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Moving a Box Spring that just... won't... fit... [solved]
strakha_7
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Hi PA H/A thread, I need your help.
So we're moving, and everything was going great. The couch, which I thought would be the stickler, went off without a hitch. Phew! Sadly, I was mistaken. After getting the mattress upstairs, we went to move up the box spring. And then the grunting, cursing and wall-damaging began.
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with moving a box spring that's just too big for the stairwell it's slated to go up, and how they got around that problem. Before recommending me to Google, I managed to find this site which seems to explain it. If someone has done it and could meaningfully make that site clearer, that would be fantastic.
Thanks gang.
So we're moving, and everything was going great. The couch, which I thought would be the stickler, went off without a hitch. Phew! Sadly, I was mistaken. After getting the mattress upstairs, we went to move up the box spring. And then the grunting, cursing and wall-damaging began.
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with moving a box spring that's just too big for the stairwell it's slated to go up, and how they got around that problem. Before recommending me to Google, I managed to find this site which seems to explain it. If someone has done it and could meaningfully make that site clearer, that would be fantastic.
Thanks gang.
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That's the best I can offer. Sorry.
Also: is that a DFA reference in your name?
If so, awesome.
personally, I'd just get a platform bed instead... no box spring needed
I had literally the exact same problem when moving into my apartment about a year ago. The matress just barely squeezed into the stairway and we got it upstairs, and then the rigid boxspring didn't have a chance.
I sawed it in half and repaired it once I'd brought it up the stairs.
(Or, at least that was the plan, but I kept putting off repairing it and it's still sitting in two pieces in a closet somewhere while the mattress lays on the floor, which turned out to work just fine.)
Here's how the magic went down:
What we did was cut the fabric underneath the box spring across it near the middle. Then we cut a bit of the cushiony material that makes up the topside of the boxspring but is attached at the sides as well. This was *very* hard on our sawing so we decided to cut about half a foot to a foot in total to give us enough clearance for the hacksaw. We used a hacksaw which is typically used for cutting metal, so it was good for ripping and crosscutting the lumber we encountered.
We then cut the pieces of wood that run lengthwise in the box spring. One had three, one had six. We found that after cutting just one piece of wood the thing became alot more flexible, and after three or four it did become quite bendy. We managed to get it up the stairs without actually folding it in half which was good. For repairs we're going to go to Home Depot or Rona and get some steel pieces or perhaps some other hardwood (that's why the things are so expensive, made of more expensive hardwoods) to place along the bottom of the box spring. I'll use staples rather than nails to attach the wood to the frame, at a friend's suggestion, as staples are apparently quite a bit stronger.
Tada! so hopefully if someone else has a crazy idea like this in the future they can learn from this procedure.