Moving Pianos with Salt and Time!

It won't come as any surprise to learn that we movers tend not to like winter weather. Driving conditions are bad, traffic is extra slow and loading up is a little more challenging - especially large items of furniture.

Pianos, for example, can be difficult to move at the best of times but I remember on one occasion having particular difficulty because of the amount of snow and ice that was on the steps and pathway from the residence to the truck. We'd had a few skids when carrying boxes and we were not looking forward to moving a piano over the same ground.

Anyway, we reckoned we could lay the path and steps with cardboard to take away the risk. We were about to rip up some old boxes when our client, an old gentleman, told us to take a break and have some coffee. It was very kind of him so, how could we refuse! He served us up and then disappeared for 5 or 6 minutes, and when he returned he chatted away with us until we'd finished.

When it was time to get back at it, maybe after 20 minutes, I went for the cardboard again, but our client said "don't bother". When we stepped outside, the ice was already melting all the way down to the truck. He said, "a little time and a lot of salt, that's all you need". He had scattered salt over the ice while we drank our coffee. That gentleman saved us a lot of bother.