Baltimore is the easy southbound jog, a half-day run our trucks make all the time. From a Delaware load it works out to about 70 miles: I-95 south out of Newark, across the Susquehanna on the Tydings Bridge near Havre de Grace, then down through Harford County into the city, roughly an hour and a quarter of seat time on a good morning. No motel to book, hardly a lunch stop to schedule. Spencer pencils it as one round trip, so a household leaving Bear, Middletown, or downtown Wilmington can be loaded by mid-morning and unloaded the same afternoon around Federal Hill, Canton, Towson, or out the Baltimore beltway.
Seventy miles barely registers; the Susquehanna crossing and the Baltimore approach set the rhythm. The Tydings Bridge funnels traffic and catches a hard crosswind off the river, so the lead times the run to dodge the worst of the I-95 backups into the city. The flat number Spencer writes back in Delaware does not move for traffic. A piano gets the full treatment even on a short pull. Our piano crew skids the upright or baby grand, blankets it, and keeps it level over the bridge, because the Mid-Atlantic humidity swings between the Brandywine and the harbor can throw an instrument off pitch faster than the miles ever could. Many of Baltimore’s older Federal Hill and Fells Point rowhomes come with steep marble stoops and pinched formstone doorways, so we measure and pad before a single piece comes off.
The whole Baltimore trip rides in one set of Delaware hands. The crew boxing your Wilmington kitchen is the crew toting those boxes up your Baltimore stoop, sharing a single truck for the short pull over the Susquehanna. A Lewis job never lands on a board, never gets handed to a stranger with a rig, and never swaps drivers at the Maryland line. Price is your pick: two movers at $140 an hour, truck and pads part of it, three at $190, four at $250, or Spencer walks the place and pens one flat figure. Uprights go $300 to $480, baby grands $540 to $880, a concert grand $800 to $1,400, each set down on paper.
Headed down to Baltimore for a job, a rowhome, or to be closer to the harbor? Drop us the two addresses, say which floor and building, give us the date, and we hand back a firm price in writing.