The pieces too heavy, too fragile, or too valuable for a standard crew
Some things have no business on a regular dolly with a regular two-man crew, and the Delaware Valley is full of them — uprights and baby grands in Center City condos and old Society Hill homes, gun safes bolted into Bucks County basements, marble-topped antiques that have to come down a narrow trinity stair. For work like that Pro Tri State keeps a dedicated specialty crew, run by Dom Bianchi, with the boards, skids, straps and crating the job actually needs.
Across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, movers in Philly runs every move on one written number, with no add-ons after the truck loads.
The stairs and the access are the whole challenge
A piano move is rarely about the piano sitting in an open room — it’s about the turn at the bottom of the winder stair, the rowhouse doorway three inches too tight, the Manayunk hill block where the truck has to stage up the street. Dom’s crew walks the full path before anything moves, plans the angles, and protects both the instrument and your plaster and treads on the way through.
Specialty isn’t only pianos
Gun safes, pool tables, oversized glass and marble, big framed art, antique armoires, and home-gym equipment all get the same treatment — proper crating, the right equipment, and a crew that’s carried these pieces before. A 700-pound safe coming up out of a basement, or a slate pool table that has to be broken down and re-leveled at the other end, is not a job to improvise on a Saturday. We schedule the right people and the right gear, and on a high-rise piece we coordinate the freight elevator and the dock so the heavy item isn’t stuck waiting in a loading bay.
- Piano boards, skid plates, straps and padded ramps standard on every specialty job
- Specialty flat rate opens at $399; piano work priced by instrument type and access
- $155/hr for two or $215/hr for three when a piece travels with a full house move
- Up to $1,000,000 cargo coverage per shipment, $0.60/lb released-value standard, full-value urged on instruments
Tell us the piece and both addresses. A $125 deposit holds your date and credits to the final bill.
What’s included
- Dom Bianchi's specialty crew, kitted out with piano boards, skid plates, straps, and padded ramps for the heavy, awkward pieces
- Specialty work is flat-rated from $399, and each piano is quoted on its instrument type and the access at both ends
- When a specialty piece travels with a full household move, hourly crews come in at $155/hr for two or $215/hr for three
- Gun safes, pool tables, antiques, marble tops, and oversized art or glass get full pad-wrapping and crating
- Pieces that won't clear a trinity winder stair or a narrow rowhouse doorway in one piece are broken down and rebuilt
- Every shipment is covered up to $1,000,000; $0.60/lb released-value is the standard, and full-value is strongly advised on instruments
How we set the price
Following a short walkthrough or video estimate, we set one flat rate from the inventory you actually have — never an hourly clock. Whatever that sheet reads is the entire price, with nothing tacked on later.