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Do you mean like the time we got an overstuffed sofa, loveseat and chair, then had to remove the screen and drag them in through our picture window?
We discovered that a double recliner sofa could be taken apart with a circular saw.
When we moved in the sofa was a bear to move because it was so heavy, but standing it on an end, we could snake it through the back door (after unsuccessfully attempting to take it through the front door, which is the same width as the garage door).
Over the years the back door got a screen door and the porch itself got screened with screen doors. The back door and porch screen doors are smaller even than the front door so we faced removing an entire window and then putting it back in. We decided to leave the sofa inside the house until one day my son flipped it on its face and it was pretty obvious how it could be cut into sections that were manageable through the doors and also light enough to carry fairly easily.
When we moved in the sofa was a bear to move because it was so heavy, but standing it on an end, we could snake it through the back door (after unsuccessfully attempting to take it through the front door, which is the same width as the garage door).
Over the years the back door got a screen door and the porch itself got screened with screen doors. The back door and porch screen doors are smaller even than the front door so we faced removing an entire window and then putting it back in. We decided to leave the sofa inside the house until one day my son flipped it on its face and it was pretty obvious how it could be cut into sections that were manageable through the doors and also light enough to carry fairly easily.
I LOVE this!!!! Do you do Freecycle?
I had one Freecycle deck box that was too big for my car.
The headslapper was the big girl fridge. The fridge would fit through the door, but not the box it came in. I hired a handyman for the next delivery date.
I had one Freecycle deck box that was too big for my car.
The headslapper was the big girl fridge. The fridge would fit through the door, but not the box it came in. I hired a handyman for the next delivery date.
@Shop-et-al wrote:
These less old's were left where people leave stuff that they think other tenants can use.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
During the first year of a long-ago marriage, my husband built a canoe in the living room of our apartment. We had to remove a window to extricate it that spring. We were student poor, so having a canoe was quite a big deal.
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Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Last month husband & I drove almost two hours to a store to pick up a new gas grill and avoid about two hundred dollars in delivery fees. Sure enough the box it was in would not fit into my 4 door Toyota Corolla. We unpacked each component and wedged everything into the car. I think my feet were on one box and something was on my lap. Luckily we had lunch courtesy of a mystery shop and shipped a package USPS on the way TO the pick up.
But @Flash could you put it together again?
@prince wrote:
But @Flash could you put it together again?
No interest in doing so. In fact if it had been easy to get out of the house it would have parted company with us about 5 years earlier as a worn out sofa.
I have taken furniture apart with a saw, but the only thing that was thrown out was the upholstery and the foam cushions the wood was used in the attic so that we could walk in the attic without having to balance on the crossbeams.
As an aside, many sofas and recliners are meant to be taken apart, at least as far as the top from the base. There are usually "hooked in" pieces on the bottom of the top piece (bottom of the top...yeah that's crystal clear), that fit into a curved piece at the top of the bottom piece (ugh!) Some also have large screws that can be seen when cushions are all removed or when the recliner is fully reclined and upside down. (I feel like I'm trying to write IKEA instructions.)
I understand that most sofas these days are take apart. The one we took apart was used when I bought it around 1980 and was moved to the new place in 1997. There were no 'ah ha!' moments as we took it apart with the circular saw that there was 'a better way' we just hadn't seen.
I bought a fridge and had it delivered at some point. A couple of weeks ago we decided to relocate it to another house. Apparently the new door I had installed in the meantime was just enough smaller...
Kim
I had the deliverymen put the fridge that was being replaced in the garage. After the big girl fridge was set up, the screen door was in place, and the handyman left, I realized the put the old fridge in the middle of the garage floor.
Luckily, I was able to move it against the wall with no problem.
Luckily, I was able to move it against the wall with no problem.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
Fun to watch the pros move an oversize fridge through standard size doors. They opened the door to have an L shaped item if viewed from above.. With the refrigerator that much thinner, they snaked the short part of the L through the door and kept gently turning as the rest of the fridge followed. They removed no doors and touched no door frames as the fridge glided right on out to the moving truck.
The deliverymen who brought my fridge in had to bring the big box up the outside stairs and into the balcony doors. The way they brought it up the stairs was something to watch. They had harnesses all over and moved in perfect synchronicity.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
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