professional sofa hoisting in Calgary?

KK

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Nov 7, 2009, 11:10:50 PM11/7/09

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Hi, I recently moved into an older apartment with a small elevator that
cannot accommodate the size of my sofa. I heard of people hoisting up
their sofas through their balconies and am wondering if there are any
professional services in the Calgary area that do this. Please let me
know if you know of any. Thanks

Tony Hwang

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Nov 8, 2009, 8:09:54 PM11/8/09

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Hmmm,
How high is your apt.? Any moving company would do such thing but I
don't know how much they'll charge.

Greg Goss

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Nov 9, 2009, 2:04:43 AM11/9/09

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KK <kon_kat(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:

How high is your apartment. There's often a lot more room in the
stairwells. I was a pro mover twenty years ago (don't laugh at my
waistline now), and there was one time we took a sofa up five stories
up the stairs because we couldn't get it into the elevator.

There was another time that we could get it into the elevator but
couldn't make the corner into his apartment. We went up the stairs to
the roof and over the side with ropes to his 12th storey apartment.

More than once we hauled pianos up several flights into elevatorless
apartments.

If you have enough of a budget for a pro mover (probably a minimum two
hours at $85 an hour or so just to do a stair carry if possible), then
call a mover and ask for an estimator to come look at your stairway or
estimate a hoist job.
--
apart from one noisy guy up in Canada, no-one wants
a three-cylinder tissue box on bicycle tires.

KK

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Nov 9, 2009, 2:48:18 AM11/9/09

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In article <7lpt8fF...@mid.individual.net>, go...@gossg.org says...

Thanks for the responses so far.

I am on the 4th floor of a 12 floor apartment. I checked out the
stairway and it does not offer any more clearance than what the elevator
does. I did have professional movers when I did the move but
unfortunately the movers I had did not offer hoisting and could not
refer me to anyone that did. I have been checking out ads for movers
and none of them advertise hoisting as one of their services so I may
just have to start calling all of them until I find one that does.

Greg Goss

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Nov 9, 2009, 6:15:13 AM11/9/09

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KK <kon_kat(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the responses so far.
>
>I am on the 4th floor of a 12 floor apartment. I checked out the
>stairway and it does not offer any more clearance than what the elevator
>does. I did have professional movers when I did the move but
>unfortunately the movers I had did not offer hoisting and could not
>refer me to anyone that did. I have been checking out ads for movers
>and none of them advertise hoisting as one of their services so I may
>just have to start calling all of them until I find one that does.

You may want to phone "cherry picker" rental places. Do cherry
pickers go forty feet up? I'm not sure about the safety issues of
lifting a sofa with one of those versus rigging some kind of pulley
off the balcony above yours and a rope belay to hold it off the
balconies below yours. Might be easier to buy a sectional.

johnny5

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Nov 13, 2009, 9:10:39 PM11/13/09

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403-828-1722 visit www.rpmpianomoving.com.
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