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[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of my own hilarious large furniture movements. Someone bought a love seat for the home I reside in, didn't bother measuring anything, and asked me to retrieve it from the store. A very kind gentleman was paid to bring it from the store to the outside of the house. I took one look at the love seat, one look at the door, and asked him to kindly leave because he didn't want to be any part of the process of getting it inside.

I ultimately took a circular saw to the back of the love seat and later reattached it and stapled the fabric back on.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Omigod. That's extreme.

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It had a weird stylistic hump in the center that was the major cause of the problem. I was fully aware upon a handful of measurements that there wasn't even a chance it was going to fit. My cut was only enough of the back to get it through the door. I realized upon rereading I made it sound like I removed the whole thing.

Even now, 5 years later you can't tell it was operated on unless you take a good look at the back of it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just wonder if you'll settle into it one day and it'll just come apart.

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

It definitely won't. Maybe if I somehow push on that weird upper hump while positioning myself to sit I may have an issue, but otherwise it's very much still solid.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wow! A math meme! Is this the 3d version of the unsolved moving sofa problem?

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why is it unsolved, it totally looks like you've solved it there.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The question is what is the biggest couch. That's a non optimal solution on the gif, there are bigger couches which can fit

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Damn, really? Why would that be so tricky to solve, I wonder.

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

A quick image search for "telephone shaped" furniture...

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

It's a "Friend's" meme.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You haven't been doomscrolling enough lately.

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/73184

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

It's also mentioned on the wiki page, I'm astonished it could be solved finally, lets wait for the reviews!

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this Dirk Gently's house?

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I have a reservation at Esprit de Escalaire for 3 weeks ago if you're free.

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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When moving into our house years ago I got our couch stuck in the stairs. I had to sawzall it into 3 pieces to get it out and take it to the dump

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

Long time ago, first time my wife left me alone for a week since we got together, I decided to go on a Xanax bender. I didn't remember a fucking thing. But, we had a basement with a spiral type stairway where the washer and dryer were. She came home and went to wash her clothes and yelled, "what the actually FUCK!?" there was an entire sheet of plywood wedged in that stairwell, impossibly stuck. She demanded an explanation that I simply could not provide so I played it off like I was doing a building project down there and it got stuck. I had to sawzall that thing to get it out. When we went down we discovered I had built an entire grow cabinet for weed which was entirely up and running. I was like, "surprise!"

She was surprised alright, but not as much as I was lol.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I love older homes because they were built to last.

I hate them because you can't move anything anywhere without a saw.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Older homes are not build to last. Older homes are just worth preserving. I live in the Netherlands we have a shit ton of old homes, if these homes weren’t repaired or renovated across the centuries most of them would have collapsed. Before modern build codes, like before the 20th century, it wasn’t uncommon for an old home to just collapse with the inhabitants in it.

In many Dutch cities old homes are literally sinking into the ground, but instead of demolishing them most owners put in a new foundation. If it was an ugly modern glass box it would have been razed to the ground without a second thought.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Interesting. There are a ton of homes here built (starting about 1920) that still stand. And trust me they were built to last. Minor upkeep and they are still good today, but then everything is going to require minor upkeep.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Survivors bias. You don't see the old houses that weren't built well because they're gone.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... and no 90º angle is actually 90º

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

There is a pullout bed in that couch, which makes this even more difficult because it is heavier, pops open when tipped, and will put you in the hospital.

[–] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

PIVOT!!!!

[–] anomoly_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUP!

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

PIVEHHHHHHT

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Got u fam

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why it can be easy to find a free piano. You can take it if you can take it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Why anyone pays for a piano is beyond me. If you'll take it out of someone's house they'll gladly hand it to you. The very great musician Neko Case made a piano orchestra out of several free pianos she put in her barn to record with.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It always felt like something was missing from the stairs. This wasn't it, but it was a good try.

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

...(Homeowner) Luke says he refused to sign the delivery forms after it was suggested he cut off his bannisters...

🛋️

https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/26/delivery-men-really-need-a-lesson-from-ross-to-pivot-sofa-up-staircase-18173094/

[–] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That customer sounds insufferable. Might well be the fault of the company but him going on about how much his house cost (and the sofa) makes him sound like a right tosspot.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not much of a brag, he probably doesn't have any cash for repairs.

Also they approached the staircase wrong, you put the top side down so that you can cup around obstacles.

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would guess, homeowner Luke is ok moneywise. If that couples photo on the website is his home... a brief analysis... correlation of christmas tree and miniskirt suggest an indoor temp of +72'F; an animal skin rug is under the dinning table (expensive choice); and the couple are likely childless (displayed book titled "Creatures With Cocks").

That's on a assumption it is his home. Still, how and why Mr. Luke resorted to get the delivery guy to heave-ho-ing; it comically should've never come to that.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or they could be up to their eyeballs in debt and any small expense sends them into credit card debt. That's sadly quite common...

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

I wasn't going to say house -poor....

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

I guess his wife does look out of his league, you might be right

[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Looks to me like they were trying to get it down narrow stairs into a finished basement. I've been in the same situation many a time. This is solvable, though still a pain in the ass even when you get it just right.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My grandpa got a pool table in his basement in a very similar stair condition. To this day, I have no idea how beyond the fact that he had a come along tied to a 4x4 across the basement door. We just left it down there when we sold the house.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I still have no idea how people get grand pianos into their houses.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First they buy and place the piano, THEN they build the house.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This actually happens. Had a relative that bought one of a row of townhouses being built back in the 60s. The company building the houses thought it would be a sweet incentive to include a piano with each one, so now everyones house in that row has a busted old stand up piano in the basement that's impossible to remove without some sort of demolition.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

WOW. When the app popped up your comment, I saw the first sentence and I tried to guess which of my comments it was a response to. Then I went like "no way".

No matter how hard you try to come up with some surrealist bullshit, chances are someone had thought of the same and went like "this is a great idea".

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

We have that problem with our late parents house. The grand piano was placed into a second-floor room by removing the window casing and using a crane.

We are hoping that the piano will sell with the house.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is plenty of room to rotate it over the newel.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Do a barrel roll!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 week ago

I bet the owner went back in time and opened a door to help move the sofa and then closed it, the door vanished and now the sofa is stuck in an impossible position.

[–] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Just take the feet off. It'll go.

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