On 31/08/2019 08:43, Steve Walker wrote:
On 31/08/2019 06:59, ARW wrote:
Any tips? This is from one town to another town about a 150 miles away.

How to get it on the van, secure it down etc.

And how do you get it through a front door?

Thanks


Is it wooden or cast-iron framed? If the latter you need as many people
as you can get around it!

Getting the piano from my grandparents' house to my parents involved
four of us and would have been easier if we could have fitted six around
it.

Movements to get it out of the front room and to the front door involved
standing it one one end to rotate it out of the front room door, but
that had to be the wrong end for a later move, so it then had to be
moved into the back room and switched onto its other end to be able to
manoeuvre it back into the hall and out of the front door.

Once at the van, it was a case of lifting one end just in, then lifting
the other end and pushing it the rest of the way.

Securing it was not a problem - the van had shelves running along both
sides and we had to remove the front lip from one to get the piano
between them. All it needed was strapping to stop it moving backwards or
forwards, as there was nowhere else for it to go really. You do want it
wellheld though, there'd be a lot of momentum if you had to emergency
brake or, even worse, were in a crash. In our case, we were only moving
it about 5 miles and all on slow roads, so a little less of a risk.

At the other end of the journey, it was decided that rather than
manouvering it (on end) through the porch door and front door and then
needing to be on the other end to turn through the living room door, it
was easier to get it all the way to the back and come in through the
patio door.

You can pretty well guarantee that it has very small metal castors, that
tend to be siezed and anyway are so small that they sink into any carpet
and will not roll or will dig grooves in laminate, so you need an old
blanket or similar to slide it on, even when upright.

This all plays havoc with the tuning, so once in place, that'll need
doing - we actually had the sterotypical blind piano tuner in!

All in all, its damned hard work and they are *HEAVY*!


So basically it's going to be a ******* of a job then?

I like a challenge.

--
Adam