From: Mark Fineman 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: How do I find out if furniture can get delivered?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:57:51 -0500

How do I find out if furniture that I am thinking of buying
can get delivered where I want it?

I wanted to buy a sofa and could see that it would be a tight
fit to get it up stairs, down hallways, through doors, etc.

I asked the furniture company to do a "measurement" to make sure
that the sofa would fit.

I was expecting someone with a computer and a laser measuring device
to look at my doors, hallways, stairs, and a database of the
furniture and produce a printout that said either
 . No way
or
 . give the exact 30 step procedure needed to get the sofa up the
   stairs and oriented the right way for use.  (In other words, 
   getting 96" wide sofa in the proper room, but standing on
   edge unable to be used because the ceiling was 8' tall doesn't
   solve the problem.)

If the procedure wasn't completely automated, I at least expected
the guy from the factory to enter all of the dimensions and work
in a virtual reality model to see if the job could be done.

Failing that, I expected someone to come with a Tinkertoy kit that
he would assemble to match the dimensions of the sofa and he and
his sofa would see if they could get the 10 pound wire frame to the
proper place.

Instead, I got a guy with a tape measure, who measured things
incorrectly and missed one of the critical points.  Oh - he also
had wrong dimensions for the sofa.

Does anyone know of a company that uses modern techniques or at
least wire frame models to do this sort of thing? (Yes, being
able to get a wire frame in place doesn't mean that you could
do the moves with a 400 pound piece of furniture, but it would
be a start.)
moves with 400 pound cabinets