Sofa size help - will this fit through my door?!

[Amw1984]

Hi, wondering if anyone can help me please! I want to order a new sofa, the size are this:
Size H74, W218, D94cm.

My door frame is this: W67cm H193. I can remove the door which gives me W74 H193cm

Will this sofa fit though does anyone know?!!

In my experience, furniture is deliberately made to fit through a standard door. The legs are usually removable, and I was surprised to discover that a recent sofa purchase came in two pieces... the back was separate!

If you are having the piece delivered, the movers will be experts. Hopefully.

Stand it on its end. It should go through a standard door no problem like that.

If the door frame is 193 and the sofa is 218 it won't go through stood on end.

Last time we bought a sofa, the company came out to measure after taking the deposit, and we could have cancelled if they didn't think it would fit. Is this a possibility?

If the height of the back of the sofa is 74 and you can make the door opening 74 wide, then yes, it should easily fit with one person on each end and it tilted forward to just shy of 90 degrees.

So like this:

As you may see from my crappy diagram, my description was useless. I meant tilted backwards just over 90 degrees.

The length of the sofa is irrelevant unless you have corners to negotiate?

Love the diagram :) well, there are corners, but I’m thinking if I stand it on its end to get round the corner, then it should plonk just in front of the door, and can then tilt it backwards like you say, so the bottom of it’s going through the door first

The problem is it’s an Argos sofa, so their delivery guys are more general deliver than sofa specialists. They tried the front door whilst my mum was there yesterday didn’t take it out the packaging, or try the back door - which is the door I think it will fit through. They’ve said they will redeliver, but only to outside, so I don’t know if it’s worth taking the gamble again 😬

I can't do the math, but the vital measurement is missing, it's about the size of the diagonal, because they twist it when they put it in, so up on it's legs, tilted back and then twisted,

As a pp said, furniture is made to fit through standard doors normally, what stops it going in is if there is a wall very close to the door ie a narrow hall or something,

Here’s the sofa dimensions, doesn’t say the diagonal which may have been helpful

We had a very narrow door in our old flat and managed to get two awkwardly sized and shaped sofas through, but only because I sawed the wooden legs off. I used to do scaled cut outs to work out how to get them through the door, like Pps diamgram above.

What happens if it's delivered and doesn't fit? Can you get a similar one from a company who deliver into the property?

We recently helped SIL with this. Absolute bloody nightmare. On paper the dimensions should have just fit. In practice we were moving it into her flat with the front door on the side of her hall, so we had to get it in and simultaneously turn it 90 degrees. In the end we had to take off 4 doors (one of which was a fire proof door and very very heavy - DH nearly crushed his hand so don't underestimate) and even then it was hit and miss. Everyone including SIL wanted to give up because they were sure it wouldn't fit but I convinced them all to keep trying. We got it in but only just and it took over 5 hours to get it in.

Personally I wouldn't do it if you're having to turn it at all.

I guess because they will only deliver to outside then it’s out responsibility and tough if it doesn’t fit, not sure they’d take it back?
The problem is that it’s to replace a faulty one we bought from them, that they’ve now discontinued because of the manufacture issue, so we have to get another one from them, they won’t refund just exchange, and that’s the only other one she likes 😫

I was just trying to think if I had any large boxes I could stick together to make the size of it to trial but typically not!

Should fit fine without packaging and the legs unscrewed.

I know they never provide the diagonal, even sofa companies, it's very odd as it's the critical dimension. Ours is huge, and we have small doors I phoned dfs and asked for the diagonal and they couldn't provide it, but said it would fit. So I stressed, then the guys turned up, I asked if it would fit and they looked at me like I was nuts and said yes, no problem, they simply slanted and twisted and in it went,

Do you mean the measurement of what would be the missing edge of you were to treat my cross-sectional diagram as a triangle? That's just the square root of (742 + 942) which is 119.63...close enough to say 120cm.

But it's not a critical measurement for this scenario. If you have it positioned so that the left armrest is approaching the door first, and just tip it backwards, it's going to fit through.

It's just if you don't have 218cm space to make a straight approach, or 218cm space on the other side of your doorway, then that slightly complicates things.

Just seen the picture you posted. If you unscrew the legs you may well not even have to take the door off

It looks like the problem is the arms. A lot of sofas are L shaped so you can take them through tilted. I don't think that's much help here because it's a rectangle end-on.

However if it's only 74cm high then with the door off and the legs off, like mountaineer says, won't it just fit through tilted onto its back?