Sofa Disassembly — 212-404-1757

Sofa and Couch Disassembly

Home
About
Contact
Free Quote
Service Locations
- New York City
- New Jersey (NJ)
- Washington DC
- Rhode Island
- Boston
  - Massachusetts
- Florida
  - Miami
  - Fort Lauderdale
- Virginia
- Maryland
  - Baltimore
Blog

You are here: Home > Blog

How to Measure Furniture to make sure it fits your space

Sofa Stuck in a doorway

It’s not easy to determine if a sofa will fit through a door or up a flight of stairs or into an elevator.

The most important lengths of the sofa are: the sofa width and the height of the sofa’s back (the back of the sofa when you’re sitting down – measure from floor to top of back).

First, Measure the dimensions of the sofa: height, width and length, then you need to measure the height, from the floor to the top of the sofa’s back.
Measure the dimensions of the opening, whether it’s a door or stairwell or elevator door.

If the sofa’s back height is longer than the door’s width, then the sofa’s width will need to be narrower than the door’s width.

For example, a door’s width is 45″ and the sofa’s width is 48″ and the sofa back height is 40″. This means you can turn the sofa so that the sofa’s back is facing the ceiling.

The sofa should slide through as long as the inside space will accommodate it (hallway or foyer).

If both the width and the back height are too long for the width of the door, then you need to consider the sofa’s length. Measure the length of the sofa and the height of the door opening. The sofa’s length will need to be shorter than the door’s height.

Also check the entrance way to see how much room you have to maneuver – there should be at least a foot or more of space on either side of the doorway in order to shimmy the sofa through. If the inside space is a narrow hallway, the couch may not fit.

If for some reason, even after you have taken the precautions to measure you find that your Sofa doesn’t fit, or if you simply “must have that piece”, feel free to give us a call. We firmly believe that size doesn’t matter and we will be more than happy to help you get that piece of furniture inside your home where it belongs.

{ 0 comments }

Dr. Sofa’s Disassembly and Reassembly featured in The New York Times

It seems that over time the furniture has been getting bigger and bigger, but the houses that we live in are not growing accordingly.

This posses a basic problem of how to fit in the furniture and is the subject of a New York Times article “Relax there is Plenty of room” in which our company Dr. Sofa was featured.

Here is an excerpt , you can read the whole article here:

Sofa stuck on a doorway

“….In some cases — particularly in New York, where doorways and elevators are narrow — big pieces bump up against simple laws of physics. Max Bar-Nahum, the director of sales and marketing at Dr. Sofa, a Bronx-based company that specializes in the dis assembly and reassembly of furniture, said he gets several calls a day from people who buy a couch or chair and discover it’s too big to deliver. The steel-frame couches made by B&B Italia and other modern designers bring him a lot of business. “You have no idea how big these sofas are,” Mr. Bar-Nahum said.

Granted, it can be hard to gauge the size of furniture in a store, where the ceilings are often high and the showrooms loft-like.

But retailers show no sign of dropping the biggest pieces from their lines, even at a time when many Americans are downsizing in response to the housing crash and recession. The median size of a new home, as of the third quarter of 2011, was 2,244 square feet, down from 2,308 square feet in 2006, said David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Homebuilders. He added that the square footage should level off at about 2,200 — a trend line that hardly screams Texas depth…”

Thank you to all of our friends for making us the preferred choice when it comes to dis assembly and reassembly your furniture!!!!!!!!!

{ 0 comments }