Bears Moving Co. is a licensed Georgia piano moving company (GA HHG #9320) moving standard upright and spinet pianos throughout Johns Creek — St. Ives homes, Medlock Bridge residences, Ocee-area properties, and River Club estates. 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.
Johns Creek piano moves are mostly large-property work — St. Ives homes, Medlock Bridge residences, Ocee-area properties, and River Club estates. The instruments here are full-size and antique uprights, and the difficulty is rarely the doorway: it's the distance from the truck to the room, the driveway pitch, and the floors in between.
Johns Creek's gated estate neighborhoods need gate access arranged in advance, and the long driveways mean we position the truck for the shortest possible carry rather than the closest parking spot. We scope every Johns Creek upright move before booking so the right crew, ramp, and truck show up the first time.
Full-size uprights, player pianos, and consoles are the norm in the St. Ives and River Club homes. 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 Johns Creek 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.
Johns Creek flat rates are driven by the carry: long gated driveways and deep front walks price above a short driveway-to-door route. A Johns Creek 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 Johns Creek 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 Johns Creek 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 Johns Creek 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 Johns Creek room before the tuner comes. We leave it positioned, leveled, and rolling correctly so it's usable in the meantime.
We move pianos throughout Country Club of the South, St. Ives, Seven Oaks, Doublegate, and Medlock Bridge and the rest of Fulton County, with no travel surcharge inside our standard service zone.
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Johns Creek flat rates are driven by the carry: long gated driveways and deep front walks price above a short driveway-to-door route. Every Johns Creek 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 Johns Creek upright and spinet moves. Johns Creek's gated estate neighborhoods need gate access arranged in advance, and the long driveways mean we position the truck for the shortest possible carry rather than the closest parking spot. 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 Johns Creek grand moves go to a specialty crew instead.
Yes. Every Johns Creek 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 Johns Creek 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.