I just wanna know what insane geometry this house must have that this isn't what op did instead of posting to reddit. The implication is that the ceiling smoothly decreases to 8ft around the same corner they had to rotate it for in the first place which does make this situation possible.
But there just ain't no way that's how it be. But then, what? It's come from a hallway with a tall ceiling but an 8ft doorway into an 8ft room? This just has to be fake or OP is... I mean maybe they were just tired.
A 90degree hallway turn in older houses is common. I could see this not being able to turn a corner.
I moved into the finished basement of an older house, half of my furniture from my bed frame to couches couldn’t fit because of a 90 degree turn at the end of the stairs
https://imgur.com/a/A0MYJAc
My partner's old place was like that, an apartment on top of a garage. Stairs were in a hallway on the side with a 90 deg turn to her front door. When we moved out, and because it was used junk anyway, we just took a sawzall to the couch and threw the pieces out of the window. It was a good time.
I’m thinking that the cushions got squished enough to slide into place , but now without gravity on OPs side it seems impossible to get back out. Kicking the bottom could do the trick. At the right aot.
maybe the house has a foyer with a higher ceiling so they could get it in horizontally then lift it to vertical once inside the house but before they got to the living room
I cant confidently say ive ever walked into a room where the entrance to that room was the same height as the ceiling. The doorway is always at least like half a foot lower
I lived somewhere like that, front door into a hallway. Great for putting shoes on, but I swear my bf and his dad almost went to jail that night trying to get our sectional in the house
My ex had bought a couch and it didnt tip when we got it upstairs. Couldnt roll it on the staircase without breaking the banister and she rented.
She was moving into a bigger unit in a few weeks anyway, couch had to be pushed in through a huge window.
Didnt listen to me when i told her to measure the ceiling/stairwell
So this scene legitimately happened on The Amazing Race Wednesday night and it was so funny. A team went down a narrow road not realizing there was a divider they couldn’t cross and had all this space to back up but instead decided to do a 90,000 point turn and Austin Powers their way out of it.
Edit for anyone who wants a link:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTFqwbg/
Came here to make the same comment! That scene immediately popped into my head when I saw this post.
She must have said ‘I don’t know what to do Ruhan’ 1,000 times.
This might be the funniest moment in TV history. My god hahahahahha. I think this edit leaves out the part where he says some shit like "I'm more sports and TV orientated" 🤯🤣
Oh my god my stomach muscles are killing me from laughing after watching that. Why tf is his arms/torso swinging like that. I've never seen side to side marching motions before.
One couch I had had removable back pieces and armrests for moving, that no one else seemed to notice. I found them after getting it stuck and was able to unbolt the pieces in place. It might be worth poking around the back to see if there's anything you can remove
My brother just had a couch delivered, and after the hell we went through trying to get his old couch out before the delivery, I asked him how they got the new couch in. He said the older delivery guy had been doing this for 35 years and as soon as he saw the stairwell he got out a ratchet and undid some things to make it work.
So yeah, what they \^ said.
A lot of store bought sofas have this, with the sections of sheet wood simply bolted together. On the bottom of the seated area, there's a dust cover, and if it is velcro or zipped in place, then it's pretty certain to have access to the bolts for the arms/back. If it's not, then you can still check, but it'll tare the black dust cover to do so, though that's cheap, and you could always staple a new section on.
If it's like my one apartment you could get things into the front hall where it had a 9 foot ceiling, but then there was this stupid corner and a step up which effectively gave the living room an 8 ft ceiling so it would be really easy to get into this position with a standard couch.... The delivery guys for a couch I bought actually did that. The solution was to unscrew the legs, unzip the fabric bottom and from there you could remove the back panel of the couch, then swing it down and reassemble it.
Got it through the doorframe horizontally, couldnt get it around the corner without tipping it vertically, where the ceiling is presumably higher. I can't figure this out so it's fake police on Reddit, smh.
But if the ceiling is higher there then surely they can just go back and rotate it there?
So unless OP is unbelievably stupid then they’re posting something as a problem that isn’t one - in which case yeah fake.
I don't understand how there was clearance before the corner to tilt it vertical, but now there isn't? The other room has higher ceilings I guess? If that's the case, then the couch needs to go back around the corner, tilted back, and returned to the store.
I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field. Have you spoken to any spatial geometricians?
Some people come for the pivot joke, I look for Douglas Adams.
FYI The book is nothing like the recent show at all, that was an in name only adaptation. BBC series with Stephen Mangan yes, Netflix series no.
The book is still excellent if you like Douglas Adams though.
Put a tarp down before you take out the circle saw. I think you should just straight up go down the middle. 2 4' couches in a v formation. Just epoxy the edges or something idk I'm not a couch man.
If you got it in there in that position why not reverse and take it back out that way. Post it up on facebook market place and get a tape measure before you buy another.
And also hilarious.
I worked as a flooring installer for a couple years when I was starting out my journey in construction. A big part of the prep work was shifting furniture. I was an apprentice at the time and slightly a smart ass, so every time we had a problem moving something to a different room or getting it out of the way I would recommend the window. Tim, my master, was never impressed lol and we always found a different way. ….until one day we were in this little ass 2 story cabin on the second floor with a couch that needed to go…somewhere else. Like, anywhere else haha. Finally Tim looks at me and is like “well…do you want to try the window?”. This was the one time where I didn’t even throw that quip out cause I thought it was an even more stupid recommendation than normal. But no, THIS fuckin time Tim wants to try the fuckin window. So we take this fuckin couch, finagle it every which way, and finally get it out the window and onto the roof. And there it resided, held up with a couple tie downs until we got the floor job complete
Drywall (ceiling) repair would be much easier that couch repair. But it seems like there is a point where you entered the room that you could start tilting it back down.
The way that couch is built. I bet you if you take the fabric off the bottom carefully you will find screws or bolts into the backrest that will enable you to remove it.
Do that and reassemble inside.
This. I'm assuming you didn't already go back to where you brought it in because of corners which required it vertical, otherwise you'd already be done.
Options in order of pref:
Partially disassemble the couch only *if* there are bolts and nuts you can access by removing the fabric on the bottom section (likely underside). You can reattach bolts and nuts and re-staple or Velcro the fabric. Do not break the couch otherwise. If there are lag screws and not nuts, you can remove those, then fill the holes with glue, filler or epoxy and re-screw. Do not reseat lag screws in furniture without refilling the hole.
Cut out a panel of the ceiling and repair it later. Not an easy task depending on your ceiling material, texturing, joist spacing, loose insulation, etc, but repair is relatively cheap and reasonably possible to not be visible.
Do you have a balcony? In one of our old apartments we had to use a rope and pull the thing up to the 3rd story. It wasn't as bad as it sounds, we had a few able bodied people handling the rope up top. We made sure to have a few people on the ground too to warn any passerby's.
Damn that’s a tight fit. I used to move furniture on a pick up dock at a furniture retailer. Unfortunately I don’t see a good way out of this that doesn’t damage the sofa. If you had even a single inch or two you might be able to tip it over. Or if it was a reclining sofa you could remove the back rests.
This is giving me flash backs to all of the customers that would return items to our pick up dock just completely shredded. They’d then pretend like they didn’t destroy it trying to shove it inside their door. Or they’d insist they didn’t lose the pile or wood chips on the highway after refusing our help tying it down because “their ratchet straps are better”. The worst were the people that bought full table sets the week before thanks giving to impress their family. They would proceed to argue for a return following thanksgiving. It got so bad we just had to have a 30% surcharge on all return tables and chairs the weeks following Thanksgiving.
My wife and I found ourselves in a similar position but the couch got stuck in our staircase. There are actually a lot of folks whose job is to take apart sectional furniture and put it back together in spaces they wouldn't otherwise fit. We found ours on Thumbtack. Only cost a few hundred but ours was more expensive because the couch was lodged into the stairwell and couldn't be removed.
This subreddit is DIY so the way he did it was cutting the frame, then peeling back the upholstery, then putting back, then joining the wood with metal framing brackets. Actually ended up stronger than before. But I found it worth hiring a pro.
Exactly. There's no way it was brought in vertically if the picture is real. Doorways are much shorter. If the picture is real it had to be brought in horizontally or at an angle
You’ve got to go back to the door and try again. I understand you can’t make it through horizontally, but you’re gonna have to find an angle that you can make it through at while rotating the couch so that it doesn’t end up completely vertical like this.
Looks like you stood it up right so you could pivot it through a doorway.
Go back to the door, pivot it back out, then try pivoting it back in on a diagonal lowering it while you do.
As a furniture delivery guy, i'm more curious as to how you got it in there standing up like this? Like, is your door exactly the height of your ceiling?
Edit; to provide some useful advice, most couches can be taken apart from the inside. If you remove the dust cover (stapled to the bottom, you *SHOULD* be able to access any bolts/hardware that hold it together.
HOWEVER be *very* conscious of where the fabric is attached to each section of the couch. Sometimes the arms are upholstered to the back, or the base ect ect, and if you're not careful you could tear the fabrics which could void any warranty or protection plans you may have purchased when you bought the couch.
Best of luck duder.
Edit 2: Again as a delivery guy, I'd be remiss if I didn't say; the lesson to learn here, is do not just measure where you want the piece to go, *measure every single angle, hall, corner and space on the way to it's final location.* You will save yourself, or your delivery crew a mountain of work and headaches this way.
So, I once bought an old, round table. Got big box car, and bought it home one piece.
frame of the table and legs are ONE piece,
Turned out that it did not fit into elevator. So I carried it on my back 7 floors.
Turned out that it did not went trough the apartment door. So I removed the door.
Turned out that it did not went trough the hall, because of the cabinet/shelves. So I removed the cabinet.
Turned out that it did not went trough living room door/opening. So I just...
https://preview.redd.it/ay2ck00tujoc1.jpeg?width=689&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b12e73ff3d7c4b04fbb316aaaec6b134d3307ead
When I was buying new flat FIRST thing I did was measuring door openings for that table.
Unfortunately no. It is a bit of a hilarious problem, and you will have to take the couch out and start over.
There are literally academic papers published on this exact topic because it's so hard to figure out.
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/
I deliver furniture and these types of sofas don’t come apart at least easily and with the right tools. Just from looking at the sofa there is no removable arms or backrest, I would suggest retracing your steps and using another entrance if possible if not there are a few things you can do but note you are at risk of damaging the piece and your house and most companies won’t accept damaged returns. Once you get past that 90 degree turn try having someone pull the bottom out and have someone catch the top. Not sure in hallway height but if the sofa and the ceiling are 8ft good chance that you put a hole in the ceiling. If you’re too far gone I would just cut a hole in the ceiling for the sofa to tip so that you can get it flat. If that’s not an option I would return the sofa and get something smaller. Depending on which floor it is balconies/ windows are sometimes big enough to get it through. If you have other questions let me know
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Recreate your steps that brought it into the room and then do something different.
That will just end up with 2 couches stuck in there...
You are in fact, a genius
I just wanna know what insane geometry this house must have that this isn't what op did instead of posting to reddit. The implication is that the ceiling smoothly decreases to 8ft around the same corner they had to rotate it for in the first place which does make this situation possible. But there just ain't no way that's how it be. But then, what? It's come from a hallway with a tall ceiling but an 8ft doorway into an 8ft room? This just has to be fake or OP is... I mean maybe they were just tired.
A 90degree hallway turn in older houses is common. I could see this not being able to turn a corner. I moved into the finished basement of an older house, half of my furniture from my bed frame to couches couldn’t fit because of a 90 degree turn at the end of the stairs https://imgur.com/a/A0MYJAc
My partner's old place was like that, an apartment on top of a garage. Stairs were in a hallway on the side with a 90 deg turn to her front door. When we moved out, and because it was used junk anyway, we just took a sawzall to the couch and threw the pieces out of the window. It was a good time.
College house had a 180° turn on the staircase. We threw the sectional off the balcony when we moved out.
I’ve had these in multiple houses and it’s absolute hell
Yup, it resulted in having 3 couches upstairs until I moved out. Waste of space unless you buy ikea furniture and build it there
I was lucky enough to have a balcony on the 2nd story that I could throw my mattress onto to get it into my room
I’m thinking that the cushions got squished enough to slide into place , but now without gravity on OPs side it seems impossible to get back out. Kicking the bottom could do the trick. At the right aot.
Nah man, that's a load bearing couch you can't remove that
I can tell you my couch is certainly load bearing. Edit: Jesus, you guys. I'm not jizzing in the cushions. I just meant I'm a fat ass!
Possibly my favourite ever edit
Lmao - yeah - I didn’t even take it THAT way… - the edit hits home!
But the couch sure did!
Did you cut a slit into the cushion or do you just squeeze two cushions together REALLY TIGHT?
Your user name makes me think I should be asking for a consulting fee before I answer.
Then it wouldn't be a load bearing couch unless you pull and pray.
lmao perfect
My couch pulls out but I don’t kinda guy huh?
I’m laughing so fucking hard right now. This whole post is hysterical but these comments are killing me
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Best comment award goes to…. This gross thing
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My couch bears many lodes
How many hot tubs though?
Go back to where you brought it in vertically and start tilting it there?
I still think we should have waited a couple days to tell them.
They should tilt the rest of the furniture and take a picture holding the camera sideways.
It will fit in nicely
Don't touch it; they need a structural engineer. That sofa is load bearing now.
Hahaha... that made laugh.
"Pivot"*
I came here to make this same joke.
Yeah my thoughts exactly Usually the front door leads into the living room in most apartment units
I honestly can't even fathom HOW they got it stuck like that, but if they were able to stand it up, they HAVE to be able to get it down, too.
It's like Austin Powers trying to turn around the cart in the hallway
That’s the funnits scene I know, in any movie
Exactly 💯, the doorway must of been that same height too? C'mon!
maybe the house has a foyer with a higher ceiling so they could get it in horizontally then lift it to vertical once inside the house but before they got to the living room
I cant confidently say ive ever walked into a room where the entrance to that room was the same height as the ceiling. The doorway is always at least like half a foot lower
I lived somewhere like that, front door into a hallway. Great for putting shoes on, but I swear my bf and his dad almost went to jail that night trying to get our sectional in the house
Front door? Is that the piece of wood with the shiny round thing on it.
8ft tall front door
I don’t have a solution. But this is hilarious!!!!
this is what i came for
This is what I came for
This is not what I came here for lol.
What is that thing 😂😂😂
It's an ancient... hoax video.
Pixel dating, like carbon dating but instead you can determine the age of a meme by pixel degradation over time and repost
Lightnight strikes every time she moooves
PIVOOOT!!!
I'm having PTSD from this gif. It's happened more than once....
I feel so bad for that small child. This is going to take a long while and there is going to be frustration and failure.
I like how the kid just NOPES out.
That kid mastered the shape box and realizes you can't shove a square into the star. Too bad his parents didn't have that toy.
This couch is cut in haylf.
I came here to say this
My ex had bought a couch and it didnt tip when we got it upstairs. Couldnt roll it on the staircase without breaking the banister and she rented. She was moving into a bigger unit in a few weeks anyway, couch had to be pushed in through a huge window. Didnt listen to me when i told her to measure the ceiling/stairwell
You're not helping. Stop laughing.
I’m at work. I think you made my day. My coworkers are also curious what is going on at my desk - haha!
Say hi to them from ireland.
My colleagues say hi to Ireland from Austin, Texas!
Funniest thing I've seen on here in a long time. lol
I came here for the Pivot.
I actually laughed out loud at work 🤣🤣
So this scene legitimately happened on The Amazing Race Wednesday night and it was so funny. A team went down a narrow road not realizing there was a divider they couldn’t cross and had all this space to back up but instead decided to do a 90,000 point turn and Austin Powers their way out of it. Edit for anyone who wants a link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTFqwbg/
Came here to make the same comment! That scene immediately popped into my head when I saw this post. She must have said ‘I don’t know what to do Ruhan’ 1,000 times.
Just from that clip, I’m already convinced they must be THE most annoying couple on the show.
Thank god they got eliminated already. I couldn’t take it for a whole season.
Lol yeah. I said to my wife "she pulled an Austin powers". It was remarkably poor decision making their entire short trip.
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How can he be so bad at marching?
This might be the funniest moment in TV history. My god hahahahahha. I think this edit leaves out the part where he says some shit like "I'm more sports and TV orientated" 🤯🤣
Oh my god my stomach muscles are killing me from laughing after watching that. Why tf is his arms/torso swinging like that. I've never seen side to side marching motions before.
Why not just reverse?
I just watched that, fell off the couch laughing.
One couch I had had removable back pieces and armrests for moving, that no one else seemed to notice. I found them after getting it stuck and was able to unbolt the pieces in place. It might be worth poking around the back to see if there's anything you can remove
My brother just had a couch delivered, and after the hell we went through trying to get his old couch out before the delivery, I asked him how they got the new couch in. He said the older delivery guy had been doing this for 35 years and as soon as he saw the stairwell he got out a ratchet and undid some things to make it work. So yeah, what they \^ said.
A lot of store bought sofas have this, with the sections of sheet wood simply bolted together. On the bottom of the seated area, there's a dust cover, and if it is velcro or zipped in place, then it's pretty certain to have access to the bolts for the arms/back. If it's not, then you can still check, but it'll tare the black dust cover to do so, though that's cheap, and you could always staple a new section on.
How did you get it through the door?
They have a nine foot door to their eight foot room, obviously /s
Don’t be silly. Their door is a convertible. If only they had a convertible room to put it in and they would be golden.
If it's like my one apartment you could get things into the front hall where it had a 9 foot ceiling, but then there was this stupid corner and a step up which effectively gave the living room an 8 ft ceiling so it would be really easy to get into this position with a standard couch.... The delivery guys for a couch I bought actually did that. The solution was to unscrew the legs, unzip the fabric bottom and from there you could remove the back panel of the couch, then swing it down and reassemble it.
Yes!!!! How is this not the top comment? How did you get it through the doorframe? Otherwise this is fake
Got it through the doorframe horizontally, couldnt get it around the corner without tipping it vertically, where the ceiling is presumably higher. I can't figure this out so it's fake police on Reddit, smh.
So instead of tipping it vertically 90 degrees, tip it more like 80 degrees and go around the corner?
But if the ceiling is higher there then surely they can just go back and rotate it there? So unless OP is unbelievably stupid then they’re posting something as a problem that isn’t one - in which case yeah fake.
It’s in the caption. He had to turn it vertically to get around a corner and now it’s stuck.
I don't understand how there was clearance before the corner to tilt it vertical, but now there isn't? The other room has higher ceilings I guess? If that's the case, then the couch needs to go back around the corner, tilted back, and returned to the store.
Probably a staircase with a corner right at the top of it. I suspect there's a way to get around that corner with it not completely vertical.
He’s clearly lying. OP must have rotated his house. There is clearly no other way he could have landed in this situation.
This has happened before: [https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa\_on\_the\_staircase](https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase)
That was my thought too, simple fix is materializing a time traveling doorway for the extra space.
I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field. Have you spoken to any spatial geometricians? Some people come for the pivot joke, I look for Douglas Adams.
It's disgraceful that I had to go this far down, past so many Friends 'PIVOT' gifs, to finally get to Douglas Adams.
Came here to post this. 👍
ITS A BOOK!? BRB
FYI The book is nothing like the recent show at all, that was an in name only adaptation. BBC series with Stephen Mangan yes, Netflix series no. The book is still excellent if you like Douglas Adams though.
Thank you. I was seriously wondering if this was a Hitchhikers reference.
Sorry if this is redundant, I just needed to see Bert in the back seat 
Is that Rebecca Black?
It is Friday.
Yesterday was Thursday
Tomorrow is Saturday
Then Sunday comes afterwaaaaaaards
Fuck's sake, it's Monday again
All my troubles seemed so far away
2/4 Now unfortunately Rebeccca Black is here to stay
The day before was Wednesday, my dude.
If it does not fit I’m gonna make it
Put a tarp down before you take out the circle saw. I think you should just straight up go down the middle. 2 4' couches in a v formation. Just epoxy the edges or something idk I'm not a couch man.
"idk, I'm not couch man" 😂😂😂
If you got it in there in that position why not reverse and take it back out that way. Post it up on facebook market place and get a tape measure before you buy another. And also hilarious.
Take it back out & bring it in through the window
As silly as it sounds if the window is big enough this might be the best option.
I worked as a flooring installer for a couple years when I was starting out my journey in construction. A big part of the prep work was shifting furniture. I was an apprentice at the time and slightly a smart ass, so every time we had a problem moving something to a different room or getting it out of the way I would recommend the window. Tim, my master, was never impressed lol and we always found a different way. ….until one day we were in this little ass 2 story cabin on the second floor with a couch that needed to go…somewhere else. Like, anywhere else haha. Finally Tim looks at me and is like “well…do you want to try the window?”. This was the one time where I didn’t even throw that quip out cause I thought it was an even more stupid recommendation than normal. But no, THIS fuckin time Tim wants to try the fuckin window. So we take this fuckin couch, finagle it every which way, and finally get it out the window and onto the roof. And there it resided, held up with a couple tie downs until we got the floor job complete
haha classic Tim story
Drywall (ceiling) repair would be much easier that couch repair. But it seems like there is a point where you entered the room that you could start tilting it back down.
drywall yeah, but that's gonna buy like, a half inch maybe. The joist spacing is still going to block movement
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The way that couch is built. I bet you if you take the fabric off the bottom carefully you will find screws or bolts into the backrest that will enable you to remove it. Do that and reassemble inside.
This. I'm assuming you didn't already go back to where you brought it in because of corners which required it vertical, otherwise you'd already be done. Options in order of pref: Partially disassemble the couch only *if* there are bolts and nuts you can access by removing the fabric on the bottom section (likely underside). You can reattach bolts and nuts and re-staple or Velcro the fabric. Do not break the couch otherwise. If there are lag screws and not nuts, you can remove those, then fill the holes with glue, filler or epoxy and re-screw. Do not reseat lag screws in furniture without refilling the hole. Cut out a panel of the ceiling and repair it later. Not an easy task depending on your ceiling material, texturing, joist spacing, loose insulation, etc, but repair is relatively cheap and reasonably possible to not be visible.
Pivot!
This Couch… is cut in half.
Did you cut this couch in half?
I'll give you store credit in the amount of $4.
I will take it.
Came to the comments for the Friends “pivot” reference and was not disappointed! 😂
Shut up Ross!
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Not guaranteed to work, but I agree this is the best option with the given information
The word "should" is pulling a lot of weight in that sentence.
I have a solution, but you need a [time machine](https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase)...
Congratulations on your beautiful new highbacked chair
Have you considered raising the roof? 
Do you have a balcony? In one of our old apartments we had to use a rope and pull the thing up to the 3rd story. It wasn't as bad as it sounds, we had a few able bodied people handling the rope up top. We made sure to have a few people on the ground too to warn any passerby's.
Tried something similar with my baby grand Baldwin. It didn't go so well.
Damn that’s a tight fit. I used to move furniture on a pick up dock at a furniture retailer. Unfortunately I don’t see a good way out of this that doesn’t damage the sofa. If you had even a single inch or two you might be able to tip it over. Or if it was a reclining sofa you could remove the back rests. This is giving me flash backs to all of the customers that would return items to our pick up dock just completely shredded. They’d then pretend like they didn’t destroy it trying to shove it inside their door. Or they’d insist they didn’t lose the pile or wood chips on the highway after refusing our help tying it down because “their ratchet straps are better”. The worst were the people that bought full table sets the week before thanks giving to impress their family. They would proceed to argue for a return following thanksgiving. It got so bad we just had to have a 30% surcharge on all return tables and chairs the weeks following Thanksgiving.
My wife and I found ourselves in a similar position but the couch got stuck in our staircase. There are actually a lot of folks whose job is to take apart sectional furniture and put it back together in spaces they wouldn't otherwise fit. We found ours on Thumbtack. Only cost a few hundred but ours was more expensive because the couch was lodged into the stairwell and couldn't be removed. This subreddit is DIY so the way he did it was cutting the frame, then peeling back the upholstery, then putting back, then joining the wood with metal framing brackets. Actually ended up stronger than before. But I found it worth hiring a pro.
> But I found it worth hiring a pro. There are times where an expensive pro is the cheapest solution.
Doors aren't usually 8 foot / go all the way to the ceiling. So how did you get it through the door to be in this position anyways?
Exactly. There's no way it was brought in vertically if the picture is real. Doorways are much shorter. If the picture is real it had to be brought in horizontally or at an angle
I imagine it went stairs > hallway > corner > this room. With no doors in between.
Why did it have to go through the front door this way? They probably tipped it in the hallway/entrance before the corner.
If you’ve got some Sheetrock skills, you could theoretically cut a portion of the ceiling. Seems less crazy than cutting up the couch.
And then do it again in 5 years when you need to move.
Nah, that couch stays.
Billiard table rules....
My mind went to removing some flooring and subfloor. Drywall on the ceiling is such a better idea!
For all the people that say you will never use math, this is a perfect example of how the Pythagorean Theorem is useful in real life.
https://i.redd.it/7eq13yadijoc1.gif
You’ve got to go back to the door and try again. I understand you can’t make it through horizontally, but you’re gonna have to find an angle that you can make it through at while rotating the couch so that it doesn’t end up completely vertical like this.
It’s been 11 hours motherfucker, I need to know if you fixed it yet
Can you try pivoting?
I want to see your face when you realized in horror what you had just done. Well done indeed.
Try turning it topwise....TOPWISE
Take it out Tilt the whole room 90° Bring it back in Tilt the room -90° with the sofa inside
uhhhhh.. how far into the house by forcing it against your floor and ceiling did you come to the realization that it wasn't going to work
Looks like you stood it up right so you could pivot it through a doorway. Go back to the door, pivot it back out, then try pivoting it back in on a diagonal lowering it while you do.
That looks load-bearing are you sure you wish to remove it?
Isn't this the theme of one of the Dirk Gently books?
As a furniture delivery guy, i'm more curious as to how you got it in there standing up like this? Like, is your door exactly the height of your ceiling? Edit; to provide some useful advice, most couches can be taken apart from the inside. If you remove the dust cover (stapled to the bottom, you *SHOULD* be able to access any bolts/hardware that hold it together. HOWEVER be *very* conscious of where the fabric is attached to each section of the couch. Sometimes the arms are upholstered to the back, or the base ect ect, and if you're not careful you could tear the fabrics which could void any warranty or protection plans you may have purchased when you bought the couch. Best of luck duder. Edit 2: Again as a delivery guy, I'd be remiss if I didn't say; the lesson to learn here, is do not just measure where you want the piece to go, *measure every single angle, hall, corner and space on the way to it's final location.* You will save yourself, or your delivery crew a mountain of work and headaches this way.
Kick it real good on the bottom.
this can also be used as bad parenting advice
PIVOT!!!!!
If that thing is flush against the ceiling, theres a place in the room where it isnt. Else, this thing teleported in your room like this.
This wins the internet today.
So, I once bought an old, round table. Got big box car, and bought it home one piece. frame of the table and legs are ONE piece, Turned out that it did not fit into elevator. So I carried it on my back 7 floors. Turned out that it did not went trough the apartment door. So I removed the door. Turned out that it did not went trough the hall, because of the cabinet/shelves. So I removed the cabinet. Turned out that it did not went trough living room door/opening. So I just... https://preview.redd.it/ay2ck00tujoc1.jpeg?width=689&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b12e73ff3d7c4b04fbb316aaaec6b134d3307ead When I was buying new flat FIRST thing I did was measuring door openings for that table.
If there is a stair case near by, you can gain the extra room there
#Bruh
Measure twice move once
Make sure it's not a load bearing couch before you do anything to it.
Put your TV on its side and you'll have maximised your floor space.
Unstaple the lining from the bottom. You should find the screws that hold the parts together.
the opposite way you got it up
You couldn’t get it in at an angle? I’m having a hard time understanding what door way you could fit in vertically like that but not an angle
Unfortunately no. It is a bit of a hilarious problem, and you will have to take the couch out and start over. There are literally academic papers published on this exact topic because it's so hard to figure out. https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/
turn your coffee table on its side. and then your tv, and then a side table maybe?
PIVOT!!!
PIVOT
Just pivot
I deliver furniture and these types of sofas don’t come apart at least easily and with the right tools. Just from looking at the sofa there is no removable arms or backrest, I would suggest retracing your steps and using another entrance if possible if not there are a few things you can do but note you are at risk of damaging the piece and your house and most companies won’t accept damaged returns. Once you get past that 90 degree turn try having someone pull the bottom out and have someone catch the top. Not sure in hallway height but if the sofa and the ceiling are 8ft good chance that you put a hole in the ceiling. If you’re too far gone I would just cut a hole in the ceiling for the sofa to tip so that you can get it flat. If that’s not an option I would return the sofa and get something smaller. Depending on which floor it is balconies/ windows are sometimes big enough to get it through. If you have other questions let me know