Cant get new sofas through living room door

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 26 Mar 2018 at 15:13

Looks like he is pretty screwed tbh.
A new house with wide doors is about 92cm, (they are 36inch I think), most older houses are iirc 32inches.

I wonder if that sofa the back comes off. As said often the arms are bolted on, but also the back can be.
Normally the bottom and back and joined and the the arms added, I would hazard a guess on this sofa the base and arms are made and then the back added.

If I was me I would pull the bottom off for a look before doing anything else.

Depending how the feet are joined as well, they may come off.

I would second the comments on the delivery guys being experts. Previous house we had middle floor lounge, delivery guys wizzed a sofa up in minutes. It took us hours to get them back out again as they had to be rotated mid air to get round the wall hand rail, took some serious working out that.

pigeonguyuk · 27 Mar 2018 at 12:42

Would it fit through the window. seen it many times, window out sofa through then window back in

mrbazmondo · 27 Mar 2018 at 13:15

pigeonguyuk said:
Would it fit through the window. seen it many times, window out sofa through then window back in

Cyber-Mav said:
cant go in via window its not a single large pane got smaller windows in it that open type.

Jaaay · 27 Mar 2018 at 17:21

No chance of this working?

Probably requires 3 people at least, towel over the banister to make sure it doesn't get marked. And rotates such that the cushion area is closest to the banister to give you sufficient angle to 'tip' in down into the room

jpaul · 27 Mar 2018 at 21:41

it's a 2'6"/762mm door so maths said no, needs > 800mm ... I think SCS are delinquent not labelling these as, needs a 2'9" mobility door.

maybe he'll update us with a video of his chosen solution

Cyber-Mav · 28 Mar 2018 at 09:28

Its in the room now. All sorted. The upholsterer came and dismantled it and got it in the room.

Lesson learned for the future i wont get single big sofas and will get sectional ones like the corner ones are made of.

CapitalOne · 28 Mar 2018 at 10:40

Cyber-Mav said:
Its in the room now. All sorted. The upholsterer came and dismantled it and got it in the room.

Lesson learned for the future i wont get single big sofas and will get sectional ones like the corner ones are made of.

Also note, I recently purchased one that looks similar to yours, and Sofology sold it either as 1 piece or 2 pieces that the fitters would join together. This is on a normal sofa not a “modular” one.

Randomface74 · 28 Mar 2018 at 10:53

See you again in a few years when you have to get it out LOL

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 28 Mar 2018 at 12:16

So how did it dismantle?

Cyber-Mav · 28 Mar 2018 at 13:52

dunno i left them to it and carried on working on the car. i did have a gander and it was in 3 pieces at one point.

wedrum · 28 Mar 2018 at 13:54

waits for the i just sat on my sofa and it collapsed thread

matthab · 28 Mar 2018 at 14:30

I cant wait when it needs to come out.

When we changed our we found it easier just to hack it up in our front room, then take it to the tip.

jpaul · 28 Mar 2018 at 17:07

... and you were going to redeem the scs furniture brand , by showing us pictures of its inner organs ... or are you selling to the tabloids ?

gort · 28 Mar 2018 at 17:59

Congratulations!

Did you pay the figure you quoted to get it dismantled?

Cyber-Mav · 28 Mar 2018 at 18:34

Yea £198

Insides are cheapo just chipboard making the frame. The upholsterer said its normal since its similar to made in uk stuff. The scs one is made in china. I rekon they get it for probably a quarter of the price.

Iron-man · 28 Mar 2018 at 18:38

would it not have been worth watching them dismantle so if you ever need to remove it you can do it yourself?

Cyber-Mav · 28 Mar 2018 at 20:01

no plans to ever move from this place.

Steampunk · 28 Mar 2018 at 21:18

Cyber-Mav said:
no plans to ever move from this place.

You might want to replace your sofas at some point.

Martynt74 · 29 Mar 2018 at 08:49

Steampunk said:
You might want to replace your sofas at some point.

Then make sure the next one is smaller/in sections and just destroy the current one.

Steampunk · 29 Mar 2018 at 09:08

Marvt74 said:
Then make sure the next one is smaller/in sections and just destroy the current one.

Okay, I'll wait for the thread about not being able to take the old sofas apart.