General Chat

Glad the suite will soon be in it's new home Ann, hope your daughter will love it when she sees it in place? Won't the company go halves as they didn't make sure your daughter knew it was a problem size suite? Would be a nice gesture especially considering the amount your daughter is spending?

Lizx

My sofa was a 'construct it yourself' IKEA number. No problem.

For some reason, friend and I couldn't get the old sofa out (yet it must have come in), so it was sawed up! Made it easier to fit into the car, for the trip to the dump :-D

Kay, I wouldn't dare. She'd say "Mother I am 54!!" But to be honest I don't think it would have occurred to me to check if it would go through the door, we did measure that it would go in the lounge ok. Yes, We were with her when she first looked at it. :-D

Ann,,there is your solution for her christmas pressie,,,,,,,,a tape measure,,,,,next time shes buying big items she will know what size is the limit........... ;-) :-D :-D

Well, she has decided to have the window taken out and they will deliver the suite tomorrow through the window. It is costing her £400, I can see her point, the suite was way over £2000 so she feels it is worth it to her to alleviate the stress. She thinks (and I agree) that she would always be thinking she had got second best if she re-ordered. Good job she is still contract working and can afford it.

When I was working I was in a house. it was one of those where the door opens on to a passage with a door at the end into a back room and a door at right angles to that into the front room.

There was a sofa in the back room that they were going to have recovered and the upholsterer was there with his wife to do an estimate. I heard the people say that they had wanted the sofa to go in the front room but couldn't get it in there because the corner was too tight.

The upholsterer said he could soon sort that out. He and his wife picked up the sofa, went wiggle, wiggle, wiggle with it and there it was, in the front room!

Respect my man, respect!

That would involve common sense though Joy :-0

I am another who still worries about my grown up daughters......it comes with the job :-D

You would think all these shops would make sofas the size of a

STANDARD FRONT DOOR :-( :-(

Merlin, yes she has double glazing, not sure how it is affected because the window is a bow but the shop are supposed to be getting somebody to look at that possibility.

Joy, yes if they could remove the legs it would be fine but it is solidly built with non removable legs.

We had to remove the front door to get Strays old suite in
but it worked Her new one came to bits so was much easier

Ive known Neighbours remove their front windows to get them in

Anne, If her Bungalow has Double Glasing, would it not be possible to get the furniture through the windows,(Its easy to take out and put back, Might be worth exploring this. Take care, **M**. :-D

Apparently it is the front door that it won't go through, they only tried the 2 seater.

It seems that furniture these days, especially sofas, is huge - deeper and longer often with very large arms. We had 2 new ones last year and brought them through the conservatory as we don't have a hall, just a 'snicket', and it's a tight turn. I deliberately chose 'less large' ones but they're still quite big!

We have fun and games with anything to go upstairs - steep and winding stairs. When we did the bathroom a few years ago, decided to have glass panels in the shower rather than tiles. Company measured up and OH was concerned that the large panel wouldn't get up the stairs - they weren't worried...Well we ended up having to take all the balustrade spindles off the top of the stairwell to get it in.

Hope your daughter gets it sorted - it is a complete pain but seems to be quite a common problem these days

Liz :-) I am sure he would be for a joke trying to put a spoke in the works. She can afford expensive but always remarks that she doesn't now have the voice of reason telling her she can't afford it. When it is solved I will mention it.

I am not sure if it is the front door of the bungalow (1930s built) or the turn into the lounge off the hallway that it won't make. It is two settees, one 3 seater and one two. I am assuming neither will go in as they didn't deliver either. If I remember right it is quite wide across the seat but my thoughts are, not only should the salesman have mentioned a potential problem, it should also be on the suite description that wide access is required. (Oh, of course, then they probably wouldn't sell it, I seem to remember it was one of the most expensive in an expensive shop) I do remember that the salesman was very garulous about how wonderfully the furniture was made, couldn't stop him talking.

You never do stop worrying about them do you. Your poor daughter has had enough to cope with lately. I hope it gets sorted out for her.

When we moved here two years ago I had no worries. Decent width doors everywhere plus double doors into the living room and kitchen/dining room and a large hallway with lots of turning room. Added to that the removal crew knew the house as they had moved the previous occupant in and a week earlier had cleared the house for him as he was abroad.

All went well till they tried to get a king size bed up the stairs. There are 3 steps curving round at an angle before the stairs turn and go straight up. After the bed got stuck, the men got stuck and everyone had had a couple of cups of tea, the boss man said the only solution was to cut the bed in half. Then a student doing holiday work with them came up with the answer though Health and Safety would not have approved! I couldn't watch as I was sure one of the men would fall and break his neck. All I can say is that bed is never coming down again :-D

Ann you have made me think, D has a new suite ordered since we moved out, all our stuff was put in through the back door, so I will tell her to enquire if she will have the same trouble as your daughter.she has our old two seats until it comes.
I hope it all comes right for your daughter and I certainly agree with you about never stop worrying about them whatever age they are....

We have a sort of dogleg from the front of the house to the back ............. the dining room leads into a very small square hall and then there is an immediate right turn into the kitchen and through to the back. Any furniture basically has to be tipped on its end from the dining room into the hall, then turned around 180 degrees and slowly tipped over again to be got round that dog leg.

The last time we bought a settee was after our daughter got married and we turned her room at the back of the house into a study. The delivery men brought the settee into the house. It looked like the one we had ordered until they got it into that hallway, then it was too large to be moved into the next step. I was really puzzled because we had bought a smaller one knowing the problem.

One of the men looked at the label on the settee, they looked at reach other, and manoeuvred it back out of the house to their van.

Yep .............. it was a 3-seater settee not our 2 seater :-D

Two identical settees to be delivered by the same van!!

Our 2-seater was successfully moved through the dog leg :-)

We know that any furniture for the family at the back of house will have to go in or out of the window unless it is a 2 seater settee or smaller!

Hope this problem gets sorted, Ann. Maybe your daughter can laugh about it later on?

I don't know what sort of person your son in law was, in that perhaps you could joke that he was trying to put a spanner in the works because the suite was so expensive?

When I moved out of a small terraced house years ago, the removal people knocked the rad off at the bottom of the stairs witn my 5'bedbase. I had forgotten I had the window removed to get it in the room lol The removal people had to get the rad fixed for the new owner.

I hope all goes as well as possible for your daughter in this next phase of her life.

Lizx

She has to wait until Thursday when the salesman is next in to see what is happening. It was the delivery men who told her she should have been warned about needing a double door. The shop offered a refund minus a restock charge, she turned that down.

my son had to have his front window removed to get his leather sofa in