

Ask which one a quote includes. Most quotes include the first and are described as though they include the second.

We are licensed and insured, our crews are background-checked, and we will put the cover in writing on the estimate rather than leaving it as a phrase on a website.

Booking, timing and cost in Kanab

From June to September we start early and finish before the worst of the afternoon. It is not comfort, it is damage control — for the crew and for anything with a finish on it.

Book earlier than feels necessary for month-end and for anything between May and September; those dates go first.

Five things make the difference between a quote and a guess:

• A rough inventory, even a phone video walked room to room — it is the single thing that makes an estimate accurate
• Your dates, including the one that cannot move and the one that can
• Anything unusually heavy or awkward: a safe, a piano, a tub, a treadmill, a fish tank
• Access notes at both ends — stairs, lifts, gates, parking, gate codes
• What is NOT coming with you, which is often the cheapest decision in the whole move

Call (435) 862-3080. We will ask what is moving, where from and where to, and give you a written number rather than a range.