Getting Sofas upstairs

PiKe

PiKe

PiKe

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We were given a sofa which we found was impossible to get up our stairs, we were unable to manoeuvre it around the first corner and it got wedged between the walls.

Is there a particular make or brand that features a modular design in order to easily get it up stairs?

And before anyone says pivoting was not an option :p
 
You can usually disassemble sofas. It's not completely obvious but you can. How do you think the arm rests and backs are stuck together? A sofa forgmaster didn't forge a sofa frame from one piece of solid tree.

It's modular. Have a bang on it, and then take it apart.
 
With mine, I had to make holes in the covering stuff (that thin, black stuff that you can easily put your hand through if you're not careful) which allowed me to get to the bolts that hold the arms on. Two of those on either side out and the arms come off nicely. The holes I made go at the bottom, so worked out nicely.

Not all sofas are that easy though, but most of them should be fairly easy to take apart.
 
PiKe said:
We were given a sofa which we found was impossible to get up our stairs, we were unable to manoeuvre it around the first corner and it got wedged between the walls.

Is there a particular make or brand that features a modular design in order to easily get it up stairs?

And before anyone says pivoting was not an option :p
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Yes, they are called chairs :p
 
The backs come off on our sofas making it significantly smaller. They were recliners bought from Furniture Village.
 
Just had a feel around down the side of the one we couldn't get up but the backrest is joined onto the arms and the fabric is stapled up underneath.

I can't feel any bolts that would facilitate removing either the arms or back rest from this particular sofa.
 
As our living room is on the first floor with an awkward staircase (doesn't go straight up but instead has two turns at the top and bottom with annoying bannister furniture getting in the way) we deliberately bought a sofa where the ends could be easily removed - I don't know how common that is though.
 
Craig321 said:
With mine, I had to make holes in the covering stuff (that thin, black stuff that you can easily put your hand through if you're not careful) which allowed me to get to the bolts that hold the arms on. Two of those on either side out and the arms come off nicely. The holes I made go at the bottom, so worked out nicely.

Not all sofas are that easy though, but most of them should be fairly easy to take apart.
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That's what I did, though I managed to get it upstairs without a problem but couldn't get it into living room due to low ceiling in the corridor and not enough room to manoeuvre it round the corner.
 
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