Dimond Movers LTD is a trusted local piano moving team serving Oxford (OX1, OX2, OX3, OX4) and the wider Oxfordshire area. Oxford is a city of college quads, listed Georgian and Victorian terraces, modern Summertown and Headington family homes and a constant churn of students and academics arriving every September. Uprights, baby grands and full concert grands handled with proper skates, straps, padded covers and a four person lift when the access calls for it.
We move pianos in and around Oxford every week. We know the postcodes (OX1, OX2, OX3, OX4), the access routes, and the local quirks before we arrive.
From a teaching upright in a Oxford terrace to a Steinway grand in a country home, we have the kit, the crew size and the experience for every piano type.
Heavy duty piano skates, four-wheel dollies, padded covers, ratchet straps and stair climbing equipment carried on every job.
Comprehensive Goods in Transit and Public Liability cover on every piano move as standard. Cover details available on request.
Tight stairs, narrow doors and first floor flats are routine for us. Where needed we deploy a piano lift service for Oxford properties that can't be done internally.
Pianos are heavy, fragile and irreplaceable. Our crews are trained to move slowly, communicate constantly and protect the instrument and your home.
Make, model, location in Oxford, destination and any stairs or tight access points.
A coordinator confirms the inventory, access and crew size needed (video survey usually enough).
We confirm parking, lift access, time window and crew size before we arrive. Central Oxford parking is heavily controlled with permits and short loading windows, so we plan crews and timings around college access rules.
Crew lifts, transports and places the piano exactly where it needs to go we don't leave until you're happy.
Oxford is a city of college quads, listed Georgian and Victorian terraces, modern Summertown and Headington family homes and a constant churn of students and academics arriving every September. Whether your piano is in a town centre flat, a Victorian terrace or a substantial family home on the outskirts of Oxford, our team has the right combination of kit, crew size and patience to do the move properly.
Pianos punish careless movers. The wrong lift on a staircase can crack the case, snap a leg or worse, hurt someone. Our Oxford crews are trained to plan the route, protect the instrument, protect your floors and walls, and move at the right pace.
An upright weighs 180 to 260 kg, a baby grand 230 to 320 kg and a full concert grand can exceed 500 kg. Each type needs different handling, different equipment and a different crew size. We never send the wrong size team to a Oxford piano move.
Grand pianos are typically dismantled before transit legs, lyre and pedals removed and the case wrapped, transported on its side on a specialist skate, then reassembled at the destination. Every step is handled by our team, not contracted out.
A surprising number of Oxford piano moves involve tight Victorian staircases, narrow Edwardian hallways or first floor flats with no lift. Where the piano genuinely cannot go up or down a staircase safely, we deploy a specialist external piano lift through a window or balcony.
Our coordinator will spot a difficult access job at the survey stage and price the lift into the fixed quote no surprises on the day.
Around two thirds of our Oxford piano moves stay within Oxfordshire and the neighbouring counties. The rest go further typically London, the South Coast, the Cotswolds or the Midlands. Same crew, same equipment, same fixed price.
For piano sales we frequently collect from a Oxford address and deliver to a buyer hundreds of miles away. We coordinate with the seller, the buyer, and any tuner involved.
Every Oxford piano move we run starts with the same three questions: what postcode (OX1, OX2, OX3, OX4), what's the parking situation, and what's inside. Central Oxford parking is heavily controlled with permits and short loading windows, so we plan crews and timings around college access rules. That's why quoting a Oxford piano move sight-unseen from a national comparison site so often goes wrong — the OX1 kerb rules aren't the same as the ones in the next town over.
In Oxford we work everywhere from Summertown and Headington across to Jericho and the villages beyond. Oxford is a city of college quads, listed Georgian and Victorian terraces, modern Summertown and Headington family homes and a constant churn of students and academics arriving every September. There is no such thing as a standard property here, so what really shapes a piano move is narrow stairs, listed staircases, doorframes and the odd upstairs floorboard we can't trust. A crew that has already worked those streets this quarter will always plan it better than a quote generated from a postcode alone.
We cover all of Oxford and the surrounding Oxfordshire towns and villages.
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Indicative 2026 prices for piano removals in Oxford and across Oxfordshire. Proper kit, trained crew and full insurance are included, never charged as extras.
| Service / Size | Guide Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Upright piano, ground floor to ground floor | £180-£320 | Two-person crew, piano board, skates and padded covers. Local moves within one town. |
| Upright piano, stairs at one or both ends | £280-£480 | Three crew where the staircase turns; uprights are top-heavy, so stairs are a crew decision not an extra. |
| Baby grand (up to 5'8") | £380-£650 | Legs and lyre removed, body on a padded skid, reassembled and levelled at delivery. |
| Grand / concert grand (6' and over) | £550-£1,200 | Four crew, full strip-down, purpose-made skid. Concert instruments quoted after a site visit. |
| Long-distance piano move (over 50 miles) | from £420 | Dedicated vehicle with strapping points and climate-sensible loading, not a shared load. |
| Piano within a house (room to room) | £120-£240 | Includes floor protection and re-levelling; common after redecorating or a new floor. |
| Hoist, crane or window removal | quoted on survey | Rare, but the honest answer when a grand cannot come down a stairwell. |
| Tuning after the move | £90-£150 | Arranged with a local tuner 2-3 weeks after delivery, once the instrument has settled. |
Oxford piano moves are usually decided by the front door, not the piano. Victorian terraces in Jericho, East Oxford and Osney have narrow hallways with a sharp turn at the foot of the stairs, and the original doors are often narrower than the modern standard - so we measure the doorway and the turn before quoting, and bring a crew of three where a two-person lift would end up scraping the case.
College, chapel and school moves in central Oxford come with their own timing rules: restricted vehicle access inside the ring of bollards, delivery windows outside teaching hours, and porters' lodge sign-in. We arrange those permissions in advance rather than turning up and negotiating.
North Oxford's large Victorian villas usually take a grand comfortably, but the split-level rear extensions and stone garden steps common in Summertown and Headington are where crews get caught out. Those steps are the reason we ask for photos of the outside route as well as the inside one.
A piano move is decided by the route, not the instrument. We walk the full path first - vehicle position, threshold, hallway width, staircase turns, floor surface - and size the crew to the hardest point on that route. That is why our quotes sometimes send more people than a cheaper quote, and why the instrument arrives without a mark on the case.
Every job travels on a dedicated vehicle with fixed strapping points, upright and restrained, with covers on the case and runners on your floors at both ends. Nothing goes on a shared load between wardrobes.
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Goods in Transit and storage cover on every Oxford piano removals job.
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