Preparing for a do-it-yourself move. Challenge is a California King foam mattress situated on the second floor. This was a hassle enough bringing in while new, it was wrapped and compressed.
Any suggestions for moving this down steep narrow stairs?
Moving a mattress
Jul 10, 2013
9 Replies
hire professional help
took two husky guys to move my ~220lbs cal king tempurpedic 30 miles north to its current resting place and they did break a sweat in the process
150 sillicone valley dollars back in 2008 ymmvAny suggestions for moving this down steep narrow stairs?
Rub your ass with butter...that would involve a dip.
220 POUNDS for just the mattress???? My non-cal king (which is the same as cal, is it not, except cal is 6" longer?) couldn't have weighed anywhere near that much. My stairwell wasn't steep or narrow and it wasn't foam but a standard mattress, but I think I brought it upstairs myself when I was 36, and took it downstairs myself when I got a new one. IIRC
I did have help getting the one upstairs.
Even with help, a small guy in good shape, I can't believe my share was 12/13 * 110 pounds.
Get a couple of pairs of sticky gloves and a case of beer and call a husky friend. No beer till the job is done.
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I used to buy these two pair for two dollar and Family Dollar ...
Can you compress it again with ratchet straps? I'd try that...
nate
I like that idea. Straps providing a needed hand hold for moving the otherwise unwieldy mattress.
Perhaps the entire bed
I wonder if you could get a large enough vacuum storage bag that you can use your vacuum to remove the air and reduce the size of the foam mattress?
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TDD
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