When a piece is too heavy, too delicate, or too valuable for an ordinary crew
Some things have no business on a regular dolly with a regular two-man crew, and the Valley is full of them — uprights and baby grands in Summerlin estate homes and Strip high-rise condos, gun safes bolted into garage walls, marble-top antiques that have to come off a two-story tile landing, slate pool tables in a Henderson game room. For these jobs PT Van Lines runs a dedicated specialty crew under Derek Vance, equipped with the boards, skids, straps and crating the work genuinely calls for.
From Summerlin to Henderson, movers in the Valley prices the whole move as one written number you can hold us to.
The access and the heat are the whole challenge
A piano move is rarely about the instrument sitting in an open room — it is about the turn at the top of a stucco staircase, the high-rise freight elevator and its booked window, and the desert afternoon that can knock a piano out of tune if it bakes in a stationary trailer. Derek’s crew walks the full path before anything moves, plans the angles, schedules the carry for the cooler part of the day in summer, and protects both the piece and your floors and walls on the way through.
Specialty is not 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 has carried these pieces before. A 700-pound safe coming out of a garage, 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. On a Strip high-rise piece we coordinate the freight elevator and the dock so the heavy item is not stuck waiting in a loading bay.
- Every specialty job rolls out with piano boards, skid plates, strapping and padded ramps as standard kit
- Standalone specialty starts at a $409 flat rate; each piano is priced on its type and the access
- Riding with a full house move, it goes hourly — $159 for two movers, $219 for three
- Coverage to $1,000,000 per shipment at the $0.60/lb standard, full-value urged on instruments
Describe the piece and give us both addresses. $100 down books the date, and we credit every dollar of it to your final number.
What’s included
- Derek Vance's specialty crew, kitted out with piano boards, skid plates, straps and padded ramps for the heavy, awkward pieces a standard two-man carry cannot touch
- Standalone specialty work is flat-rated from $409, each piano quoted on its type and the access at both ends — a spinet on one level is a different animal from a baby grand off a Summerlin two-story landing
- When the specialty piece rides along with a full household move, the crew goes on the hourly clock instead: $159 an hour for two movers, $219 for three
- Gun safes, pool tables, marble-top antiques, oversized glass and framed art, and home-gym rigs all get full pad-wrapping and crating
- Heavy pieces planned around the heat — dawn scheduling and protected transit so a piano's finish and tuning survive a 110°F desert afternoon
- Each shipment is covered to a $1,000,000 ceiling at the $0.60-per-pound standard release, and on instruments we strongly steer you to full-value protection
How we set the price
After a quick walkthrough or video estimate, we build a single flat rate off the inventory you actually own — no hourly clock anywhere in it. What that sheet reads is the full price, with nothing tacked on later.