...(Homeowner) Luke says he refused to sign the delivery forms after it was suggested he cut off his bannisters...
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I can hear that picture
This is why it can be easy to find a free piano. You can take it if you can take it.
Why anyone pays for a piano is beyond me. If you'll take it out of someone's house they'll gladly hand it to you. The very great musician Neko Case made a piano orchestra out of several free pianos she put in her barn to record with.
Just take the feet off. It'll go.
PIVOT!!!!
PIVEHHHHHHT
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUP!
"Hey Ross, when you were yelling 'piv-AT piv-AT,' what did you mean?"
My grandpa got a pool table in his basement in a very similar stair condition. To this day, I have no idea how beyond the fact that he had a come along tied to a 4x4 across the basement door. We just left it down there when we sold the house.
I still have no idea how people get grand pianos into their houses.
the legs come off a grand, they turn it 90d and wheel it on a cart. seen this done, required tall doors tho.
Hmmm interesting. Still sounds very difficult.
it's quite the workout even with a bunch of big guys and the right equipment.
We have that problem with our late parents house. The grand piano was placed into a second-floor room by removing the window casing and using a crane.
We are hoping that the piano will sell with the house.
First they buy and place the piano, THEN they build the house.
This looks a lot like a house i lived in during my studies. We had to known down the rail... :))
ETA: i mean it REALLY looks like the same staircase, including the little door.
There is a pullout bed in that couch, which makes this even more difficult because it is heavier, pops open when tipped, and will put you in the hospital.
Is this Dirk Gently's house?
I have a reservation at Esprit de Escalaire for 3 weeks ago if you're free.
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There is plenty of room to rotate it over the newel.
Do a barrel roll!
Wow! A math meme! Is this the 3d version of the unsolved moving sofa problem?
It's a "Friend's" meme.
You haven't been doomscrolling enough lately.
It's also mentioned on the wiki page, I'm astonished it could be solved finally, lets wait for the reviews!
Damn, I am a math graduate and somehow I do not know problems like this
I love older homes because they were built to last.
I hate them because you can't move anything anywhere without a saw.
Older homes are not build to last. Older homes are just worth preserving. I live in the Netherlands we have a shit ton of old homes, if these homes werenβt repaired or renovated across the centuries most of them would have collapsed. Before modern build codes, like before the 20th century, it wasnβt uncommon for an old home to just collapse with the inhabitants in it.
In many Dutch cities old homes are literally sinking into the ground, but instead of demolishing them most owners put in a new foundation. If it was an ugly modern glass box it would have been razed to the ground without a second thought.
Interesting. There are a ton of homes here built (starting about 1920) that still stand. And trust me they were built to last. Minor upkeep and they are still good today, but then everything is going to require minor upkeep.
Survivors bias. You don't see the old houses that weren't built well because they're gone.
Look at trainguyrom and read his comment it might give you a different perspective.
I would also say the ones that didn't survive were the ones that failed do to not being maintained.
I too owned a house built in the late 19th century with an addition built probably around the same time! The houses in the neighborhood were built to house workers from the steel mills nearby. On the main streets you had the foreman houses. Lots of brick, well made. My house was a worker's house, a stick frame shotgun shack. What little of a foundation it had was a few rows of bricks set upon railroad ties just below the surface. Most likely the only reason it is still standing is because it is on top of a hill and the soil drains quickly. When the wind would blow real hard the house would lean enough that the front door would open. The latch could get past the jam. Fixed it with shims but you get the idea. Nowadays building code would require a foundation built on footers beneath the frost line. (4 feet here) Another building code that is a big improvement is requiring (I forget the proper name) walls to be built in such a way that the space in-between studs doesn't act like a chimney in case of a fire. Major safety improvement there. I now own a house at least a hundred years old. Same story, built to house quarry workers. Fortunately someone who owned this house before me poured a concrete foundation all the way around. The additions on both my houses are pretty amateur probably because they were done by the homeowners and there was little enforcement of building codes if there were any.
Also well built houses also fall into ruin due to disrepair. Here in Cleveland there used to be Millionair's Row. A street where the titans of industry built their mansions, the Rockefellers, Carnegie, Mellon. Very few still exist due to being expensive to maintain. I have a lot of experience with old buildings not only in my personal life but also at work (I'm a contractor) also most of my friends are in the trades with experience in old homes. Suffice to say just because a house is old is no indication of its quality. I can saw plenty of bad stuff about new houses too.
My house was built in the late 19th century with an expansion added on in the 40s. The build quality of the original part of the house compared to the later built section is night and day, with the newest part of the house being the part that has aged so much worse due to trying out this new wood framing thing they started really getting into after the war
Wood framing has been around a lot longer than that?
... and no 90ΒΊ angle is actually 90ΒΊ
I feel this one in my soul.
We had to literally take our stairs apart to get our bed upstairs. Convenient!
We ultimately had to not use the upstairs for our bedroom because a queen sized bed can't fit up the stairs. We use the largest main floor room as our bedroom (which inconveniently one has to walk through that room to get to the stairs)
It's pretty clear that the stuff people choose to have in their homes today is different from the stuff people chose to have in their homes a century ago
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When moving into our house years ago I got our couch stuck in the stairs. I had to sawzall it into 3 pieces to get it out and take it to the dump
Long time ago, first time my wife left me alone for a week since we got together, I decided to go on a Xanax bender. I didn't remember a fucking thing. But, we had a basement with a spiral type stairway where the washer and dryer were. She came home and went to wash her clothes and yelled, "what the actually FUCK!?" there was an entire sheet of plywood wedged in that stairwell, impossibly stuck. She demanded an explanation that I simply could not provide so I played it off like I was doing a building project down there and it got stuck. I had to sawzall that thing to get it out. When we went down we discovered I had built an entire grow cabinet for weed which was entirely up and running. I was like, "surprise!"
She was surprised alright, but not as much as I was lol.
Looks to me like they were trying to get it down narrow stairs into a finished basement. I've been in the same situation many a time. This is solvable, though still a pain in the ass even when you get it just right.
Pivot table, or pivot couch?
It always felt like something was missing from the stairs. This wasn't it, but it was a good try.
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