The pieces that need more than a dolly and a prayer
A console piano, a 1,200-pound gun safe, a slate pool table, a marble-top antique handed down three generations — none of it belongs on an hourly clock. Reggie Turner runs these jobs, because guiding an upright down a South Main loft stairwell is nothing like rolling one across a ground-floor ramp.
How the hard carries actually go
On a baby grand the legs and lyre come off first; then the case gets blanketed, belted to a skid, and eased down the flight one step at a time with a mover braced below and a pause at each landing. A heavy safe walks down over plywood sheets laid across the floor. When the calendar allows, a big piece gets its own day.
What the heavy, specialty pieces run
| Piece | Crew | Flat price |
|---|---|---|
| Ground-floor or ramped upright piano | 3 movers | $210 – $360 |
| Upright taken up a stair flight | 3 movers | $340 – $540 |
| Gun safe around the 1,400-lb mark | 3 movers | $260 – $480 |
| Slate pool table, dismantled then re-leveled | 3 movers | $300 – $560 |
| Baby grand with legs and lyre removed and wrapped | 3–4 movers | $380 – $640 |
Each piece is quoted flat, never by the hour — we weigh the item, the floor it sits on, the ramp or stairwell, and how the curb loads. Should a three-mover team run long at $174/hr, you owe only the figure you signed. Coverage tops out at $1,000,000, released value holds at $0.60 a pound, and claims stay open nine months. Rolling it into a residential or long-distance move? We fold it right in.
What the flat price includes on a Memphis, TN move
- Uprights and consoles are blanketed, belted to a padded skid, and wheeled out on a four-wheel piano dolly
- On grands, the legs, lyre and pedal assembly come off and the case is padded down until it clears the doorway
- Stair flights and porch steps are handled with skid boards, ramps and stair-climbing dollies
- Gun safes running up toward 1,400 pounds move on a rated safe dolly over plywood sheets we lay across the floor
- Ask and slate pool tables are dismantled, then reassembled and re-leveled with the felt inspected
- Add full-value protection and each specialty piece is covered to $1,000,000 per shipment
So — what will it come to?
Put two movers and the truck on the clock at $124/hr, or drop the meter and settle the whole job on one signed Shelby County flat rate laid out on a single page
Folded into that rate from the start are the moving blankets, the hand trucks, the rolls of shrink film and the patient, careful lifts an East Memphis condo or a Midtown walk-up asks for — plus any COI a Downtown high-rise or a suburban HOA wants filed ahead of load-day. Add a third mover and the hourly runs $174.
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