Thanks. I really don't know where it would go in my house. The legs would definitely have to come off to take it though a doorway. I guess I could move the kitchen table and chairs into the family room and then put the piano on its side in the eating area of the kitchen -Yikes! Hard to picture -- lighting fixture would have to come down. If my husband was here, it wouldn't be such a big deal.

I would just let the company replacing your carpet know about the piano and they'll probably have suggestions about how to handle it. I would think they could carpet a portion, then move the piano onto that portion to get to the rest without having to move it to a different room. I do think it would require a nice tip if they are willing to do so. I'm sorry for the loss of your husband.

Blondpegasus - thank you for your kind words.

In 2014, I sold my home to my son and moved into a condo. My son and I decided it was time to let the piano go, so I sold it. My son has since had hardwood fooors installed in the room. So, I never had the floors replaced while the piano was in the room.

I think that is the right decision. If I had stayed in the house and decided to keep the piano, I know I would have eventually hired piano movers. The piano was too valuable to take a chance.

I am facing this issue right now. I have a living room and dining room combo (plus a hallway and 3 bedrooms). There's a baby grand piano in the living room as well as a sectional sofa, wall unit, dining table & credenza in the dining room portion. Wall to wall carpet everywhere which I want to remove and replace with a hardwood floor everywhere. The wall to wall carpet is everywhere on the ground floor, the stairs and the basement, and all the rooms have plenty of furniture, so not even counting the piano, moving stuff around in order to remove the carpet and install new floors would be a major challenge.

Perhaps I'm much better off to treat this as a full move and get everything into storage for the duration of the floor renovation? A few things could be stored in the garage, but not everything for sure. I guess the piano will need specialized movers and storage as well?

I'm also wondering how much this whole project would be likely to cost.

Here's the living room seen from the dining room. That carpet which is everywhere in the house HAS TO GO!

We solved the problem by hiring piano movers to take the baby grand piano apart and stash it in the kitchen (on its side), well covered with a plastic tarp to protect against all the dust. Other movers moved all the furniture out of the living room and dining room into the garage. The contractor we hired removed the carpet everywhere from the ground floor and the stairs to the basement. Since we discovered hardwood parquetry underneath, we opted to have it refinished (sanded, stained and varnished). After the cleanup, the piano movers came back and moved and reassembled the piano in the living room while the other movers moved all he furniture back upstairs from the garage. This first phase lasted about a week and we had to move out of the house for that duration, including the 2 cats.

Then the basement carpet was removed and new engineered wood floors were installed there, along with other renovations to remove ugly (fake) wood paneling from the walls and replacing fluorescent lighting with some pot lights, a couple of weeks later. This second phase took about 2 weeks including painting of basement and stairway walls and cleanup. All this time we kept the piano covered in a plastic tarp and had a plastic tarp hung over the access to the basement to prevent the dust from spreading to the upstairs and the cats from getting in there.

5 weeks of disruption altogether, but with very nice results in the end.

The next phase will involve removing/replacing the moldings and all the ceiling light fixtures (getting rid of the blasted ceiling fans everywhere LOL) and then painting all the upstairs walls and ceilings. Maybe in the spring when we can keep windows open. We are kind of fed up with all the disruption plus we need to find just the right light fixtures.

So we had to redo the floors on the ground floor because the parquetry started popping out. The company that did the job admitted the result was no good and offered to replace the parquetry with engineered wood for free (the labour part) but we had to buy the material. Thank god for Costco! They sell the material for a much better price than any other place.

They did it in 2 days and no movers were needed as they just shifted the furniture out of the way doing half a room at a time. Very good results. Only need to add/replace floor trim at the base of the walls everywhere, over the next couple of days. Also replace 3 doors which are now a bit short and have a wide gap at the bottom after the carpeting was removed.

The best part is we didn't need to hire movers, nor worry about the piano as they easily moved it from one side of the room to another.

I have an 1800's baby grand. It does have castors but I'm not sure how great they work. I can just see the flooring workers coming and balking at it. Good to hear that you didn't have to hire movers again. Did they roll it on it's wheels or lift it up?

Oh they rolled it on its wheels! Otherwise it's 600lbs or so! Thankfully the little wheels work just fine. We will put it back on floor protectors soon.

Im a piano teacher and have two grands. I’ve been through this. They can push the piano to one side of the room (move out the other furniture) and do half of the floor. When that half dries or is completed, move the piano back to the original place. Be sure it has casters under each leg. When back in place, do the remainder of the room. More cost effective, easy to do. Be sure to cover it with a heavy quilt for protection.