Art, antiques + piano moves in Vaucluse
What's carried here is often irreplaceable. A painting that's hung in one stairwell for decades, a table that came out on a ship, the piano the kids learned on. These pieces don't need a special company; they need the ordinary move to take them seriously, with method, in writing.
The method, piece by piece
Framed art and mirrors
Glassine against the face so nothing sticks or rubs, corner protectors, then felt blanket and board. Large or fragile works get a timber crate. Everything travels upright, strapped to the truck wall, loaded last and unloaded first so it never sits under the load. Never flat, never under anything.
Antique furniture
Blanket wrap over stretch film, so adhesive never touches shellac or French polish. Drawers emptied and tied, marble tops carried separately and vertically, legs padded where they meet anything at all. The rule is simple: old finishes get soft materials and slow hands.
Pianos
Uprights and grands both move on a piano trolley over track boards, with the lid locked and the whole instrument blanket-bound. Grands lose their legs and travel on a skid board, on edge, the way they were built to. On this headland the piano question is really an access question, the survey tells us whether it's a doorway job, a stair job or a talk-to-us-first job.
Cellars and the small precious things
Wine travels bottle-down in proper wine cartons and never sits in a hot truck longer than it must; jewellery, documents and the truly small valuables we'll cheerfully tell you to carry yourself, that's the honest answer.
One move, not two companies
Some firms sell specialty moving as a separate glamour service. Here it's a line in the same surveyed plan: the survey flags the piece, the method is agreed in writing, the right gear is on the truck. You don't pay a second call-out for the piano to be respected.
The piece is fixed. The path is the variable.
A piano can't be made lighter and a painting can't be made smaller, so all the planning lives in the path: which door, which stair, how many hands, where the truck stands. That's why the fragile work sits under the survey rather than beside it.
Tell us about the piece in your enquiry, dimensions if you have them, and it gets its own line in the findings before anyone lifts it.