Dave Osborne wrote:

Tim Watts wrote:

Re the castor cups - do you think they'd work on slate? I can see them
(assuming they are plastic) getting ground away in pretty short order.


Run of the mill castor cups are thermosetting plastic with a disc of
nylon or (in the deluxe version Teflon) bonded to the base. They will
last forever.

I recommend you find a location for the piano and aim not to move it!
Use castor cups for everyday floor protection.

If you need to move the piano occasionally to decorate behind, buy or
improvise a temporary dolly.

If you are set on using the rubber wheels shown, then screw them in
place of the existing castors.

I'm very much against having stuff I can't move without a huge effort
(especially now as I need to move stuff around for fixing the house and if
nothing else, it always gets filthy down the back).

I'll try with various sheets of material as a sliding sheet (aiming that the
sheet remains still on the floor and the piano slides on the sheet) and if
that doesn't work, I'll go talk to the piano shop in T Wells and ask about
castors.

Thinking about the height variation with large castors, that can always be
solved by a footrest in front of the pedals.

The emphasis here is pianos are very nice, unless they hamper everything I
try and do around them. Compromises are fine because if this thing gets in
my way too often, it's out the door! It's already in my bad books for
scratching the dining room floor (despite being delivered on a dolly). I'm
pretty sure the scratches will disappear with another coat of floor sealer,
but I don't want to be doing that too often.

I'll check out some felt glides too, possibly something in metal with wide
area.

Cheers

Tim

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Tim Watts