Moving heavy furniture

Carmen

Hi,
Can anyone please give me advice on how to move a extremely heavy wardrobe :eek: The floor needs to be sanded,coated and then the wardrobe put back!
There will be one fairly strong man, one not so strong and me to supervise!
Any safe tips please?
Thanks
Carmen x

wallbash

Could you do anything to reduce the weight , take doors off, shelves out etc.
Blanket on floor tip wardrobe onto blanket and pull .

ormus

two small rugs and two pieces of shiny plastic. same size as the rugs.

place plastic under the rugs. place one rug at each end, and slowly/gently lift wardrobe onto the rugs. one end at a time.

then you can slide it all over the house if required.

Carmen

Wallbash,
We shall remove everything that is not screwed in.
It is a very old, tall, heavy beast not sure if we will be able to lift it back up from the floor! Only need to move it about six feet...grrrr.
Carmen x

Carmen

The plastic under the rugs idea sounds good, thanks Ormus.
Now I need to find two large bits of plastic!
Do you think strong plastic black bags would work?
Carmen x

ormus

any strong plastic will do it.

iamcornholio

It will slide or shuffle without anything underneath. It can't be that heavy or it would have fell through the floor

phill99

If it is old ypou will probably find that it can be disassembled for moving. They were always designed to come apart for moving house. Have a look inside for screw heads etc and you may be surprised.

wallbash

It will slide or shuffle without anything underneath

Go with the plastic ( or blanket) do anything to cut friction.

iamcornholio

wallbash wrote: »

do anything to cut friction.

Vaseline it is then :cool:

diable

I borrowed a "skateboard" from work permanently ;p Square piece of wood with 4 castors and when I moved a wardrobe all we did was tilt it slide the skateboard underneath and just wheeled it around.