#1102 – Snug
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Couches are such a pain in the neck to move around different floors of a house or apartment building. Especially by yourself. I kind of wish it was common for them to come in pieces that you could easily move around and then snap together. If they made common connectors then you could swap out pieces for different uses or upgrade just part of your furniture at a time.
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We got a new couch this summer and discovered that the door into the family room was exactly 1 inch too narrow to allow the couch to pass. We finally had to take the couch back to the front door, through the living room, dinning room and kitchen and come through the side door to the family room (which was just barely wide enough).
I say couches should be modular and standard sizes and all doors should be the same width so couch makers could accomodate them.
@ Chris’ blurb: Video game upgrades in real life? I like iit.
@ Window: Turn head to side. MISSINGNO.
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Haha I was just thinking the exact same thing. We have a Love Sac store in a nearby mall. Coincidence?
Worked one summer picking up extra money by being a ‘mover’s assistant’. One time we had to get a couch to a third story apartment up a very narrow set of switchback stairs (every 6 feet up a landing and change of direction) that you actually had to duck just to walk up. I’m still not sure how we manged it.
I had a LEGO couch for a while. It was very easy to move, and was fantastic if your back itched in that one place you can never reach pn your own.
I’ve seen very large windows and even hay-loading type doors at the end of an upper-level hallway on some larger houses and McMansions. All you need then is a crane…
I’ve also seen cantilever lifting jigs atop some tall apartment buildings – Especially the walk-up type buildings.
My mother bought a couch, and though she measured the door, she didn’t measure the 90-degree turn. We hauled that baby up the stairs, and muscled it every which way before giving up the internal route and building a block and tackle to bring the sofa in through the picture window.
I have recently carried a large wardrobe up a narrow set of stairs. Luckily, the ceiling is kind of high, but…
I squashed my thumb. It STILL hurts, and it has been a WEEK.
…I have no idea why it is here. Now it is just upstairs infront of the cupboard with towels and stuff in…
It is VERY annoying when you have a shower in the morning…
Although… I could just take all the towels out…
…hmm… decisions, decisions…
(*Not so*) UNRELATED MOMENT!:
My family have a history of laziness…
I guess that’s why we didn’t take the wardrobe APART before taking it upstairs…
…or maybe it’s one of those stupid ones that don’t come apart and go together again?
~Yukimura~
I once had an apartment mate who put an old leather sofa in our living room. She had to abandon it when she moved out because it wouldn’t fit in the elevator. Somehow they’d gotten it to fit when she moved in, but they didn’t remember how. 2 years later I sold it, but I had to return the money when the buyer couldn’t get it in the elevator either. I abandoned it when I moved out, and didn’t even bother trying to move it. The apartment manager probably had to take a chain saw to it to get it out of the unit.
Modular furniture FTW. This is why I like my second-hand Ikea couch. It’s 7 feet by 9 feet (L-shaped), but I can pull it all apart to get it through normal doorways and narrow passageways. I’ve moved houses with it 4 times so far, so we’ve had a bit of practice doing so.
If you’re not careful, you’ll get your sofa stuck on the stairwell in a position that is physically impossible to get it out of, and was also, by all means, physically impossible to get it into.
they make couches like that actually.we used to have one.each seat was separate and could function as its own cushy chair,or table in the case of the corner part.it was easy to move and clean…
That remembers me about a friend of mine who had a flat at the second floor. He bought a new sofa and asked his friends to help him carrying it up. We get stuck in the staircase at the first turn of the stairs. OK guys, we try to pull it up from the garden to the balcony of the flat. But now chance, it was to heavy. Fortunately all that happens on the countryside. One of the helpers was the local forest ranger who goes to his workshop and came back with a hoist!
I had a customer who had a wall removed to deliver one of those 80″ projection TVs. They were lucky that it was an RCA as I could just take the guts in to fix them then bring that back. It was lightning damage but RCA paid to have it fixed.
Hah. As it so happens, I moved into my new third floor apartment on the day this comic was posted, and had to rig up a block and tackle on the roof to hoist the couch up and in through the window. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of having a large piece of furniture suspended directly over your head.
And to think, today there is now the exact type of furniture chris was talking about. Thank you love sac for making furniture easier.