moving a couch

[picksbigwagon]

my wife and I just bought a new couch and chair and the sales lady keeps calling with the dimensions making sure we can get it through the door. It is a 84" long couch which is not the problem it is 41" by 37" for heighth and width. Now our problem is could we get a couch with those dimensions in a 31" wide door frame. the feet come off which gives us 3" less, but we are not sure if it then becomes a 38x37 or a 41X34. anyone have experience with this professionally or can anyone here crunch the numbers mathmatically to figure out if it will work? I will mock up some lumber this weekend, but any expertise would be awesome.........Thanks for the help, it is a really nice couch and chair, something that is comfortable for someone as big as me is rare..........

[PierBridge]

The couch will fit through that size door.

That doesn't mean the couch will fit through your door into your house though you'll need some room on the inside of the door but you should be able to angle it and get the Armrest rapped around the door frame then lifting upward as it enters the house.

[eurolarva]

We had a similar problem. We had a set of sliding windows that took about 2 minutes to take the glass sashes off. We were then able to move it to the back yard and slide it through the window. as mentioned if you have any turns near that door 84 inches is a lot of couch to turn.

[huntingislife]

Yep, that should make it if you tilt it. And as everybody else said, as long as you have 84 inches inside the door. Good luck.

[McGurk]

A 31" door is going to be pretty tricky. I had to fight a similar sized couch through a similar door, and that was NOT fun. Make sure you are using all 3 dimensions (up and down, rotating the couch to swing the arms, and tilting the couch to get the narrowest width). If you do need to scrape it across some jambs, throw a tarp over it so the tarp takes most of the abuse. Take all of the doors off the hinges that you need to get through and have plenty of warm bodies to help maneuver it.

Not that I'm volunteering .

[picksbigwagon]

thanks everybody, that was my feeling too, we have more than enough length in the entry way from the garage and then it is just a turn into the den. we moved our current couch (101" long) in through that same door, but the dimensions of this couch is a lot different. makes me feel a lot better after the day I had yesterday.

My wife laughed at me last night when I said I was going to post it here, I knew with 20K+ members that we would have someone here who could help. This site is awesome

[ice_it_06]

picksbigwagon:

Remove the legs on it and put a moving pad down at the doors entrance for protection and "end" the couch. (stand it up on end) Walk it in around the door frame with the back rest going in first towards the "open" part of the room. Once in the entrance you should be able to drop the top end back down and carry it.

Not proud to say I moved furniture a few years in my younger days, but I did learn a few tricks from it.

Sometimes in a very tight door way removal of the inside door helps as well.

[anyfishwilldo]

You should not have a major problem if you rotate the couch, and pop the door off the hinges. You say a 31" door, but with the door in place, you lose ~1.5 inches.

[picksbigwagon]

yep was already planning to pop the door off the hinges, thanks for the help on the rotating, but we are having it delivered so I am hoping we have a very seasoned crew bringing it in the house. THe last time we had a couch delivered was on the opposite end of the spectrum.

[nofishfisherman]

i worked for 5 years at a major furniture chain and I spent all my time moving furnitre. Most of the advice here is right on the money but if you are having delievery guys bring it I am sure they will have it covered. If they are from the same chain I worked for they are usually very good. Its rare when they can't get a piece of furniture in the house. There are alot of funny angles that they will know about and use.

You should be fine I bet, atleast without looking at it for myself

[LwnmwnMan2]

Another furniture guy here, in the past, office furniture.

84" couch??? That's nothing. I could put that in your bathtub and still have room to stand up and take a shower.

The most fun I ever had, was moving a solid 20' conference table to the 8th floor of an office tower off of Penn and 100.

Had to drop the elevator one floor below, load the table on TOP of the elevator and "drive" the elevator with bottons that hand in the elevator shaft.

Then park the elevator at the 7th floor while coworker guy took the next elevator over and pried my elevator doors open for me at the 8th floor.

Usually, we current / ex moving guys will NOT be denied.

[picksbigwagon]

just looked at the bill confirmation we got in the mail this morning, the sales lady ordered us the loveseat instead of the couch.....needless to say, it is not the first time a sales person has punched in random numbers for us. Actually had a sales person at a major 3 letter name furniture store try and talk me and my wife out of buying a california king size bed (it is about 5 inches narrower and 3-4 inches longer than a standard king) she didn't think I need the extra length, until I layed down on the demonstration queen size bed and my feet were hanging over the edge.

The couch will be delivered some time, I am not moving it in that is for sure....thanks for all the help guys