AD Movers moves gun safes with dollies rated above the safe weight, enough hands for the stairs, and plywood and pads to protect your house, then sets the safe where you want it. Safes carry a specialty charge that depends on weight and stairs and shows in your quote.
Gun Safe Moves We Handle
Small gun safes weigh a few hundred pounds. Large fire-rated safes can go past half a ton. Either way the weight sits high, the safe is top-heavy, and the hard part is the route out of the house, the steps and the floor it lands on.
Slab house to slab house, no steps. Still a safe job: the safe goes on a rated dolly, plywood covers thresholds and soft flooring, and the crew walks it out slowly with someone spotting every turn.
Many older New Orleans houses sit up on piers with a run of front steps, and some safes go to a second floor. We ask how many steps there are at both ends before quoting, because steps decide the crew size.
A heavy safe on an old raised wood floor should sit near a wall or over a support, not in the middle of a span. If a spot looks wrong to the crew, we say so before setting it down. For a firm answer on your floor, ask a contractor.
Floor bolts are usually reached from inside the safe, so open it and pull them before move day, or open it for our crew while you watch. Anchoring it at the new house is work for your safe installer or a handyman. We set it on the spot so they can finish.
What a Safe Move Includes
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Before move day we ask for the brand and model or the weight from the manual, plus a phone photo of the safe and the steps. That tells us how many movers to send and which dolly to bring.
Floor runners go down, plywood covers thresholds and heart pine or tile, and the door jambs get padded. With a safe, the walls and floors take the risk more than the steel box does.
The safe is strapped to the dolly and moved down steps one at a time, with movers above and below controlling the weight. In the truck it rides standing, strapped to the wall, with nothing leaning on it.
Who Moves Your Safe
A safe holds firearms, papers and cash, so who comes into your house matters. AD Movers has been in business in New Orleans since 2013.
How It Works
Book online or call 7am to 7pm, seven days a week. The rate is the same on Saturday and Sunday.
Put both addresses in the form above for a ballpark price in about 60 seconds, then tell us the safe's weight or model so the specialty charge can be set.
Choose a morning or afternoon start. Be home for the move, and plan to unload the safe yourself the day before so firearms and ammunition travel with you.
The crew protects the floors, straps the safe to the dolly, moves it to the truck, and sets it in the new spot you pick. Show them exactly where it goes before they lift, since moving it twice is extra time.
Your Moving Crew
Old New Orleans door frames, marble thresholds and heart pine floors do not stand up to a few hundred pounds of steel on small wheels. That is why plywood and jamb pads go down first and the safe rolls instead of being dragged or walked corner to corner.
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Equipped for Every Move
An ordinary furniture dolly under a heavy safe is how people get hurt and how floors get cracked. We bring a dolly rated above your safe weight, ratchet straps, plywood sheets and floor runners. Check our state license yourself at the LPSC site.
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Areas We Serve
We move safes in New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Harahan, the Westbank and the Northshore, alone or as part of a full house move.
Common Questions
A safe move is billed by the hour like any local move, plus a specialty charge based on the safe weight and the steps at each house. The online tool gives a ballpark price in about 60 seconds, and the specialty charge is set once you tell us the weight or model. You get the final price before move day.
Yes. Take out firearms, ammunition, cash and papers and move them yourself. An empty safe is lighter and safer to handle, and contents shifting inside can damage the door and shelves. Close and lock the door before the crew arrives. If shelves are removable, take them out or tie them so they do not rattle loose on the stairs.
No. We never need to open the safe. Lock it before we arrive and keep the combination to yourself. The only thing we need is to know the door is locked, so it cannot swing open on the stairs. If it is bolted down, open it once to pull the floor bolts, or have the crew do it with you there.
Yes, in most cases. Front steps on raised houses and stairs to a second floor are common jobs. We need the step count, whether the stairs turn, and the weight before quoting, because those decide crew size and gear. If a staircase looks unsafe for the weight, we tell you before move day rather than at the bottom step.
Yes. Our Louisiana Public Service Commission license is LPSC license #8127, and AD Movers is fully insured, with every full move insured. The movers are AD Movers employees, background-checked, who answer to the owner. You can verify the license on the LPSC website before you book, and call our office with any question.
As much as you can give, especially at the end of the month or with a full house move. Same-day and last-minute safe moves are possible when a crew with the right dolly is free, so call (504) 237-0855 and ask. The office answers from 7am to 7pm every day, and weekend rates match weekdays.
Yes, along with a household move. We run long-distance moves on our Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Atlanta and Chicago routes and other interstate moves. Firearms laws change from state to state, so move the guns themselves according to the rules where you are headed, and let us handle the empty safe.
All of New Orleans, plus Metairie, Kenner, Harahan, the Westbank and the Northshore, including Slidell and Mandeville. If you are farther out, call first and we will tell you whether a crew can reach you. Safe-only jobs and safes moved inside a full move are both welcome, and the specialty charge applies to each.
We confirm the price before move day, we protect your floors and door frames, and we do not start a lift we cannot finish. If the spot you picked looks wrong for the weight, we say so before we are standing in your hallway. If something is not right, tell us that day and the owner will call you.
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Licensed, fully insured gun safe movers in New Orleans. Get a ballpark in about 60 seconds, then send the weight and step count.
AD Movers is a licensed & insured New Orleans moving company providing local and long-distance moving across the areas we serve.
