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Piano, antique and art moves in Hunters Hill

A suburb of long-held houses is a suburb of long-kept things: pianos that arrived by dray, cedar that outlived its maker, canvases, clocks, china. Moving them is slower than moving cartons, and it should be.

Two removalists easing an upright piano on a trolley along a period hallway with floor runners down
An upright takes two who know what they are doing, and a hallway that has been measured.

Pianos, honestly

An upright piano is not mysterious, it is just heavy in an awkward, expensive way. The honest logistics: the doorway and hallway get measured first, the piano rides a proper piano trolley over boards, the carry path is runnered, and the two movers on it have done it before. Stairs change the plan, never the care.

Grands, pianolas and the organ at the back of the hall are a longer conversation, and we have it before the day, not at the foot of the steps. Tell us the instrument and the rooms at both ends, and we plan it in.

The full walk-through: a piano out of a period hallway.

A removalist's hands wrapping an antique carriage clock in soft packing paper beside folded felt blankets
Paper first, felt second, and a carton that fits. Slow is the technique.

Antiques and the things that cannot be replaced

Antique furniture moves in felt and patience: drawers emptied and tied or moved separately, marble tops carried on edge, glazed doors padded and strapped shut, nothing dragged, nothing balanced. Small precious things, the clocks, the china, the medals in the sideboard, get wrapped one at a time and travel in cartons that cannot shift.

We will also tell you honestly when a piece wants a specialist conservator or a custom crate rather than a removalist. It is rare, but the honest answer beats a brave one.

A period hallway dressed for moving day with runners and padded door frames
The house gets wrapped as carefully as the piece passing through it.

Art, mirrors and glass

Framed work travels on edge, padded, in the truck's tallest safest slot, never flat under anything. Large canvases and mirrors get corner protection and a wrap that touches the frame, not the face. If a piece is valuable enough that you would want it named on an insurance schedule, name it to us too, and we will crew and pack for exactly that piece.

Tell us about the piece

Before move day

The plan comes first. Then the truck.

Tell us the street, the rooms and roughly when. We come back with the approach: which bridge, where the truck stands, how the house is protected, and the crew it points to.

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