Piano Movers in Houston

Uprights, baby grands, safes — flat $445 base

Your ZIPs land on Amanda’s desk at the Katy office — reviewed personally, no broker handoff, used only to price your Houston local move.

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Houston has a lot of pianos and a lot of stair-pitches. We’ve moved uprights down narrow Heights bungalow staircases, baby grands across River Oaks marble foyers, gun safes up Memorial two-story landings, and antique armoires through Sugar Land French doors that were never sized for them. 1st Choice Moving & Storage handles each one as a specialty job, not an upcharge tacked onto a generic move.

What we move under the piano flat

  • Upright pianos, including 1920s player models with intact action
  • Baby grands and full concert grands, lyre removed and crated
  • Gun safes from 400 to 2,000 lbs on stair-climbing dollies
  • Antique armoires and curio cabinets that won’t come apart
  • Marble dining tables and stone slabs with custom skid sleds
  • Sub-zero refrigerators, double-oven stoves, restaurant ranges

The walk-board protocol

Trent’s specialty crew walks every piano job before move day. They count the stairs, photograph the tight turns, measure door clearances, and decide whether the job needs a walk-board (for entry-stair drops), e-track strap rigging (for two-story landings), or a climbing dolly (for safes over 600 lbs). The figure Kyle signs is the final figure.

Pricing the heavy stuff

Piano flat starts at $445 for an upright on the same floor as the truck. Stair flights, baby-grand crate rentals, and tight-turn scout time line-item from there. Gun safes from $345 base, marble slabs from $295. Kyle counter-signs every figure before the truck arrives.

When the piano joins a regular move

If the piano is part of a full-home move, the flat figure is the move flat plus the piano line. We don’t double-charge crew hours; the piano crew folds into the residential crew once the heavy item is set. See residential moves, local Harris County jobs, and full-pack for combined runs.

Not included in the piano flat

Tuning after delivery (Houston piano techs run a separate appointment), exterior staging cranes for second-story window drops, and same-day Saturday emergency rigging are quoted separately. We don’t move pipe organs or anything bolted to a foundation.

What Sets Us Apart

Why Houston Households Stay With 1st Choice Moving & Storage

Licensing Closed Before Move Day

Fully licensed TX household-goods mover, DOT and MC authority filed for interstate work, $1M cargo coverage on every move — whether it’s a Memorial walk-up or a Katy-to-Vegas haul on I-15, every legal stack is closed before Trent’s crew rolls.

Old Floors, Plaster Walls, Estate Banisters

Original oak in a Heights Spanish, Italian travertine in a River Oaks foyer, painted plaster in a Bellaire bungalow — floor runners, jamb pads, banister shrink go on before a single box gets touched. Same protocol at both ends, pickup and drop.

24/7 Owner-Answered Dispatch

Call mid-afternoon and Kyle Bennett answers; call at 2am and Sarah Whittaker handles overnight dispatch from the Katy yard. Both Houston movers at your door are W-2, background-checked, and trained inside Pro Express Moving — never leased, never temp, never sourced same-day.

One Written Houston Price, No Curbside Surprises

The figure Bryan sends from the Sugar Land estimator desk is the same figure on your receipt — never an hourly clock that drags into sunset rush, never a fuel surcharge tacked on at the curb, never a heavy-item line the office never mentioned.

Four Lines, A Signed Flat Rate, And Kyle’s Countersign

Kyle pulls the calendar against the Greater Houston hitch-shifts and writes the binding figure on Long Point Rd letterhead, and the reply lands in your inbox — bilingual EN loads inside an hour, ES paperwork within two. No deposit, no chase calls if you walk.

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