Piano Movers
Salt Lake City

Piano moving is a specialism because of equipment as much as technique, and the equipment is visible. You can tell within a minute of a crew arriving whether they do this regularly.

Just-In-Time Moving moves pianos across Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County.

What should be on the truck

A piano board, for a grand. A padded board the instrument is laid on its side and strapped to. There is no substitute and a grand does not move safely without one. If a company does not mention it when you say you have a grand, ask.

A proper piano dolly or skid, not a general furniture dolly. Different geometry, rated for the load, designed to keep the mass controlled rather than balanced.

Straps, plural, and the knowledge of where they go. Wrapping a piano is not decoration; the straps are what stop an upright following its own centre of gravity on a threshold.

Pads, and enough of them. A piano finish marks under a strap that is not padded.

Stair equipment where the job needs it. For a heavy instrument on a real staircase, this is what makes the difference between controlled and hopeful.

Crew size

Ask how many people are coming for your particular piano, and be sceptical of two for anything beyond a small upright on a flat route.

The reason is not lifting capacity. It is control. On a staircase somebody has to be above the instrument, somebody below, and somebody positioned for the tip that should not happen. Too few people is where pianos get away from crews.

What a good company asks you

Make and model. Length, for a grand. How many stairs, and whether they turn. The ceiling height above any turn. Where a truck can park and what is between it and the door. The destination room.

A company that asks those is planning your job. One that does not is planning a generic one.

What you should be told

That tuning will be affected. That the legs and lyre come off a grand. And honestly, if a route will not work.

One thing worth watching on the day, because it is the clearest single indicator: whether protection goes down before anything moves. Floor runners along the route, padding on doorframes at any tight corner, and pads on the instrument before it is strapped rather than after it is on the equipment. A crew that starts by protecting the route is doing the job in the right order. A crew that begins by moving the piano and intends to sort the rest out as they go has told you how the afternoon will run.

Call (435) 862-3080 or email office@movingjustintime.com.