Bears Moving Co. is a licensed Georgia piano moving company (GA HHG #9320) moving standard upright and spinet pianos throughout Covington — Downtown Covington homes, Almon homes, and Highway 278 corridor homes. That includes consoles, studio uprights, player pianos, and digital pianos. We do not move baby grand or grand pianos. Four-wheel piano dollies, double-blanket wrapping, full floor protection, and cargo and liability insurance on every instrument.
Piano moving in Covington is mostly a historic-home problem — Downtown Covington homes, Almon homes, and Highway 278 corridor homes. These houses were built before anyone owned a 600-pound console: the front steps are tall, the doorways are narrow, and the floors underneath are original.
The hard part of a Covington piano move is usually the house itself: a steep front stair, a doorway an inch narrower than expected, and heart-pine floors underneath. We protect the whole path through Downtown Covington and Almon first.
We protect the route first, then the instrument, then move it — in that order, because the damage that costs the most on an old-home piano move is usually to the house, not the piano.
Covington has a high share of antique uprights and player pianos, which are heavier and more fragile than their size suggests. The list runs from spinets and consoles through studio, full-size, and antique uprights to player pianos, digital pianos, and stage keyboards. Whatever it is, it stays upright on a four-wheel piano dolly, double-wrapped and strapped, with corner protection through every incline.
We move standard upright and spinet pianos — including consoles, studio uprights, player pianos, and digital pianos. We do not move baby grand or grand pianos. If you have a baby grand or grand, we will tell you that straight away and point you toward a specialty grand mover rather than take a job we are not equipped for.
A Covington piano job is scoped before it's scheduled — instrument type and age, doorway widths, stair-rise at both addresses, and parking. That's how the right crew size and equipment arrive the first time instead of being figured out on the porch.
The flat rate on a Covington move reflects the stair run and the amount of floor protection an older house needs — both settled before you get a number. A Covington piano move is priced as a single flat number, never by the hour.
No hourly minimum, no clock, no adjustment at the end — you approve the price before move day and it holds even if the job runs long. Three factors build that number.
Start with the piano. Weight and height do most of the work here: a console is straightforward, a full-size upright needs a larger crew, and a player or antique upright — often 900-plus pounds with fragile veneer — needs the largest. Digital instruments are the least expensive to move. Age matters too, because old casework tolerates less.
Factor two is stairs and access at both ends of the Covington move. We price the number of stair flights and the rise of each one, turns and landings the instrument has to pivot through, doorway and hallway widths, thresholds and porch steps, elevator size and reservation windows, and how far the piano has to travel from the door to the truck.
A ground-floor, level-entry pickup with a driveway at the door is our lowest-access price; a walk-up with a tight turn at the top is our highest.
Third is distance. A piano crossing Covington costs less to move than one crossing the metro, and inside our standard service zone that mileage is the only distance charge — there's no separate travel surcharge layered on.
Truck, fuel, blankets, shrink wrap, skid board, four-wheel piano dollies, floor runners, door-jamb protection, and full insurance are all inside the flat rate. There is no per-stair fee, no per-flight fee, no long-carry fee, and no elevator fee. If you are also booking a household move, the piano rides with the same crew on the same day as its own flat piano fee on top of the household move.
Insurance is not an add-on: every Covington instrument moves under our cargo and liability coverage (GA HHG #9320). Buildings and HOAs get a Certificate of Insurance within a day, and for vintage or high-value uprights we walk through Full Value Protection before anything is signed.
A piano that changes buildings goes out of tune — that's physics, not handling. Let it sit two to four weeks in the new Covington room before the tuner comes. We leave it positioned, leveled, and rolling correctly so it's usable in the meantime.
We move pianos throughout Downtown Covington, Almon, and Highway 278 corridor and the rest of Newton County, with no travel surcharge inside our standard service zone.
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The flat rate on a Covington move reflects the stair run and the amount of floor protection an older house needs — both settled before you get a number. Every Covington piano move is quoted as a flat rate rather than by the hour, based on the piano type and size, the stairs and access at both ends, and the mileage between addresses.
Truck, fuel, equipment, floor protection, and insurance are included in that price, and there are no per-stair or long-carry fees.
Stairs are routine on Covington upright and spinet moves. The hard part of a Covington piano move is usually the house itself: a steep front stair, a doorway an inch narrower than expected, and heart-pine floors underneath. We protect the whole path through Downtown Covington and Almon first.
We match the crew to the weight and the number of flights, and heavy antique uprights or long stair runs get extra hands plus stair-climbing gear.
No — our piano service covers uprights and spinets: consoles, studio and full-size uprights, antique and player pianos, and digital pianos. Grands of any size need leg-and-lyre disassembly and skid-board work we are not equipped for, so Covington grand moves go to a specialty crew instead.
Yes. Every Covington piano move is covered by our full cargo and liability insurance under GA HHG #9320, and we can issue a Certificate of Insurance naming your building or HOA within 24 hours. Full Value Protection is available for high-value instruments.
You don't need a full move. Plenty of Covington bookings are one instrument and nothing else, whether it's crossing the metro or crossing a hallway. When a piano rides along with a household move, the same crew handles it on the same day for its own flat piano fee.