Hi, just bought a house and I can't get the fucking bed I just bought upstairs. I've found that there is a step I need to remove... if that's possible? What's the best way to do it without damaging it completely? I only have a hammer. Girlfriend gets home in 3 hours and I need it done before then. More pics to follow...
The offending step in question
Step 1: Take hammer
Step 2: Spread your buttcheeks
Step 3: Insert hammer in butt
Step 4: Using butt hammer, place several holes in the drywall to get under the step
Step 5: Remove step
Why not just cut the bed in half and reassemble it upstairs?
All tangential knowledge. I did flooring and had a guy that did stairs exclusively.
Treads look solid, but the picture is shit. As long as you can't see horizontal lines like the stair was assembled from from flooring and nosing, should be one peice.
Can you see any capping at the edges? Sometimes that side skirt sits on top of the treads and makes them a nightmare to remove. If you see gaps, you should be good.
Do the stairs squeak? We also glued our treads and just used nails to hold while it dries - less movement and squeak that way. More squeaks means its likely just nailed. You might also see little puttied dots that line up with stringers.
If all that, should be easy enough to dislodge in one peice. Put it back on with some Bostik and use finish nails in where necessary.
If anything looks priced together or under the skirt or more glued than nailed, don't fuck with it.
It's a duvan and the bed base itself is already I. Two pieces. It looks like the step does go under the skirt and there's no squeak so think I will leave the step alone...
Is it worth me trying to attempt to take out this pillar/ window? Will definitely go then I reckon. Don't mind too much about wrecking that area at this point, will be doing up the whole house eventually
It's a double aswell, not like I'm trying to be a dick and get a king-size up there. Fucking shite house design.
Look at the fucking state of it. Looks so close but yet no where near.
>>1013747
Tilt up the far end?
Here it's stuck on the wallfar end wall, the step I originally wanted to remove, the wall on the right and the roof>>1013748
>>1013753
It'd be easier just to bring it in a second story balcony or window.
>>1013772
May try this tomorrow. My other options are just man up and ruin that step, or try and take staples out of the fabric covering the base, see if I can take it apart, take it upstairs, reassemble and buy a staple gun. Girlfriends home soon so gonna go to the pub and discuss with mates before she starts kicking off. If the thread is still up tomorrow I will let you know how I get on... Thanks all.
>>1013724
Kek your problem reminds me of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
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>>1013798
>that gif
What the fuck kinda couch is shaped like that?
>>1013798
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
that's cute. Douglas Adams referenced this in one of the Dirk Gently books.
As I recall, Dirk had a sofa in his top floor office that was impossible to get in there, but he remembers moving it in. He has since tried moving it out, and paid a mathematician friend a lot of money to make a computer program to attempt to find a way to remove the sofa.
Later in the book he travels through time with a not-tardis and it pushes the wall of his staircase out just a bit for a split second while he was moving in.
>>1013845
I wish there were more Dirk Gently books. I think he was working on a new one when he died.
>>1013753
This is a two man job. and try leaning the top corner that is on the ceiling back and down while angling the bottom corner that is caught on the stair up. With a little wiggling and some choice curse words, you can get it up there.
you need to tilt it on an angle against that triangular step
>>1014147
>choice curse words
The single most useful tool in a DIYers toolbox. A full set of swear words. I have a set passed down to me by my father, and to him by his father.
>>1013753
from this pic looks like U just need to rotate it then up the stairs it goes.
I had this exact problem.
Rip off the bottom fabric of bed, cut long bottom supports in half and you can fold the bed around the corner, the bed frame should support it fine after you staple the fabric back on, and assemble the bed.
>>1014177
I've generated some of my own. Slunt is my favorite. I can use it in front of my mum.
call a friend. he picks it up from upstairs, you lower the higher side. no need to remove anything. it'll definitely go up.
I took fabric off the part that was stuck on the roof, then cut a piece of the wooden frame off in the middle which creates enough of a gap to tilt it back and get it up the step. From there it would go square and went up no problem. Screwed a piece of wood to the frame I cut off and got it back on the bed, then just hammered some nails to put the fabric back. That part is against the wall hidden, so all in all not too bad.
>>1013724
Not having an attic window hoist like the Dutch master race.
Feel for you OP, hour century old house has the same problems, but we have a random ass door to the outside on the second floor that opens to the roof, so all the furniture on the second floor had to be lifted up on to the roof, walked around to the back, and into the door. our neighbors thought we were crazy until they noticed the door.
>>1015324
Eyesore.
>>1016001
Traditional construction which dates long ago and works very fucking well. You must be an Americuck, but even here in Americuckland that design goes back hundreds of years in barns, mills, factories and warehouses.
BTW nobody spends much time looking up at houses unless they are working on them. Life goes on at STREET level.
Just cut that bitch in half.Noone needs a gf who goes out drinking on moving day.
>>1013724
where the fuck you do live with a stair that narrow and steep? is it even up to code?
It looks to me like making the ceiling slant up into the stairwell is actually the simplest solution, hard to notice and would give the beds ass end clearance to be lifted one more stair up so you can push it a bit further.
>>1017825
By code it's probably considered a ladder, which allows it to be really steep and narrow.
