Piano Movers
St. George

Churches, schools, care homes and community venues around St. George own a lot of pianos, and those instruments get repositioned far more often than a home piano ever does: for an event, a rehearsal, a room being repainted, or a stage being set.

They are also, frequently, moved by whoever happens to be there. That is where instruments and people get hurt.

Just-In-Time Moving works throughout St. George and Washington County.

The recurring risk

An institutional piano is usually an upright, often an older and heavier one, and it lives in a building with hard floors, thresholds, ramps and sometimes a stage.

The temptation is to roll it on its own casters, because it has casters and the distance is short. Those casters are for appearance rather than travel. On hard floors they mark the surface along the whole path, they catch on thresholds, and they snap, which drops a corner of an instrument that weighs several hundred pounds.

An upright is also top-heavy, so it tips backwards quickly and with little warning. On a ramp or a stage edge that is a serious situation.

What a proper move involves

The instrument goes onto a piano dolly, secured, and is moved on that rather than pushed. Floors and doorframes get protected. A crew works the turns rather than forcing them.

For a grand, the lid is secured, the lyre removed, the piano lowered onto its bass side on a padded board and strapped, and the legs come off only once the weight is on the board.

Stages, risers and ramps

Worth flagging when booking, because they are the part that catches people out.

Stage edges have no forgiveness. Portable ramps have weight limits that a piano and a crew together can exceed. Risers are frequently not designed for a concentrated load of this kind.

Tell us what is involved and we will plan it rather than improvising on the day.

If it is being moved regularly

Ask about a proper piano truck or caster cups suited to the floor, which makes routine repositioning safer for staff between professional moves.

And be clear internally about who is permitted to move it. A written rule saves an injury.

Scheduling around the building

We work evenings and weekends, which usually suits a venue better than a weekday. Tell us the service times, the rehearsal schedule or the school day and we will fit around them.

Tell us the instrument type and make, the route, and any stage or ramp. Estimates are free and in writing, and we handle recurring work for organisations.

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