I just experienced TRUE hell

[newsguyatl]

i spent THREE hours getting a box spring and mattress up this spiral staircase.



i scratched the new walls, i lost my temper, i relocated a few discs in my back, and i tore my mattress to hell.

i got creative, and you'd never believe how i finally got them up there -- so i won't bother to explain.

i learned two very important lessons though -- never move somewhere with a spiral staircase -- and next time, hire a moving company.

i've got the huge antique sleigh bed to get up there tomorrow...

perhaps i'll call a friend -- or just burn the bed.

[tjdee]

1. How DID you do it?

I hate getting things upstairs, makes you never want to move one thing ever again in your life.

A spiral staircase must have been awful, so little space to move.

[newsguyatl]

4. a combination of

my new couch, a plastic chair, a swift climb and some real desperate creativity.

oh, and i didn't mention that this new place has no elevator, and i'm on the 2nd floor --

lesson #3 learned -- never move somewhere without an elevator

[blue neen]

2. Actually, it would be very interesting to hear how you finally

got them up there. Do tell!

[LiberalVoice]

3. Why didn't you just pull it up the wall?

or did you?

[newsguyatl]

6. no, but if i had someone here today

that's probably what i would have attempted... but it's up pretty frickin high, so i don't even know if that would have worked...

i don't even want to imagine how they got the tub up there.

[shesemsmom]

5. GADS

call a couple of friends and get some rope and see it you can hoist that baby up there.

[Redstone]

7. Never heard of a block and tackle, have you,

especially with that nice open balcony right there?

Redstone

[newsguyatl]

8. obviously not

:-)

[fluffernutter]

9. bitchin loft though.

i bet it sucked getting it up there GL with the sleigh bed tomorrow

[newsguyatl]

14. thanks!

[demnan]

10. You have too much fucking room!

Why not give some money to charity.

All you need is a flat and you didn't get that so stop bitchin', will you?

[newsguyatl]

15. i gave away a SHIT load of

stuff to charity before i moved, does that count?

[mongo]

11. Rent or borrow a ladder

and get some rope. Use the ladder (and a friend) to guide the pieces of the bed and haul it to the top with the rope.

Good luck.

I live in a homemade house and there is a spot on the stairs with a 5' head clearance - but the staircase is open on the side. Had to practically fold our queen sized mattress in half to get it up the stairs. Good thing we don't own a box spring.

[blue neen]

12. That sounds like a pretty good suggestion, mongo.

I'm going to file that away for future reference. :)

[CanuckAmok]

13. comrade!

I did the same thin in a loft in December by myself. Not a spiral staircase, but one with a stupid right-angle in the middle, and with a king-size mattress. fell asleep on it as soon as it was in the bed frame.
scratched up the walls and everything.

But you're in now, so fuck them all.

[newsguyatl]

16. lol

yeh, about halfway thru, i had the mattress in the kitchen floor and i was like, "ok, so maybe i can just sleep in the kitchen and make THAT my bedroom?"


lol

my back is already KILLING me

[SoCalDem]

17. Two words.... hoist & pulley

:)

We once helped a friend move a HEAVY sofabed up a staircase almost as bad...

You need a massage and a hot bath :)

[valis]

18. Looks like Boston!

[Bok_Tukalo]

19. Did your solution involve rope and a pulley?

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