You’ve found the upright piano movers Surrey trusts with studio, console and full uprights. Your piano travels blanketed, shrink wrapped and strapped to a piano board, through the tight halls, stairs and elevators that stop other crews.
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An upright looks compact next to a grand, but the scale tells a different story. A console runs 350 to 450 lb, a studio 400 to 500, and an old full upright with its cast iron plate can pass 800. Most of that weight sits high in the case, so the piano wants to tip the second it leaves the wall. Add a narrow Surrey hallway or a staircase with a landing and you can see why this is nobody’s do-it-yourself job.
Local Movers Ltd has moved Surrey’s pianos for over 6 years with our own trained crews. No subcontractors, no rented muscle from an app. The same movers who handle our IKEA, Cozey and Samsung deliveries are the ones strapping your piano to the board. Upright moves are one branch of our full piano moving service in Surrey, which covers grands and baby grands too.
We work seven days a week, out of basement suites, up tower elevators and into brand new builds across Fleetwood and beyond. And the pricing never changes shape. Time-based, billed on the actual hours worked, broken down for you up front before we touch a single key.
The pianos in most Surrey living rooms. A console stands roughly 40 to 43 inches tall, a studio 44 to 47, and both hide 350 to 500 lb inside a case that bruises easily. We blanket the cabinet, shrink wrap the pads in place, and strap the piano to a board before it rolls a single inch.
The old full uprights, some past 800 lb, are the ones that stop other crews cold. Plenty came into Surrey homes decades ago and haven’t moved since. We size the crew to the weight, protect the route first, and run a hump strap with the board on stairs so the load stays controlled the whole way.
A player upright carries the full case weight plus the mechanism, so it gets full-upright treatment. Digital consoles weigh less, but their finish marks fast and their pedals and power gear need care. Both travel blanketed and wrapped, with the electronics padded separately.
You pay for the hours the crew works, laid out in plain numbers before we book you in. Never a flat-rate guess.
Our movers train together and lift together. The crew on your piano has done this exact job many times before.
370+ Surrey customers, a 5.0 rating, and hundreds of moves behind it. The record speaks before we do.
IKEA, Cozey and Samsung trust us with their largest deliveries. Your piano rides with the same crew.
Tell us the piano type, the stairs at both ends and the two addresses. You get an honest hourly number.
Crew size, board, dolly and padding are decided before move day, not figured out on your doorstep.
Blanketed, wrapped, strapped to the board and walked out at a controlled pace. The clock only runs while we work.
The piano lands on the wall you picked, casters on cups if you use them. Check the hours, that’s the bill.
Straight from Google. Real five-star reviews from Surrey customers.
We had great service from the guys moving our household to two different storage units. They took very good care to make sure the correct items went to the right place. They were very respectful, friendly, efficient, and capable. We were very pleased how they wrapped and packed our items. I would definitely recommend using them.
Sach and Karan are amazing movers!!! No wall dents, nothing damaged, really really kind, professional, timely, and efficient. Will definitely request to use them again. Thank you so much!!!
Excellent experience with this moving company! The entire move was smooth, efficient, and stress-free. A special thanks to Abhimaan, the manager, for being so professional, organized, and responsive throughout the process. Huge thanks as well to Jass for his hard work and careful handling of all my belongings. The team was friendly, punctual, and treated everything with great care. I highly recommend this company to anyone looking for reliable and professional movers!
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Every caller asks the same thing first. What does it cost to move an upright piano in Surrey? Our answer never changes. Pricing is time-based, billed on the actual hours the crew works. A minimum charge covers the truck and crew to your door, then the clock runs in 30-minute increments. Nobody pays for a rounded-up hour that never happened.
The breakdown comes before the booking. Hourly rate, crew size, travel time, all in plain numbers before we load a single blanket. It’s the same up-front math we give IKEA and Cozey on their biggest deliveries, and it’s why the final bill matches the estimate. Four things move the number on a piano job.
A 400 lb console with 2 movers is the quick version of this job. An 800 lb full upright takes a third set of hands. Crew size is set at the quote, never on the day.
Ground floor to ground floor is the fastest piano move there is. A basement staircase with a turn can add 30 to 60 careful minutes. Count your steps and tell us about every landing.
In the towers around Surrey City Centre, a booked and padded service elevator keeps the clock short. An unbooked one means waiting, and waiting is time.
The distance from your door to the truck sits on the clock, and so does the drive between addresses. A long walk from visitor parking adds real minutes, so we plan where the truck stands first.
That’s the whole pricing story. Actual hours, a clear minimum, 30-minute increments, the numbers in your hands before we start. Call (778) 242-2877 with the piano type, the stairs at both ends and the two addresses. You’ll have an honest estimate in minutes.
Six years of Surrey uprights taught us where customers lose money and where they save it. Here are 10 things worth doing before the truck pulls up. Most cost you nothing but a few minutes.
Height, width, depth, then the narrowest doorway and stair landing on the route. The piano travels strapped to a board, so the case needs clearance through every turn. Two minutes with a tape measure can save the crew 30.
Decide exactly where the piano lands. An inside wall away from heat vents and direct sun holds tune longer, and a decided spot means one careful placement instead of three.
Surrey strata buildings usually reserve the padded elevator in 2-hour windows, and weekends go first. Ask your strata for the pads and the key. A locked-off elevator is the biggest time-saver in any tower move.
If the key cover locks, lock it and keep the key in your pocket. If it doesn’t, say so and we’ll wrap the lid closed so it can’t swing open halfway down a staircase.
Bench seats lift open and spill. Take the books, the metronome and anything sentimental in your own car. We blanket and move the bench with the same care as the piano.
One of the piano, one of the path out, one of where the truck can stand. Those photos size the crew right the first time, and the right crew size is the cheapest crew size.
Original piano casters are for inches, not hallways. They gouge hardwood and can snap under 500 lb of moving weight. The rolling belongs to our 4-wheel piano dolly.
Runners up, shoes moved, doors propped wide. If a doorway is within an inch, ask us about pulling the door off its hinges. Every 10 minutes of clearing you do is 10 minutes off the clock.
Every piano drifts after a move while it settles into the new room’s humidity. Booking the tuning for a couple of weeks out, not move day, means you pay for one tuning instead of two.
Morning crews have slack if a job runs long, and weekend slots fill first. Call 5 to 7 days ahead for a weekend piano move and ask for the first start of the day.
Clayton Heights is townhome country. Row after row of units between 188 and 192 Street, most built from the 2000s on, with the garage facing the rear lane instead of the street. The area was built denser than its neighbours, so street parking is tight and visitor stalls fill fast. It’s exactly the layout that makes people call a piano crew instead of asking three friends.
A typical job there looks like this. A console upright coming into a middle unit. The truck can’t sit long in the rear lane, so we stage from the closest legal spot, roll the piano to the door on the 4-wheel dolly, then switch to the piano board for the interior stairs. One mover below, one above, a hump strap carrying the weight, rails and corners padded before the piano ever enters the stairwell. On the main floor it comes off the board, back onto the dolly, and settles on the wall you chose.
A move like that is billed the same way as everything we do. Actual hours, crew sized to the piano, the breakdown up front. If you’re in one of the newer Clayton Heights townhomes, tell us which floor the piano lives on and where the visitors park. We’ll plan the stairs before the truck leaves the yard.
Yes. Single-item piano moves are a big part of our week. Bought a used upright in another part of Surrey, inherited one from a family member, or selling yours across town? We’ll move only the piano, billed on the actual hours the job takes.
Upright piano moves are time-based, billed on the actual hours worked. A minimum charge covers the truck and crew to your door, then the clock runs in 30-minute increments. We break the rate, crew size and travel time down up front, so the bill matches the estimate.
Two movers as the floor, three when stairs or an 800 lb full upright are involved. We set the crew size at the quote from the piano type, the stairs and your photos, not on your doorstep on move day.
Yes, and we plan it before we lift. The piano rides strapped to a piano board, one mover below and one above, with a hump strap carrying the weight. Landings, rails and corners get padded first so the case and your walls both come through clean.
All the time. Towers around Surrey City Centre and Whalley need the service elevator booked and padded through your strata, usually in a 2-hour window. Book it before you book us and the move stays short. We handle the rest.
Almost always, and that’s normal. The move itself rarely knocks a piano out of tune, the new room does. Give the piano 2 to 4 weeks to settle into the new humidity, then book your tuner.
Our own trained crew, never subcontractors. These are the same movers IKEA, Cozey and Samsung trust with their biggest deliveries. The people who quoted the job are the people at your door.
Yes. Surrey weather doesn’t get a vote. The piano is blanketed and shrink wrapped before it leaves the house, so the case and the soundboard stay dry from your door to the truck. We also lay runners so wet shoes never touch your floors.
Yes. Player uprights get treated like full uprights because the mechanism adds real weight. Digital consoles are lighter but the finish marks fast, so they get the same blanket and wrap treatment before they touch a dolly.
Our own crew, the right gear, billed on actual time. Get your free estimate today.
Local Movers Ltd · 8567 164 St, Surrey, BC V4N 3K4 · (778) 242-2877 · Open Mon-Sun
