Very heavy filing cabinet

PS I know that website offers an upstairs delivery service, but I will not be paying =A3929 to take advantage of it. I'm buying a bargain secondhand one, hence the DIY issues.

How about one of these?

two wheels climbing up the leading edge of the stairs! Once it is on its base the weight is spread out, but on a trolley the weight is concentrated on the two wheels. M.

Apart from the price!

I'd be concerned about how much more it will weigh when it's full. Paper weighs a LOT.

Mary

The one that Hannibal Lecter used in the film 'Hannibal' was slightly different to the HSS ones was a better design imho! It had 3 wheels on each side driven by a motor and a manual crank handle that Lecter turned to raise Inspector Pazzi! Does anyone else remember it?

I'm beginning to think that the whole idea is a non-starter and I shall just have to let it all burn.

IME the Victorians were good at over-engineering things. However, IIRC as general rule, floors built for domestic use were considred able to take a distribute load of 40-50lbs / sq ft, while offices were generally rated at

Colin Bignell

Hi Colin, thanks for the figures. A quick calculation puts me at over

Do you have anything that can't be scanned/photographed and stored on CDROM elsewhere?

Yes, I know it's not the same as having the originals.

Owain

Sackbarrow not what you want. A winch and runners is OK for straight stairs.

If it were me, I'd hire one of those hand winch jobbies, and lay some scaffolding planks up the stairs, and put it on a board and winch it up.

With levers, you should be able to 'walk' it across the room to where it needs to go. Use more boards to prevent carpet damage.

However 5cwt is only 40 stone. and thats about 3-4 people ..so if your room can take that, it can take the safe..safely.;-)

I suspect you could end up there, even if you started on the first floor :-)

One advantage of the cellar is that the safe only has to protect the contents from falling debris, not survive dropping through a couple of burning floors first.

Colin Bignell

OK, I like the winch idea, I guess a tirfor winch would be the sort of thing:

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from Martin Pentreath contains these words:

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt (with a 3-drawer Chubb model)

There's a very surprising amount of weight in the drawers. Remove them and you'll be surprised at the difference it makes. Beware, though, these drawers are a two-person lift. Thankfully mine is on a concrete floor at ground level. Rolled into final position on a couple of rollers cut from an old rake handle -- and left on them. And no, it doesn't roll anywhere when you pull out a drawer.

They are normally concrete between the inner and outer walls.

For a fire safe they would use insulating material rather than concrete. With an inner wall and outer wall of 5mm steel plus drawers runners and bracing, I could get the weight to ~233kg from the dimensions

But may also get water-logged.

What you do is use a lump of timber and something like a doorway or window frame, and rope that as an anchor to wherever the winch needs to go.

As long as you can prop the load safely when you need to relocate the winch, progress will be slow, but sure.

Use lots of padding around all ropes otherwise they will cut into anything they touch.