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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BBB Accredited A+ Rating
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State Licensed TX HHG Mover
IAM Member Intl. Movers Assn.
NJWMA Warehousemen Assn.

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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