Services / Heavy and specialty
Heavy and specialty
Safes, pool tables, pianos, aquariums, and the pieces other crews decline on sight.
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What is included
- Survey before we accept the job, because some of these we will decline
- Specialty equipment: machine skates, stair climbers, gantry, spa dollies as required
- Crew sized for the weight, usually three or four
- Flat rate quoted in writing, nothing due up front
- Condition photographs before the first lift
- Placement, levelling, and reassembly where the piece allows it
What is not included
- Electrical, gas, plumbing, or refrigerant connection
- Structural work such as removing a window, door frame, or railing, unless agreed in writing first
- Crane or hoist work, which we will quote separately through a rigging partner
- Storage, unless arranged as a separate booking
How to prepare
- Measure every doorway, gate, turn, and stair on the route and send the numbers
- Photograph the approach from the street, not just the item
- Tell us the true weight if you know it, and the make and model if there is one
- Clear a straight path and confirm the floor can take the load at the destination
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how we protect it
Protection goes down before anything is lifted: runners on the floor, jamb protectors on every door on the route, guards on corners and railings. The item is blanket wrapped, then shrink wrapped over the blanket so the wrap never touches a finished surface, then strapped to a dolly or skate sized for it. Heavy freight moves on equipment rather than on arms: skates under the load, straps in tension, a spotter on every turn. If the route will not take it safely, we stop and call rather than force it.
Crews on this work have completed the Common Movers Certification, including the property protection and specialty handling modules. Read the curriculum.
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How much does heavy and specialty cost?
One flat rate, written down before anything moves. A coordinator reads what you send, sizes the crew and the equipment, and sends one number. Nothing is due up front: you pay after you have walked the rooms with us.
How many movers turn up?
Whatever the piece needs, and it is named in your quote before you book. Two for a single item with a clear path, four or more when it takes muscle. The rate does not change because the job turned out to be hard.
What if the access is difficult?
Send photos before the day. Side gates, spiral staircases, low clearances and third floor walk ups are most of what we do, and a coordinator will say honestly whether it can be done.
Can you come today?
Sometimes. We hold crews back for same day work. Call or text (877) 657-0555 rather than filling in the form, because a person can staff it faster than an inbox can.