You have looked after new sofa for a long time, at last have bought it, have already brought it, it stands near your entrance, and business it was necessary for small – to lift it to you to the apartment. How to make it in the optimum way?
Instruction
1. At first sight can seem that to lift sofa to the apartment – business absolutely simple, it should not cause special difficulties. In fact, it is the truth, but it only if you were lucky to have spacious flights of stairs and the service lift in the stairwell. In this situation just find friends who will help you to inform of sofa the elevator, and then from the elevator to the apartment. Quite another matter, if elevators in the house are absent at all, and you live not on the first floor.
2. And what if the friends ready to help you were not, and the sofa actually refuses to pass in entrance? In this case in advance think over how you will lift it on ladder, and then and to the apartment. Just measure width of sofa and width of flights of stairs in the stairwell. Estimate whether there will pass the sofa on the dimensions on entrance and flight of stairs.
3. Of course, many modern furniture stores promise to deliver you the sorted sofa as soon as possible. Assembly, most likely, will also be carried out by specialists of shop. But what if the sofa to you was delivered in assembled form? Well not to sort it independently! In this case just prepare money for raising of sofa, this service can be ordered in the firms specializing in raising of cargoes.
4. These firms in case of impossibility of transportation of sofa by normal way (ladder or the elevator) wrap it in special felt fabric and layer of thick polyethylene, use rope sheaves and lift furniture on the wall through window. You can choose way which suits you: use of the winch mechanism installed on roof, the crane or use of industrial mountaineering.
5. By the way, the last method is most often applied to raising of sofas to apartments. It and is clear, is normal to lift sofa to the apartment, the special equipment, two, and even three workers is required that, naturally, causes more problems and expenses.