Movers in Teller County, CO | Checkmate Piano Movers

Licensed, insured piano and home movers serving Teller County and the Pikes Peak region — flat-rate, on time, every job.

Teller County sits west and up from us, and the climb does most of the talking. From the shop in Colorado Springs we run US-24 out through Manitou Springs, lean into the Ute Pass grade, and crest near Divide before dropping our trucks toward Woodland Park, or carry on the back roads to Cripple Creek and Victor in the old gold country. This is mountain work above 8,000 feet, where a January storm can ice the pass and the air stays bone-dry all year, which is exactly why a piano riding up here gets wrapped and watched the way it does. Nathan walks the grade plan before we ever load a key, because a Steinway and a switchback don’t forgive guesswork.

A lot of these moves are Springs families chasing pines and elbow room above Woodland Park, retirees settling onto an acre near Divide, and the occasional baby grand bound for a great-room home with a wall of mountain glass. We crate the instrument, skid it level, and pad the whole household alongside it, and the same crew that wraps your console on Garden of the Gods Road is the crew unstrapping it in Victor. Every mover is on our W-2 payroll, the name on the truck is ours, and if a Woodland Park closing slides a week we hold the load in our own climate-controlled storage down in the Springs, where the humidity stays right for a piano, until the keys change hands.

Pianos up the Ute Pass Grade to Woodland Park and the Gold Towns

The Teller homes that ask the most of us are the steep mountain builds and the great-rooms with grands, where a piano comes off the truck, onto a skid board, and up a flight without anyone holding their breath. We bring the dollies, the ramps, and the padding the grade demands, and we carry $1M of cargo coverage on every job, instrument or not. Pricing reads plain: a two-mover crew runs $130/hr, three is $175/hr, four is $230/hr, or we set one flat written number after our crew has walked the home, with the haul up US-24 already built into the figure. An upright moves for $280 to $450, a baby grand $500 to $800, a concert grand $750 to $1,300, and a church organ $350 to $650.

Checkmate Movers in Teller County

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What Teller County Families Tell Checkmate

Sandra L.
Sandra L.
Fountain · Google
★★★★★

“We sold our Fountain house before the new one was ready and needed our upright held somewhere safe in the meantime. Checkmate moved it into a climate-controlled unit, which they explained matters a lot here because the dry air can be rough on a piano, and held it about six weeks before redelivering it to us in perfect shape. The storage cost was right there in writing with the move, no surprise second bill. Couldn't have asked for better.”

Clifford A.
Clifford A.
Security-Widefield · Google
★★★★★

“Full house in Security-Widefield with a spinet piano along for the ride, and as a Fort Carson family on PCS orders we needed it to go clean. Carla scheduled around our report dates, the crew turned up squared away, and the spinet got the same treatment as everything else, padded and strapped with not a single mark. For a household working off a military budget, a fixed written number was a genuine relief. Anyone at Carson, give them a call.”

Cynthia C.
Cynthia C.
Cimarron Hills · Google
★★★★★

“Our Cimarron Hills job paired a baby grand with an ordinary 2-bed, and naturally there was snow on the ground that morning. The crew salted and laid boards across the icy walk before wheeling the piano out, pulled the legs and skidded the body, and got it loaded without a scuff. Everything else in the house felt easy next to that. They even reminded us to let the grand settle and have it tuned once it adjusted to the new room. Total pros.”

Marvin H.
Marvin H.
Palmer Lake · Google
★★★★★

“Just needed our upright moved from Palmer Lake down into town, but it was the week after Christmas and bitter cold. Two of Checkmate's guys came out, padded it head to toe, and walked it down our porch steps and up into the new place without any drama. They clearly knew what they were doing with the instrument, not just muscling it like ordinary furniture. Fair price, on time, done right.”

Questions People Ask Checkmate

How does Checkmate get a piano up US-24 and Ute Pass to Woodland Park or Cripple Creek?
We run US-24 west out of Colorado Springs, climb the Ute Pass grade through Manitou, and crest near Divide before dropping into Woodland Park or carrying on to Cripple Creek and Victor. Our piano crew skids and straps the instrument so the switchbacks and the altitude never load it wrong, and the drive folds into your price, whether you go hourly at $130/hr for two movers or take the flat written number Nathan sets after we walk the home.
We're sending a baby grand to a great-room home above Divide. Does the dry mountain air hurt it on the way up?
The Front Range air is dry year-round and even drier above 8,000 feet, which is why we crate and pad a grand instead of leaving it exposed in a cold trailer on the pass. Our trained crew skids the baby grand level, watches it the whole climb, and if it has to wait it sits in our own climate-controlled storage in the Springs where the humidity stays right. A baby grand move runs $500 to $800, an upright $280 to $450.
If our Woodland Park closing slips, will Checkmate hold our things until the date firms up?
Yes. The load goes into our own climate-controlled storage down in Colorado Springs, around $110 to $260 a month by unit size, not a cold cabin shed where a piano would suffer. The day your date locks, the same crew that loaded you runs everything back up the pass. Checkmate Piano Movers is licensed under Colo. PUC, and.

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