If you are thinking of bringing a piano into your home, you must make all sorts of preparations to ensure that you are truly ready for it. Ultimately, this comes down to ensuring that you have enough space available, and you will not risk causing any damage to the instrument or your home either. So, here is some prep work that you can be getting on with to put yourself in the best possible position.
Decide where it will go
Before you think about arranging piano movers and compare quotes to move your piano, it is important that you decide where the piano is going. This is likely to be a consideration of space in the first instance, but you may also be thinking about it from an acoustic point of view. It may take a bit of furniture rearranging, which is why it is worth having a good idea of the dimensions to ensure that you are not trying to squeeze it into a space that is simply too small.
Declutter your home
While it may not be an essential step that you simply have to take on, the act of decluttering can prove to be enormously useful as it is going to mean that it is not packed with stuff that is going to get in the way. Moving such a big and delicate instrument is fraught with potential tripping hazards, and if they are stored away, given to someone else, or sold on, this is going to make the whole process that little bit more straightforward.
Protect your flooring
The main part of the home that is likely to get damaged is the flooring when you are dragging a piano across it. Therefore, you need to ensure that you have enough protection on it that is going to prevent it from getting scratched or dinged up. You should also plot a path of where the piano is going to move and look for any other potential damage points. For example, you need to think about the walls and doors. Measuring everything up is worthwhile as it will tell you whether you need to take on any additional steps, such as taking the doors off their hinges to make more space.
Get the piano in place
If you hire professional piano movers, it is certainly worth checking their credentials to ensure that they can be fully trusted to do the job without a problem. However, if you do not, it is worth having enough people on hand to complete the job in a slow and steady manner. Once you are happy, you can then set about the additional tasks of getting the piano into a clean and playable state.
All of this prep work can certainly help out in ensuring that your home is fully ready for a piano that can be enjoyed for a long time still to come – providing plenty of music and joy at the same time.
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