I'm worried my new sofa won't fit through the door!

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I have a new sofa coming and I'm so worried it won't fit through the door. I have an entrance vestibule so they'll have to get it through that. Its not particularly high but is long. What have I done?

Do you have the measurements? Have you checked them against the size of the vestibule?

Pivot

Explain the problem to who you bought it from and ask if you can exchange it for something smaller. Hopefully, there shouldn't be a problem. They'll want to retain your goodwill.

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They can usually take them apart. They had to remove the arm to get one of my sofas in but another time I bought one I had to pay extra for the removable arm incase this happened.

Delivery guys are magic, and in a pinch double glazing panels are disturbingly easy to pop out if you know a fitter.

Pivot!

We had to have our windows taken out to get it in...

Contrary to popular opinion, shouting pivot does not increase your door size by 20%.

Yes, delivery guys are magic and I'm sure that the whole incident will déroule with the same sense of calm and security as depicted in this 2000 French classic music video by Zebda, "Tomber la chemise" (Take your shirt off.)

This time tomorrow, it will all be over.

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I bet you they will get them in somehow. I'm looking at my two really big old sofas as I type and I don't know how they did it. I'm in France and in a second floor flat and all my furniture has been here for about fifteen years now. When I was younger I didn't think about these things and y'know, they always worked out.

I got my previous sofa in through the window!

Ended up with chairs this time. Partly because there's no way a sofa would fit through my window in my current place

I live in a narrow four storey house. Delivery guys are geometrical wizards.

For all else pop the windows.

Have a tip ready!

Mine came in through the patio doors at the back. They parked in the laneway and brought the monster through the back gate and all the way up the garden path.

Neighbours were highly amused.

My son delivered sofas for a while, they come apart and are reassembled.

I have had specialists come and remove a (conventional, not designed to be removed) end from a sofa and replace the end after getting it in before so, if all else fails, that is a possibility.
However, if you have the measurements, the things you probably need to look at are: How wide is the vestibule area? Does it have a corner between the front door and the room the sofa is to go in? Do you have enough ceiling height to accommodate the sofa up on its end?
HTH!

You can often get them in through the window. Find a local window fitter, (local facebook page is good for this)
It's surprisingly easy to remove a glass panel and put it back in!

I did have a sofa get stuck halfway (third floor flat) and ultimately have to be returned.
Weirdly though all its dimensions were smaller than a sofa we had previously had delivered successfully (the first sofa the retailer/delivery checked dimensions before so they were on the hook for getting it in and i think were a lot better and negotiating the angles)

I had this exact panic last year - we have a very narrow door it had to pass through. I took off the door stop behind it and worried for weeks. The sofa was just slightly bigger than door on various dimensions. Delivery men didn't even blink, they did some magical pivoting thing and smoothly popped it though in seconds. You can watch videos on it on you tube, it's kinda like hooking it round the corner and pivoting at exact right moment, Hope it's the same for you.

But it would be entertaining

Did you get your sofa in? Or are you living in a wondowless bombsite? Are you trapped under the sofa shouting, "Pivot! Pivot!"

We had difficulty getting a piano into our house, so I wrote down/drew how we'd got it in and stuck that to the wall behind it. I thought I'd been ever so clever - but when we moved, we could not get the reverse process to work.

It ended up having to go out down the garden.