Has anyone moved into a 2nd floor flat in a victorian/edwardian terrace?

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

How do they get your furniture up 2 flights of stairs? 3 seatet sofa?

What if you have an American fridge freezer?

xx

take it apart if you can? otherwise through window.

I lived on the 3rd floor of a Victorian house. All of my furniture was taken up the stairs.
In Amsterdam, they have a hook on the outside of their town houses which they use to haul large furniture to the top floors.

Do they have an American fridge already?
if not you need to do some careful measuring.
I have a Haier 90 wide fridge, but it is shallower than an American.

You measure the doors and angles and see if the furniture can get through. My sofa came in bits. My neighbours sofa actually got stuck when they were trying to move it out. A normal fridge is fine but an enormous fridge would not fit through the doorways but may not really fit in the room either.

One of my relatives in the Netherlands had a removal company. They used ropes and pulleys to get stuff through windows. He had an accident when a piano fell on top of him. He did recover though!

There's no way to take the sofa or the fridge apart

The fridge freezer would be about 85cm wide and 60cm deep

I just can't picture it

Omg 😲
Where did the piano get him? Like on his head or his legs? Wow, glad he survived

That's cool about the Netherlands

Did the removal men do it? Did they charge extra? xx

That's so cool about Amsterdam, properly designed architecture

I’m on the first floor, it was a tight squeeze but lovely delivery men did it and got a generous tip as I knew what a PITA it all was for them. Have neighbours upstairs who got all their stuff in. If you live in a city, they’re used to it as so many people are in converted flats.

@mumofoneAlonebutokay I did it with help from friends.

Oh amazing 🙌

I'd have to hire someone 😭

Ours just went up the stairs.

"Pivot!"

My DS moved out of a PB flat, with a large service lift, so no thoughts about size, manoeuvrability when they bought furniture to an Edwardian conversion flat on 2nd and 3rd floors. The stairs were all narrow and twisty but the removal men did an amazing job - no damage to walls or contents. Though no American fridge in the equation.

I had a first floor flat in a small Victorian conversion and the problem was the inner front doorway - too narrow for the sofa to get through, no matter what.

We couldnt get our American sized fridge freezer into our 1st floor Victorian flat (or out of the house after it broke down) without first taking off our front door. It just wouldn't fit through. Doorway too narrow. After it broke down the easiest way to get it out was to remove the doors from the fridge freezer and the doorway again because it was 2 guys who came to collect it. So stressful. I never got an American fridge freezer again after that.

When moving in, it wasnt too difficult to get it up the stairs and into the house. There was 2 men at the top, and 2 men at the bottom. 4 in all.. I remember they actually seemed to love the challenge... Just leave it to us.. we'll show you how strong we are etc.. When they got it into the kitchen I could tell they were mighty proud.. Lots of laughs etc

You will probably need a few people.See if you can get some strong friends or relatives just for that aspect of moving. If you can't get the help you need you could always consider selling it and getting something more easier to manoeuvre.

in an upper conversion, the staircase is boxed in so you lose the option to lift things over the bannister. My sofa has to be one in parts.

My sofa went through a window when the window was taken out. I would need to destroy it to remove it.

Our first flat wasa 2nd floor post war purpose built flat. The sofa was craned in through a single glazed window when DH bought it. Then we had double glazing fitted and it wouldn't go out the same way when we moved out. We had to take it apart (in a way it wasn't designed to !) But DH is keen on DIY and figured a way it could work , put it back together, and 19 years later it's still very usable!

only on old warehouses - now converted to "town houses" - the pully was used to pull up bags of flower/grains/stock from the ships on canals to take it to the lofts to dry out. It's not invented to pull up fridges (and these type of houses are all over NL - on canals)

That was my exact first thought too 😅.

Sorry OP not much help but I've had a little chuckle. Good luck!

Thank you everyone ❤️

I'm just doing a little research

As an aside, could anyone compare kentish town to Finsbury park, to live in?