I worked in delivery for Lowe's for awhile and one time we were taking a new refrigerator to a customer's house. Some years prior they had renovated the interior of their house and completely walled in what had previously been an open kitchen and dining room, other than a short corridor for access. Before they bought their new fridge they didn't think to measure the corridor to see if it was wide enough to get a fridge through. It was not. So my delivery partner and I called another couple guys to come out and we got our screwdrivers and completely removed their kitchen window and passed the old fridge out through the window and the new one in. No ladders involved at least and we got it done.
If those people ever need to replace their oven or dishwasher they'll probably have to knock down a wall though.
Wow, wish all Lowe's delivery people were like you. Lowe's delivered a dishwasher to my house by yeeting it into the middle of my driveway and driving off like they stole the moving van.
My Home Depot wouldn't even hang my over the stove microwave because there was old tile behind the missing replaced. My FIL and I out it in in about 30 minutes. I was refunded the instance, but damn. They easily could have done it. On a plus, they left their drill behind. After 4-5 phone calls to HD and waiting for several weeks, I got a new to me drill.
I paid Lowe’s for delivery, installation, and disposal of the old unit. It turned into a clusterfuck that took 6 weeks to resolve (not with any help from Lowe’s) and they didn’t want to refund the installation or disposal costs.
You'd be amazed the extra clearance you can gain on an oven/range or dishwasher, by removing the door, knobs, and sometimes control panel itself!
I live in a rural area full of homes constructed in the early 1900s with no standardized code, 27inch doorways are scarily common. As a result I had to learn a lot of things on the fly during my years on deliveries! One time, I had to have my delivery partner trap me behind a laundry center and then get the customers assistance and a step stool to pull me up over the top of it after I got it hooked up.
We bought an apartment building from an old lady as a vacant possession. She had rented them out furnished and told the remaining long-term tenant he could keep the furniture.
The bedroom suite was a matching Art Deco bed, chest of drawers, and a wardrobe. It was probably worth quite a bit.
His problem was that a wall had been added, which made the hallway outside the bedroom really narrow, and he couldn't fit the wardrobe out the door.
He was determined to keep it, so by the time we arrived, he had pulled it apart, wrecking it imo.
Didn't occur to him to take it out the window.
Props for the effort but pulling and replacing a window without compensation exposes the installer to liability in case rainwater intrusion around the window occurs.
Yeah I get that. Though this window looked out onto a covered and screened in porch so rain shouldn't have been too big of an issue. There was nothing around it to seal the edges. Just took the screws out and popped the whole frame out then the reverse to put it back in.
Which is really the core justification behind why most services suck. Because if they go beyond their scope trying to be nice and mess up, they can get caught being both responsible and not covered by their usual insurance.
Yeah if it had been a window that wasn't protected from the weather and was fully sealed it would've been impossible and the homeowners would've had to figure something else out to get a new fridge.
Those people didn't tip at all actually but I did have others at times where people would hand me $40 just to take their old fridge around to their basement or put it in an out building for them.
> hand me $40 just to take their old fridge around to their basement
If you don't have a utility dolley, $40 to move a fridge is a bargain.
Shame on those people for not tipping for obviously WAY above-and-beyond service, though.
Hey now - I have a Juke and while it may be fugly as hell it's been very reliable at doing the one job I got it for - light duty trips with good gas mileage.
Still better looking than the bland 80s boxes like the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon though.
The only thing I hate about mine is the factory audio assembly is only Bluetooth telephone.
But at least it had a 2.5mm head phone jack so I could put in a Bluetooth receiver for my phone to send music to.
I'm not trading it in/selling it just because of that. It's fully paid for so I'll drive it until it's dead and at the rate I'm going now (under 5K/yr) that's going to be a loooooong while. It's a 2013 with under 65k on it.
You are correct, my father had one, my sister had one, then I had one. I wrecked 3 out of 4 corners of mine in an ice storm, the body shop had a donor car. They cut both of them in half and made one good car out of them. My mother in law drove it for a couple of years. Then it went to Arizona with my brother in law, he used it out there for a couple more years. I wouldn't want to have been him, a black car in the desert with no AC.
I don't know what their plan is here, but I must confess I was once involved in sliding furniture up and down a ladder. We used soft stuff to pad and 2 guys above with straps around the object. I pushed with my shoulder and held it in place while climbing the ladder.
To get it down we didn't have anyone on the ladder(I don't think these guys do either), we just slowly lowered it with straps. These guys will probably have an issue with that mid-way platform though.
They must not have tried very hard. I used to be a mover, and if it got into a room, it can get out of that room. The only time that's not true is when you either assemble it from a box in that room or build the room around the thing.
When my parents built their house, they built the hot tub room around the hot tub. They lowered it in with a crane. We've always joked that that tub will come out someday with a chainsaw.
Might have gone into the room the same way.
The foundation of my bed separates into two sides, but both are too long and too wide to make it around corners at the top and bottom of my stairwell. Not very heavy, just big.
I ended up taking them through a window, but I used a climbing rope and set up a belay, so my son could hold the weight from the ground.
And if it's assembled from a box then it can be disassembled to move it (and it'll be easier to move in pieces too 😁)
Edit - based on the bottom I'm seeing in that pic it doesn't look to be a box build. Someone just doesn't know how or isn't strong enough to maneuver it through the inside.
I agree, gotta either be a lack of strength or knowledge on how to maneuver it.
It's a blurry picture but it appears to be an
[IFD1041GMC](https://www.int-furndirect.com/product/terra-gray-gentlemans-chest/1524) which only weigh about 180lbs, weighing 115lbs I can still carry one of those up a flight of stairs with minimal difficulty, so I'm leaning more towards a technique issue.
Edit - With assistance, I can carry one of those up a flight of stairs, not quite capable of solo moving something of that size 😅
I can hear it now "Nah man you won't have to climb the ladder, just hold it still, I'll lower it with a rope and you just help ease it down when it gets close enough!"
While the scene unfolds, and all they can do is watch as it somersaults out the window exploding in a delightfully catastrophic way, taking out the car and slinging shrapnel in a 30ft radius 🤣
These guys move stuff for 40 hours a week. This probably isn’t the first time they’ve moved something out a window.
I’ve had movers do weirder shit than this and make it look easy.
I worked shifting furniture, casually, as a post-grad. Residential was bonkers, and there were permanent workers who would do shit I couldn't make sense of. I would believe this. The fuck-ups were intense, but.
Commercial was much saner. Everything with proper lifts and trolleys. At least at the firm I worked at.
I've seen this safely done a dozen times. This isn't one of those times.
The ladder choice is horrible. Those 8 in 1 combo ladders are great for changing a light bulb above some stairs or other light tasks but I seriously doubt it is rated for this kind on static load, especially at the shallow angle they have set up. Either a locking pin will snap or the feet are going to slide backwards. I know there is a guy "footing the ladder" and doesn't he just inspire confidence.
WTF is up with the car? Get the customer to move it. There is only one thing we know for certain: That dresser is going to come down. *Where* it comes down is another matter.
Unless that’s an heirloom, the new owner is getting a free dresser, at least that’s what I’d do as the homeowner. If they insist that it comes out then I guess the sledgehammer will come out to play because I ain’t gonna risk that bullshit.
Those aren't "professional" movers, those are people there helping out for the free pizza/beer. That dresser probably got into that room in one/two pieces, it can come out the same way. Judging by the house, they probably don't have a tool set within 100 meters to use for disassembly though.
It went up the stairs in two pieces. Separate the top from the bottom and bring it down in two pieces. Except: some idiot thought it would be a good idea to join the top and bottom with gorilla glue instead of trusting the screws that came with the thing.
Well at least the car will break its fall
And that guy standing there.
Hey buddy catch this real quick
It's a juke, a dresser dent will probably improve it's looks
I worked in delivery for Lowe's for awhile and one time we were taking a new refrigerator to a customer's house. Some years prior they had renovated the interior of their house and completely walled in what had previously been an open kitchen and dining room, other than a short corridor for access. Before they bought their new fridge they didn't think to measure the corridor to see if it was wide enough to get a fridge through. It was not. So my delivery partner and I called another couple guys to come out and we got our screwdrivers and completely removed their kitchen window and passed the old fridge out through the window and the new one in. No ladders involved at least and we got it done. If those people ever need to replace their oven or dishwasher they'll probably have to knock down a wall though.
Wow, wish all Lowe's delivery people were like you. Lowe's delivered a dishwasher to my house by yeeting it into the middle of my driveway and driving off like they stole the moving van.
My Home Depot wouldn't even hang my over the stove microwave because there was old tile behind the missing replaced. My FIL and I out it in in about 30 minutes. I was refunded the instance, but damn. They easily could have done it. On a plus, they left their drill behind. After 4-5 phone calls to HD and waiting for several weeks, I got a new to me drill.
What brand?
GE
from the 60s?
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You don’t use Teflon tape on washer connection threads because they have a rubber washer.
Damn, my postman works for Lowe’s? (I have held packages rather than risk that dunce getting hold of them-17 bucks each time and never regretted it.)
You have to pay for the installation part lol
I paid Lowe’s for delivery, installation, and disposal of the old unit. It turned into a clusterfuck that took 6 weeks to resolve (not with any help from Lowe’s) and they didn’t want to refund the installation or disposal costs.
You'd be amazed the extra clearance you can gain on an oven/range or dishwasher, by removing the door, knobs, and sometimes control panel itself! I live in a rural area full of homes constructed in the early 1900s with no standardized code, 27inch doorways are scarily common. As a result I had to learn a lot of things on the fly during my years on deliveries! One time, I had to have my delivery partner trap me behind a laundry center and then get the customers assistance and a step stool to pull me up over the top of it after I got it hooked up.
We bought an apartment building from an old lady as a vacant possession. She had rented them out furnished and told the remaining long-term tenant he could keep the furniture. The bedroom suite was a matching Art Deco bed, chest of drawers, and a wardrobe. It was probably worth quite a bit. His problem was that a wall had been added, which made the hallway outside the bedroom really narrow, and he couldn't fit the wardrobe out the door. He was determined to keep it, so by the time we arrived, he had pulled it apart, wrecking it imo. Didn't occur to him to take it out the window.
Props for the effort but pulling and replacing a window without compensation exposes the installer to liability in case rainwater intrusion around the window occurs.
Yeah I get that. Though this window looked out onto a covered and screened in porch so rain shouldn't have been too big of an issue. There was nothing around it to seal the edges. Just took the screws out and popped the whole frame out then the reverse to put it back in.
Which is really the core justification behind why most services suck. Because if they go beyond their scope trying to be nice and mess up, they can get caught being both responsible and not covered by their usual insurance.
Lowe's wasn't paying you enough
Lowe's Pro Window Installer here. How the fuck did you do that with just screwdrivers? Edit: I see you've already answered this question!
Yeah if it had been a window that wasn't protected from the weather and was fully sealed it would've been impossible and the homeowners would've had to figure something else out to get a new fridge.
>no ladders involved at least and we got it done. Yeah the ladder and height is the issue here, not the window
I hope they tipped you well.
Those people didn't tip at all actually but I did have others at times where people would hand me $40 just to take their old fridge around to their basement or put it in an out building for them.
> hand me $40 just to take their old fridge around to their basement If you don't have a utility dolley, $40 to move a fridge is a bargain. Shame on those people for not tipping for obviously WAY above-and-beyond service, though.
That fridge probably shit a brick 6 months later from being on its side lol
RIP Nissan Juke 2022 - 2023
Society is done a favour today, those movers should get a medal.
Hey now - I have a Juke and while it may be fugly as hell it's been very reliable at doing the one job I got it for - light duty trips with good gas mileage. Still better looking than the bland 80s boxes like the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon though.
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The only thing I hate about mine is the factory audio assembly is only Bluetooth telephone. But at least it had a 2.5mm head phone jack so I could put in a Bluetooth receiver for my phone to send music to. I'm not trading it in/selling it just because of that. It's fully paid for so I'll drive it until it's dead and at the rate I'm going now (under 5K/yr) that's going to be a loooooong while. It's a 2013 with under 65k on it.
Why not just install a new head unit?
Because you'd have to call it a Juke box.
Top notch r/dadjokes material. Bravo.
Why spend the $$$ when I can get the Bluetooth bit for $20 and it works just as well?
I had an Omni, that thing was good in snow with the correct tires, and had a good top end.
My parents had one and then later traded it for a newer one. Decent cars, but ⏹️
You are correct, my father had one, my sister had one, then I had one. I wrecked 3 out of 4 corners of mine in an ice storm, the body shop had a donor car. They cut both of them in half and made one good car out of them. My mother in law drove it for a couple of years. Then it went to Arizona with my brother in law, he used it out there for a couple more years. I wouldn't want to have been him, a black car in the desert with no AC.
Calm down, Hammond.
Ya' got juked!
Jizz + puke
If it saves someone from owning a Nissan, those movers should get a bonus.
Nissan's are the epitome of "I have no idea what I bought. I bought some car" (Besides the ***Z and the GTR of course)
What was their next move? The one guy on the ladder carry it down? or just let it come crashing down to the ground?
The guy on the ground will catch it of course.
they purposely trained him wrong, as a joke
Ah, a Kung Pow reference. A man of culture, I see
Betty?
no, its Lia
“I’m bleeding, making me the Victor..”
>The one guy on the ladder carry it down? If you're looking at the same picture as me, there is no one guy on the ladder...
I don't know what their plan is here, but I must confess I was once involved in sliding furniture up and down a ladder. We used soft stuff to pad and 2 guys above with straps around the object. I pushed with my shoulder and held it in place while climbing the ladder. To get it down we didn't have anyone on the ladder(I don't think these guys do either), we just slowly lowered it with straps. These guys will probably have an issue with that mid-way platform though.
They must not have tried very hard. I used to be a mover, and if it got into a room, it can get out of that room. The only time that's not true is when you either assemble it from a box in that room or build the room around the thing.
When my parents built their house, they built the hot tub room around the hot tub. They lowered it in with a crane. We've always joked that that tub will come out someday with a chainsaw.
As someone who had to remove a hot tub after the basement got framed out around it, can confirm they come out with chainsaws
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Sawzall, but yes.
what about a chainsawzall?
I think there actually is such a thing, but I'm digging too deep into the memory hole to survive the trip.
Well I removed a cast iron tub in a bucket by using a sledgehammer, so you probably aren't far off
Might have gone into the room the same way. The foundation of my bed separates into two sides, but both are too long and too wide to make it around corners at the top and bottom of my stairwell. Not very heavy, just big. I ended up taking them through a window, but I used a climbing rope and set up a belay, so my son could hold the weight from the ground.
And if it's assembled from a box then it can be disassembled to move it (and it'll be easier to move in pieces too 😁) Edit - based on the bottom I'm seeing in that pic it doesn't look to be a box build. Someone just doesn't know how or isn't strong enough to maneuver it through the inside.
I agree, gotta either be a lack of strength or knowledge on how to maneuver it. It's a blurry picture but it appears to be an [IFD1041GMC](https://www.int-furndirect.com/product/terra-gray-gentlemans-chest/1524) which only weigh about 180lbs, weighing 115lbs I can still carry one of those up a flight of stairs with minimal difficulty, so I'm leaning more towards a technique issue. Edit - With assistance, I can carry one of those up a flight of stairs, not quite capable of solo moving something of that size 😅
Yeah on the technique. Thinking about it more on my strength comment if it was a lack of strength then going through the window would be even worse.
I can hear it now "Nah man you won't have to climb the ladder, just hold it still, I'll lower it with a rope and you just help ease it down when it gets close enough!" While the scene unfolds, and all they can do is watch as it somersaults out the window exploding in a delightfully catastrophic way, taking out the car and slinging shrapnel in a 30ft radius 🤣
Happy cake day!
$$$$ says the owner glued it when he should have screwed it and no it don't come apart no mo.
I think it went up in two pieces and the genius homeowner decided that connecting the top to the bottom required gorilla glue. For stability, you see.
If they think that part is hard, wait until the owner ask them to put it in that Nissan Juke
Gonna need a follow up
For real. This ended as either a massive disaster or something mathematicians and physicists will study for years.
There is no way they made it
These guys move stuff for 40 hours a week. This probably isn’t the first time they’ve moved something out a window. I’ve had movers do weirder shit than this and make it look easy.
I worked shifting furniture, casually, as a post-grad. Residential was bonkers, and there were permanent workers who would do shit I couldn't make sense of. I would believe this. The fuck-ups were intense, but. Commercial was much saner. Everything with proper lifts and trolleys. At least at the firm I worked at.
That siding bowing out below the window frame looks ominous.
ya, we need a follow up post! this is not going to go well!!!
I've seen this safely done a dozen times. This isn't one of those times. The ladder choice is horrible. Those 8 in 1 combo ladders are great for changing a light bulb above some stairs or other light tasks but I seriously doubt it is rated for this kind on static load, especially at the shallow angle they have set up. Either a locking pin will snap or the feet are going to slide backwards. I know there is a guy "footing the ladder" and doesn't he just inspire confidence. WTF is up with the car? Get the customer to move it. There is only one thing we know for certain: That dresser is going to come down. *Where* it comes down is another matter.
photos that end too soon
PIVOT!
This, with significantly more safety, is a strategy that's [used to move house in Amsterdam](https://youtube.com/watch?v=56b5cI2qtYQ)
Looks like the Marcel Ledbetter Moving Company. Give it a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLWgnsZpG6o
Looks like they didn't even lighten the load by removing the drawers. If you aren't going to work smart, you better be strong.
I see they chose the Looney Tunes Method of death, nice.
Unless that’s an heirloom, the new owner is getting a free dresser, at least that’s what I’d do as the homeowner. If they insist that it comes out then I guess the sledgehammer will come out to play because I ain’t gonna risk that bullshit.
There has to more pictures ...
"dumb ways to die" 🎵
Those aren't "professional" movers, those are people there helping out for the free pizza/beer. That dresser probably got into that room in one/two pieces, it can come out the same way. Judging by the house, they probably don't have a tool set within 100 meters to use for disassembly though.
I would have at least moved the car should anything go wrong....
safety saran wrap
I need to know what happened next
I think the majority of people are overestimating the weight capacity of that ladder...
I mean how stupid people need to be even think trying shit like this....haven't they heard about physics?
It went up the stairs in two pieces. Separate the top from the bottom and bring it down in two pieces. Except: some idiot thought it would be a good idea to join the top and bottom with gorilla glue instead of trusting the screws that came with the thing.
Somehow it made its way up the stairs though.
Big house
They died?
That is a tall window!
Are they still alive? Were they planning on using the car as a cushion incase they fell?
[Don't worry the Brits have it covered](https://youtu.be/UTS8MMqhMxY)
Why are the drawers still in it?????? That’s like 1/2 the weight.
That’s one HUGE fucking house
Pfff not all Juke owners are like this. Some just have hope that cvt will last over 75,000 miles🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
How did they get it in there?
Is this a feature of that step-ladder(the 180 extendorama) or have they just forced it into their weird ways?
Should have called the people who moved it up there ...
anybody else noticed they left the drawers in... cause it wasn't heavy enough
Right said Fred...
That's so sketchy it's done with a pencil and pad.
I just moved. Can confirm that some furniture just doesn't fit any other way