Furniture and Piano Dollies

Low to the floor and broadly designed to handle bulky furniture and heavy pianos, these dollies are made of steel with special wheels that make maneuvering in tight spaces a breeze.

Professional Choices in Furniture Movers

Most refer to these low-to-the-ground dollies as piano dollies or furniture dollies. What they really should be labelled as are furniture movers. These platform-like dollies are designed to center the weight of bulky furniture to make moving them fluid and safe.

There are many kinds of flat furniture movers out there but you’ve got to be careful if you want it to handle the load. Furniture dollies made of wood, plastic and fiberglass will break and bend – making an easy task dangerous. Dutro’s furniture movers are built on a foundation of steel. They are rated at a minimum of 1200 lbs.

Amazon and similar marketplaces have a seemingly endless supply of cheap alternatives. Read the fine print and choose carefully. You don’t want to sacrifice your expensive furniture, the floor and your walls when a $50 Amazon dolly fails after you have put the weight on it. The size of the platform, the kind and size of wheels it has, and the material it is made of matters. That is why professional furniture movers opt for our steel piano dollies. The difference in price is more than made up for in enduring performance.

Here are some things to consider with these furniture movers:

  1. Take a good look at the size of the wheels. The bigger wheels do lift your furniture higher off the floor. All steel casters distribute the weight and hard rubber wheels keep that weight from marring the floors. This is the one consistent complaints we hear about cheap floor dollies from big box stores and online retailers out there. Their tiny wheels collapse under the weight and their cheap soft rubber wheels leave marks or dents in floors. Don’t skimp on the wheels.
  2. Weight rating of dollies found on marketplaces like Walmart or Amazon are not what they claim. Read the reviews, they will tell you the weight capacity claims of sellers are bogus. Professionals turn to steel furniture dollies because heavy cabinets, pianos, couches or other bulky and heavy items will not bend steel.
  3. Should all four wheels completely swivel? Or should only two? Swivel casters give you flexibility in tight turns and in moving fluidly with something heavy. We offer a variety of wheels on our steel-framed floor dollies.
  4. Size matters as well when it comes to the dimensions of the dolly. Our 19×26 inch dolly was designed under the advice of professional movers. These dimensions are preferred for most large furniture items. It is narrow enough on one end to balance odd-shaped but heavy cabinetry such as bookcases, hutches and dining tables. But it is wide enough on the other to balance lighter pieces such as sofas, beds and recliners. If it is smaller balance becomes an issue. It is is larger getting things through doorways is difficult. You want a dolly flexible under a variety of circumstances.
  5. There is some controversy over the top surface of dollies of this type. Some make them with “no-slip” materials that are hard. Others use padded or carpeted materials that won’t mar the surface of furniture. We take a “just right” approach with a tight-nap carpet that grips the load while safeguarding if from scratches.