How many men needed to bring a fridge up the stairs

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Hmmm. I never even saw them until 2 or 3 years ago!!

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in news:V0dxl.21774$c45.14117 @nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com:

Well I'm 55 and could move it myself...downstairs anyway.

I'm sure you could. I bought a basic 14 cu ft. fridge for our breakroom at work. It was delivered by a guy about 60 and he did it by himself. Only had to go up four steps. He said he'd not do the larger models though.

Tony Hwang wrote in news:Ugdxl.1519$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe15.iad:

Depending on the frig, even the newer side by sides can have some weight. Problem is when where you have to maneuver it only has room for one person at each end.

Bit back I had to move a side by side from one room to another myself. Didn't really have a step but an offset. Doorway I had to go through was so tight not only did I have to take the doors off but even the door hinges and it had to go through perpendicular to the wheels. Ice maker solenoid barely cleared without removing it as well. Once you remove the doors, food contents and any glass shelving, it lightens up quite a bit.

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in news:uEixl.15106$ snipped-for-privacy@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com:

Well, I sorta meant stand at the top, yell "Fore!" and give it a teeter.

He was probably 30 and just looked that way from delivering refrigerators.

This should not be a problem. Strapping the fridge to the dolly allows you to tip the fridge to the center of balance so one guy can roll it on a flat surface without a problem.

As for the stairs, this is only a series of small lifts where the guy on the top pulls up and the guy(s) on the bottom lift, so with 2 guys it should be doable, with three no problem.

When I was in college in the early 1980s, my room made got a refrigerator. we somehow managed to get it to the loading dock of the other dorm complex, and another student helped the two of us heft it onto the back of my 1974 Dodge Dart Swinger. We managed to get it into the other building, and into the dorm room some how. That was quite a trip.

At the close of his life, wasn't he burried under Dollar Tree?

I recall the story I was told by a friend when I was in Hawaii. They had a refrigerator to move up stairs and they were all fussing about how to do it when his little Japanese grandfather got fed up with with their talk. He grabbed a length of rope, threw it around the refrigerator, hauled it up on his back and took it up by himself. So all you need to do is find a Japanese grandfather and your troubles are over.

Bill

I'll tell you better in 2 yrs, but I can't imagine asking for help if I had to do that & I'm 58, 10 yrs beyond a 'cardiac event'- and have chronic fatigue syndrome.

It is *all* I would do that week, but with a decent hand-truck it isn't a major job.

Jim

That's pretty good. I've moved a spinet piano on the back of my Catalina or Centurion convertible. Twice. I put a double bed mattress on the trunk and lowered top first.

But a fridge might be even heavier.

had friends who had a house fire. had to move freezer out of basement into garage.

what a mess, I measured and KNEW house door had to come off.

ginny insited freezer would fit without removing door, her hubby insisted too.

so I said its a waste of time but lets try..... it didnt fit:(

Ginny asked what do we do now? freezer HAD to go back down steps, and door come off.

In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood's character - about 75 - and the kid from next door moved a freezer from the basement to the driveway.

One person could do your job if he disassembled the refrigerator first.

Glad to see what an impact college had on your writing ability :-)

Did you actually hire someone to clean your dorm room and provide you with a refrigerator?

College didn't seem to help you much either. Maid

This sounds like some kind of tricky math question... ":-/

depends on the weight of the fridge and your definition of "good shape" and wether or not they've ever moved anything heavy.