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by JR8 » Sun, 02 Nov 2014 5:16 pm
How much stuff have you got?
I've done this a couple of ways. Once when moving a short distance, a few streets, into a 4th floor 'walk-up' (7? flights of stairs) I got together 4-5 friends on a Sunday morning with the promise of a no holds barred slap up lunch on me down the pub afterwards. That worked fine but it was hard physical work.
2nd time was a professional move, ex a 4th/5th storey apartment. There was a passenger lift but for speed they brought a thing like.... er, a tractor, from which unfolded a conveyor belt structure that even at 45 degrees reached all the way up to our unit. So rather than everything going via the lift, from the opened kitchen window they simply put filled boxes on the conveyor, and down they went.
Oh, and I've seen 'window deliveries' of things like sofas in buildings where there are no lifts, and the stairs are too narrow to walk it up. That's basically a bunch of Aussies with ropes standing on the roof. Only had this done once, and then the next time a few years later I was planning to, to replace said sofa was told 'No way, Health+Safety [laws], are you crazy, no one's going to touch a job like that'...
p.s. Washing machines seem to contain two sodding huge concrete slabs on the internal sides, that probably act as stabilisers. Get them out while moving the machine and the net machine actually weighs very little.