Modern houses are not made to move old furniture into. While delivering aid parcels for a charity yesterday we found a Sri Lankan family in need of a dining table & chairs. There'd been just such in the charity's distribution shed for a few months so we arranged to deliver it at around 11 this morning. It's a rectangular table, around 70 years old and 32 inches high. The dining area is at the back of the house on a narrow block. We loaded up the table and 7 matching chairs before heading off.
The front door was about a foot narrower than a standard door. Maybe because a mesh security door is cheaper if it's smaller. The corridor was 36 inches wide & the table had to go in on its side. But the brick pillars either side of the approach to the door left us with no wiggle room, so the table couldn't come in that way.
A pathway to the back of the house from the rear of the garage looked a good option until we realised the steel star pickets used as garden stakes would be in the way.
Fortunately there's a door from the garage into the corridor. Swung the table in on its side and moved it towards the front door to make room for the door into the garage to shut.
Then start moving the table on its side down the corridor. But the corridor isn't straight, is it? No, various bedrooms had their closets built into the sides of the corridor at different stages along its length. Back to the front door with the thing, this time to stand it on its end, still side-on.
Even then it was quite tricky to manoeuvre this awkward shape down an even more awkwardly-shaped corridor. We eventually made it to the tiled area and moved it into place. Very pleased not to have had any of the rusty castors on the table legs come into contact with either the carpet or the gyprock plaster walls.