piano removal
milwaukee.
Milwaukee has a lot of pianos in a lot of upper flats, which is a combination that makes most movers hang up. The crew brings a stair dolly and three people for uprights coming down from the second floor of a Riverwest duplex, pulls the legs on grands in Whitefish Bay living rooms, and tries to find a new home for anything that still plays before it goes on the truck.
- Quote
- Flat, per piano, stairs priced in
- Crew
- Two or three movers
- Rehoming
- Tried first if it plays
- Floors
- Runners on hardwood, pads on doorframes
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What goes on the truck.
Loads with the crew
- Upright, spinet, console and studio pianos
- Baby grand and grand pianos, legs removed on site
- Church and home organs, electric and pipe-console styles
- Digital pianos and keyboards with stands
- Benches, covers and sheet music cabinets
Stays behind, and why
- Player piano mechanisms that need a specialist to disassemble, until you send a photo
- Instruments the owner wants appraised first (the crew can wait, just say so)
Before the crew arrives.
Measure the doorway and the narrowest turn, including the exterior stair on an upper flat.
Clear the piano top and empty the bench.
Say where it sits: ground floor, basement, or upper flat. Each sets the crew size.
Decide if you want it rehomed; playable uprights still find Milwaukee homes. Playable uprights still find homes in Milwaukee.
How it is priced.
Pianos in Milwaukee are quoted flat per instrument. An upright on the ground floor with a straight path out is the base. An upper flat, a basement, a grand that needs its legs pulled, or a long carry to the alley each add a known amount, and the whole number is yours before anyone lifts.
Get today's numberWhere it lands.
Playable pianos are offered to churches, schools and families around Milwaukee County first. Instruments that are finished are broken down, the cast iron harp and strings go to a scrap yard, hardwood is separated, and the felt and particleboard go to a licensed facility.
Mission log.
What Milwaukee asks before booking, answered by the crew that shows up.
(414) 206-1796Q 01Can you get an upright down from a Milwaukee upper flat?
Yes. Three movers and a stair dolly, and the exterior stair is checked for strength first. Send a photo of the staircase and the landing.
Q 02Do you move grand pianos on the North Shore?
Yes. Legs and lyre off, body wrapped and tipped onto a skid board, rolled out on edge. Three movers, one flat price.
Q 03What if nobody wants my old piano?
Donation partners get the first call. If there is no taker in your window, it is broken down responsibly: iron and strings recycled, wood separated.
Q 04Priced by weight?
No. Flat per piano with stairs and access called out ahead.
Q 05Will my hardwood floors survive?
Runners go down and the skid board has padded rails. Old maple floors in Bay View bungalows get extra care.
Q 06Piano plus the rest of the room?
Yes. Piano flat priced, the rest by the load, one trip.
Q 07How soon can you pick up a piano in West Allis or Greenfield?
Usually next day. Pianos need a specific crew size, so the dispatcher books them around the day's schedule rather than squeezing one into a same-day gap on the south side.
Q 08Do you pick up pianos in Waukesha County?
Yes. Brookfield, New Berlin and Waukesha pickups are grouped with other western stops, so you may be offered a day later in the week rather than tomorrow.
Point at it. The Milwaukee crew does the lifting.
Tell us what is going, where it sits and when. The crew calls back with a window and a ballpark, and the exact price gets agreed at the alley or the curb.
(414) 206-1796- Response
- Same business day
- Obligation
- None
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