Reminds me of my own hilarious large furniture movements. Someone bought a love seat for the home I reside in, didn’t bother measuring anything, and asked me to retrieve it from the store. A very kind gentleman was paid to bring it from the store to the outside of the house. I took one look at the love seat, one look at the door, and asked him to kindly leave because he didn’t want to be any part of the process of getting it inside.
I ultimately took a circular saw to the back of the love seat and later reattached it and stapled the fabric back on.
Omigod. That’s extreme.
It had a weird stylistic hump in the center that was the major cause of the problem. I was fully aware upon a handful of measurements that there wasn’t even a chance it was going to fit. My cut was only enough of the back to get it through the door. I realized upon rereading I made it sound like I removed the whole thing.
Even now, 5 years later you can’t tell it was operated on unless you take a good look at the back of it.
I just wonder if you’ll settle into it one day and it’ll just come apart.
It definitely won’t. Maybe if I somehow push on that weird upper hump while positioning myself to sit I may have an issue, but otherwise it’s very much still solid.
…(Homeowner) Luke says he refused to sign the delivery forms after it was suggested he cut off his bannisters…
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That customer sounds insufferable. Might well be the fault of the company but him going on about how much his house cost (and the sofa) makes him sound like a right tosspot.
It’s not much of a brag, he probably doesn’t have any cash for repairs.
Also they approached the staircase wrong, you put the top side down so that you can cup around obstacles.
I would guess, homeowner Luke is ok moneywise. If that couples photo on the website is his home… a brief analysis… correlation of christmas tree and miniskirt suggest an indoor temp of +72’F; an animal skin rug is under the dinning table (expensive choice); and the couple are likely childless (displayed book titled “Creatures With Cocks”).
That’s on a assumption it is his home. Still, how and why Mr. Luke resorted to get the delivery guy to heave-ho-ing; it comically should’ve never come to that.
Or they could be up to their eyeballs in debt and any small expense sends them into credit card debt. That’s sadly quite common…
I guess his wife does look out of his league, you might be right
I can hear that picture
Just take the feet off. It’ll go.
This is why it can be easy to find a free piano. You can take it if you can take it.
Why anyone pays for a piano is beyond me. If you’ll take it out of someone’s house they’ll gladly hand it to you. The very great musician Neko Case made a piano orchestra out of several free pianos she put in her barn to record with.
This looks a lot like a house i lived in during my studies. We had to known down the rail… :))
ETA: i mean it REALLY looks like the same staircase, including the little door.
PIVOT!!!
PIVEHHHHHHT
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUP!
“Hey Ross, when you were yelling ‘piv-AT piv-AT,’ what did you mean?”
My grandpa got a pool table in his basement in a very similar stair condition. To this day, I have no idea how beyond the fact that he had a come along tied to a 4x4 across the basement door. We just left it down there when we sold the house.
I still have no idea how people get grand pianos into their houses.
the legs come off a grand, they turn it 90d and wheel it on a cart. seen this done, required tall doors tho.
Hmmm interesting. Still sounds very difficult.
it’s quite the workout even with a bunch of big guys and the right equipment.
We have that problem with our late parents house. The grand piano was placed into a second-floor room by removing the window casing and using a crane.
We are hoping that the piano will sell with the house.
First they buy and place the piano, THEN they build the house.
This actually happens. Had a relative that bought one of a row of townhouses being built back in the 60s. The company building the houses thought it would be a sweet incentive to include a piano with each one, so now everyones house in that row has a busted old stand up piano in the basement that’s impossible to remove without some sort of demolition.
WOW. When the app popped up your comment, I saw the first sentence and I tried to guess which of my comments it was a response to. Then I went like “no way”.
No matter how hard you try to come up with some surrealist bullshit, chances are someone had thought of the same and went like “this is a great idea”.
There is plenty of room to rotate it over the newel.
Do a barrel roll!
There is a pullout bed in that couch, which makes this even more difficult because it is heavier, pops open when tipped, and will put you in the hospital.
Looks to me like they were trying to get it down narrow stairs into a finished basement. I’ve been in the same situation many a time. This is solvable, though still a pain in the ass even when you get it just right.
Welp, I guess we’re never going upstairs again.
I love older homes because they were built to last.
I hate them because you can’t move anything anywhere without a saw.
Older homes are not build to last. Older homes are just worth preserving. I live in the Netherlands we have a shit ton of old homes, if these homes weren’t repaired or renovated across the centuries most of them would have collapsed. Before modern build codes, like before the 20th century, it wasn’t uncommon for an old home to just collapse with the inhabitants in it.
In many Dutch cities old homes are literally sinking into the ground, but instead of demolishing them most owners put in a new foundation. If it was an ugly modern glass box it would have been razed to the ground without a second thought.
Interesting. There are a ton of homes here built (starting about 1920) that still stand. And trust me they were built to last. Minor upkeep and they are still good today, but then everything is going to require minor upkeep.
My house was built in the late 19th century with an expansion added on in the 40s. The build quality of the original part of the house compared to the later built section is night and day, with the newest part of the house being the part that has aged so much worse due to trying out this new wood framing thing they started really getting into after the war
Wood framing has been around a lot longer than that?
Specifically light framing which was pioneered in the early 20th century and became the dominant construction method in North America during the post-war housing boom.
Survivors bias. You don’t see the old houses that weren’t built well because they’re gone.
Look at trainguyrom and read his comment it might give you a different perspective.
I would also say the ones that didn’t survive were the ones that failed do to not being maintained.
I too owned a house built in the late 19th century with an addition built probably around the same time! The houses in the neighborhood were built to house workers from the steel mills nearby. On the main streets you had the foreman houses. Lots of brick, well made. My house was a worker’s house, a stick frame shotgun shack. What little of a foundation it had was a few rows of bricks set upon railroad ties just below the surface. Most likely the only reason it is still standing is because it is on top of a hill and the soil drains quickly. When the wind would blow real hard the house would lean enough that the front door would open. The latch could get past the jam. Fixed it with shims but you get the idea. Nowadays building code would require a foundation built on footers beneath the frost line. (4 feet here) Another building code that is a big improvement is requiring (I forget the proper name) walls to be built in such a way that the space in-between studs doesn’t act like a chimney in case of a fire. Major safety improvement there. I now own a house at least a hundred years old. Same story, built to house quarry workers. Fortunately someone who owned this house before me poured a concrete foundation all the way around. The additions on both my houses are pretty amateur probably because they were done by the homeowners and there was little enforcement of building codes if there were any.
Also well built houses also fall into ruin due to disrepair. Here in Cleveland there used to be Millionair’s Row. A street where the titans of industry built their mansions, the Rockefellers, Carnegie, Mellon. Very few still exist due to being expensive to maintain. I have a lot of experience with old buildings not only in my personal life but also at work (I’m a contractor) also most of my friends are in the trades with experience in old homes. Suffice to say just because a house is old is no indication of its quality. I can say plenty of bad stuff about new houses too.
We had to literally take our stairs apart to get our bed upstairs. Convenient!
We ultimately had to not use the upstairs for our bedroom because a queen sized bed can’t fit up the stairs. We use the largest main floor room as our bedroom (which inconveniently one has to walk through that room to get to the stairs)
It’s pretty clear that the stuff people choose to have in their homes today is different from the stuff people chose to have in their homes a century ago
The amount of furniture moving we do today is pretty insane. I kind of hate it.
One more step in this direction and suddenly even kitchen cabinets are separate pieces, carried up and down and in and out and around tight corners. No longer attached to the wall. Just another freestanding cabinet, there in the kitchen, with some dust, two coins, a random piece from a toy and a few dead bugs behind it. So sometimes you’ll feel like you have to pull the whole thing away from the wall and clean behind it. And you’ll have to remove all the dishes first, becouse the MDF panels and their connections are not strong enough to witstand all that weight while being pulled and twisted and turned. And even then you’ll notice a bit more wobble than last time. So maybe you’ll cut a rough match with the baseboard and screw it into the wall when you put it back. Or maybe you won’t, either way it still won’t be good.
When you end up moving a few years later, depending on your financial situation, you’ll remove the terrible cabinet snd either toss it or bring the poorly built half-mangled half-mess still technically usable thing to the new apartment. An apartment someone else just pulled a kitchen cabinet and everything else out of. And it was hard and annoying for them, too. And just like you, they’re not happy either.
I don’t think it is so much a thing of today unless you mean for the last few decades at least. Kitchens in particular are very weird since people just rip them out out of spite it seems just so the person renting the place next will have to buy a new one.
Not sure where you live but where I live no one takes the kitchen cabinets when they move (us here.)
… and no 90º angle is actually 90º
I feel this one in my soul.
Got u fam
For the railing or the couch?
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Yes.
The wall? Or maybe just saw the stairs apart. Fuck it, burn the house down and start over.
When moving into our house years ago I got our couch stuck in the stairs. I had to sawzall it into 3 pieces to get it out and take it to the dump
Long time ago, first time my wife left me alone for a week since we got together, I decided to go on a Xanax bender. I didn’t remember a fucking thing. But, we had a basement with a spiral type stairway where the washer and dryer were. She came home and went to wash her clothes and yelled, “what the actually FUCK!?” there was an entire sheet of plywood wedged in that stairwell, impossibly stuck. She demanded an explanation that I simply could not provide so I played it off like I was doing a building project down there and it got stuck. I had to sawzall that thing to get it out. When we went down we discovered I had built an entire grow cabinet for weed which was entirely up and running. I was like, “surprise!”
She was surprised alright, but not as much as I was lol.
