Licensed Texas (TxDMV) mover Est. 2012 Dayton & Greater Houston 4.9★ / 32 reviews
Moving service · Dayton & Greater Houston

Piano & Specialty Moving

Spend a minute on the form — and we email back a binding flat rate, laid out top to bottom, before the business day closes

Your written number is back before the business day wraps. Free estimate, no strings. Anything you send stays with our Dayton office — we never sell it off or kick it to a broker.

Where Greater Houston checks out a mover first

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01 Overview

Pianos, Safes and the Heavy, Fragile Stuff

Some things can’t ride in the back with the boxes. Space City Movers runs a dedicated specialty crew led by Reggie Dunn for the items that take real rigging — uprights, baby grands and full grands, slate pool tables, heavy gun safes, large aquariums, antiques and oversized art. These aren’t side jobs we farm out; Reggie and our own crew handle them with equipment built for the piece, not a furniture dolly and a prayer.

From Baytown to Kingwood, Greater Houston moving crew turns the whole job into one flat figure before move day and stands behind it, with nothing extra waiting at the end.

Pianos Done Right

A piano is heavy, awkward and easy to wreck if you treat it like a dresser. We use piano boards, skid plates and straps sized to the instrument, pad it fully, and plan the path through your home before we lift. Greater Houston throws curveballs — a baby grand going up into a raised home near the Trinity River, a grand coming down the interior stairs of a two-story brick house in Kingwood. Reggie walks the approach first so the carry is mapped, not improvised.

Safes, Pool Tables and More

Texas homes come with Texas problems. Acreage houses around Dayton and Liberty County often have a heavy gun safe that has to be skidded and rigged out without gouging the slab floor. Slate pool tables have to be broken down, the slate moved in pieces, and the whole thing re-leveled at the new house. Big aquariums, marble tops, antiques and large framed art all get their own handling plan. Whatever the awkward heavy thing is, we’ve likely moved one.

Clear Add-On Pricing

Specialty handling takes extra people, extra gear and extra time, so we quote it as a plain add-on to your move and tell you the number before move day — never a surprise ‘piano fee’ at the end. Your $105 deposit still credits to the final bill. If the rest of your move is hourly, two movers and a truck are $185 an hour and three are $255. Specialty pieces ride covered at the 60-cents-per-pound released-value standard, with full-value protection optional and up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage per shipment.

  • Uprights, baby grands and full grands moved by our specialty crew
  • Gun safes, slate pool tables, aquariums, antiques and oversized art
  • Right-sized rigging, ramps and raised-home planning
  • Specialty handling quoted as a clear add-on, never a hidden fee

Got a piano or a safe to move? Get my free moving quote and we’ll plan the heavy stuff up front.

What’s included

  • Upright, baby grand and full grand piano moves across Dayton and Greater Houston
  • Reggie Dunn, our piano and specialty lead, on every piano and heavy-specialty job
  • Piano boards, skid plates, straps and padding sized for the instrument, not generic furniture gear
  • Gun safes, pool tables, large aquariums, antiques and oversized art handled with the right rigging
  • Stair, ramp and raised-home planning for elevated houses near Lake Houston and the Trinity River
  • Specialty handling quoted as a clear add-on, deposit of $105 credited to the final bill

How we land on the price

It begins with a short walkthrough or video survey, and off your actual inventory we set one flat Greater Houston rate — no hourly meter hiding anywhere inside it. Whatever that quote reads is the whole price, with nothing tacked on once the truck is loaded or a storm slides in off the Gulf and shifts the date.

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02 How we protect your move

We treat your things the way we'd want ours treated

Every truck pulls out loaded with pads, shrink film, and floor runners — ready to blanket furniture, keep tile and hardwood clean through a muddy summer downpour, and cushion the breakables, whether it's a brick ranch on slab out in Liberty County, an Atascocita home on Lake Houston, or a high-rise condo downtown with a freight elevator to reserve.

Quilted pads

Dressers, dining tables, and headboards get blanketed right where they sit, padding on long before anything rolls toward the door.

Stretch film

Drawers stay shut and cushions stay clean — wrapped tight so road grime and a damp, humid walk to the truck never reach the fabric.

Floor & doorway guards

Runners rolled out, rails wrapped, jambs padded — first thing we do at both homes, so floors and corners look untouched after the last trip out.

Built-to-fit crating

Right in the room, before anything fragile leaves it, we measure a mirror, glass tabletop, framed canvas, or flat screen corner to corner and build the crate around it for a snug, exact fit.

Break-down & rebuild

Bed frames, dining tables, and sectionals come apart to ride safe, and once they're through the new door our crew puts every one back together.

Straps, dollies & gear

A third-floor walk-up downtown, a long load-out across a flooded yard, or the single heaviest piece in the house — each calls up the right tie-downs and rigging off our truck, and none of it gets left behind.

03 Why us

The name on the door of the truck is the same name at the bottom of your contract

Book Space City Movers and the truck rolling up your driveway is ours, the contract is ours, and the uniformed crew walking your sofa out through the Gulf heat is on our Greater Houston payroll — your move never gets sold off. A broker works the other way around: they auction your job to whoever bids lowest that week, collect their cut, and step out of it for good.

Space City Movers
  • Our trucks, our fleet, and the full-time background-checked movers riding in them are on our own payroll — we never fill out a crew with day labor pulled off a listing site
  • The figure we write down is the figure you pay — set, signed, and accurate to the dollar before the first box gets lifted
  • The same crew end to end, from the first piece out the old door to the last one set down at the new place
  • Texas (TxDMV) household-goods registration, USDOT/MC authority for interstate runs, and every job carried on full insurance with up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage
  • One point of contact at our Dayton office, with you from that first call straight through to the last box carried inside
What a broker does
  • Farms your move out to whatever crew undercuts the rest in the week you happened to call
  • Lets the total drift up once the truck shows, stacked with line items nobody mentioned the day you signed
  • Sends strangers you have never spoken to through your front door, putting your whole household in the hands of a crew you can't vouch for
  • Leaves it a guess whose insurer covers it the day a TV corner catches a doorframe
  • Parks a call center between you and whoever finally shows up to load, so one simple question turns into a runaround
04 Reviews

Straight from the Greater Houston families we've moved

★★★★★

“Wonderful service. Travis & Reggie were professional & got the job done quick. Great team.”

Tony A., Humble · Google
★★★★★

“Amazing staff! On time, great personalities, couldn’t be happier! Price point is spot on and service was incredible!”

Patty M., Highlands · Google
★★★★★

“Reggie and Travis were absolutely amazing! Fast, and incredibly thorough service!”

Tom K., Barbers Hill · Google
05 Good to know

Questions we hear about this service

I have a baby grand going into a raised home near Lake Houston with exterior stairs — can you do it?
Yes. Raised and elevated homes are common up here, and moving a baby grand up an exterior stair flight is exactly the kind of job Reggie Dunn plans for. We use a piano board, proper straps and ramps where the steps allow, and we walk the approach before move day so there are no surprises on the carry.
Do you move gun safes and pool tables, or just pianos?
Both, and more. 'Specialty' covers heavy gun safes — common on Texas acreage homes — slate pool tables that have to be broken down and re-leveled, large aquariums, antiques and oversized art. Each gets the right rigging and the right crew. Pianos just happen to be the headline; the heavy-and-fragile work all runs through Reggie.
How is specialty handling priced?
Specialty items are quoted as a clear add-on on top of your move because they take extra equipment, extra people and extra time. We tell you that number up front — no after-the-fact 'piano fee.' Your $105 deposit still credits to the balance, and the instrument or safe rides covered like everything else.

Want us on this job? Start with a free quote.

Tell us what the move involves; from there we work up the flat-rate estimate and send it over the same business day it lands.

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