Pianos, Pool Tables, Gun Safes, and the Awkward Heavy Pieces
A handful of pieces aren’t a two-guys-and-a-dolly job. An upright on a Lakewood walkout staircase, a 700-pound gun safe heading down to a Hartman Heights basement, a slate pool table that has to come apart in three slabs, a cast-iron wood stove that nobody can lift solo. Get the balance wrong and the piece, the hardwood, the staircase, or somebody’s back is the one that takes the hit. Specialty work like this is steady around Lee’s Summit, because the brick ranches and Lake Lotawana cottages around the area tend to host a piano in the front room and a safe in the basement. Summit handles them with the gear and the hand count the piece needs, not as something the crew is figuring out on your stair treads.
Pianos ride on piano boards and skid boards, in climate-controlled truck space, on proper straps, with stair ramps and e-track tie-downs on the floor when a staircase has to be cleared. Uprights and consoles travel standing up on the board; baby grands come off the legs and ride on their side, never muscled down a flight intact. Specialty pricing opens at $395 and is scoped to the piece, the staircase, and the carry to the curb.
Safes, pool tables, and the rest of the awkward stuff
A gun safe packs serious weight into a small footprint and usually has to go up or down a flight to a basement workshop. The crew runs heavy-duty stair-climbing dollies and enough hands to keep the safe controlled the whole way, with walk-boards bridging the threshold and ram-board down the entire stair tread path. Pool tables come apart with the slate sectioned and the frame broken down; old wood stoves get crated and strapped. Statuary, restaurant ranges, oversized gym equipment, the basement Olympic bench: anything that wants more than a standard crew gets the right rig and the right manpower.
- Piano boards, skid boards, walk-boards, and e-track tie-downs sized to the piece
- Truck space that stays climate-controlled so the piano isn’t riding through 100-degree humidity
- Stair ramps and a mapped carry path for any flight that has to be cleared
- Stair-climbing dollies rated for gun safes and other heavy odd-shaped pieces
- Hardwood, baseboards, and doorframes shielded along the whole carry path
- Booked stand-alone or attached to a full move, specialty work from $395
To book a piano, safe, or pool-table move with the right gear and the right hand count, call Summit at (888) 711-4778. The piece gets scoped on the phone; the day gets quoted in writing.
What's Covered
- Piano boards, skid boards, walk-boards, and e-track tie-downs sized to the piece
- Truck space that stays climate-controlled so the piano isn't riding through 100-degree humidity
- Stair ramps and a mapped carry path for any flight that has to be cleared
- Stair-climbing dollies rated for gun safes and other heavy odd-shaped pieces
- Hardwood, baseboards, and doorframes shielded along the whole carry path
- Booked stand-alone or attached to a full move, specialty work from $395
What's the Cost?
Two movers and our truck run $135 an hour, or a binding flat from $420
Built into that hourly: the truck, two uniformed Summit movers, blankets, dollies, shrink wrap, walk-boards — everything off the rig, with no fuel surcharge or stair fee tacked on at the end.
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