How to maneuver a wing back chair through a narrow door
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2018
- Wasted an hour and got stuck trying to do it without trying this approach first. Took photo of chair, made cardboard model of chair & door, figured maneuvering with the model, then got it through in minutes. Hope it helps someone in same predicament.
Googled "How to get a chair through a doorway" and WAS NOT expecting to find someone do exactly this. Thank you so freaking much.
I am here 3 years later also flabbergasted this video exists after searching for the exact same thing. The internet is undefeated.
This video easily deserves a spot in the UA-cam hall of fame. Thank you for making it.
You deserve an Medal of Honor for doing the public service of posting this! Thank you!!!!!
It’s been hours since I got my chair through the door thanks to this video and I’m still riding the high. You are the best!
Literally EVERYTIME I need to move a chair I have to reference this video, please don’t ever take it down
😂😂😅
Me too…so I’ll leave it for posterity or as long as UA-cam allows
I am so grateful for this video. We would not have gotten our wing back chair out of a room without this video.
I knew this monuver. But I forgotten, so because of you I finished my task, thank you. Respect for the cardboard demo, brilliant!
Glad it helped. I was afraid of forgetting myself, hence the post.
Thank you so much for your video....I couldn't have accomplished the task without it....KUDOS!!
Are you kidding me? You're an actual super hero ❤
Thank you so much, this worked! I love that you made a scale model 😂 Industrial design for the win
You are fabulous. Wish I had found this last night before I exhausted myself.
This is now one of my favorite UA-cam videos, thank you for doing this demonstration
Thank you so much 🙏
God bless you.
That was awesome, managed to get my recliner through the door all by myself. Thanks and the cardboard cutout was a brilliant idea!
struggled with this for no less than an hour before finding your video! thank you so much! I got my massive wingback chair through an even smaller door than yours on my RV. IT WORKS! I did have to play this on .75 speed to see that second move there though. Thanks for getting us out of a jam!
Thank you. This helped us allot to get our recliner out of the bedroom much faster.
OMGsh! Husband is out of town and I could NOT figure out how to get it through my doorway. Took a chance to look it up & your video was the first that popped up. Thank you, thank you so much!! 💪🏻👍🏻😁
YOU WIN THE INTERNET! Excellent video
I tried this for at least an hour, but still couldn't get it thru the den's doorway by myself. But THEN.. I finally figured it out! 😃 Ok First, I removed the den's door (its Very Easy and it takes less than 1 minute) Then, I laid the chair down sideways, reclined it and *Voilà* easily maneuvered it thru.. 👍😉
Thank you! Worked great.
Thank u, I now have a space for the Xmas tree!! Muchly appreciated 👍
Thank you !!!!!
Very useful presentation - thanks!!!
Very helpful! I got the chair in there, but could not remember how I did it. This video saved me from myself and frustration!!!!!!!
Jarvis S. Brinson Thanks for letting me know.
this SAVED ME . thankyou!!
Here I am, again, never glad this down for the love of God.
Yesss!!!!! It worked. Thanks for sharing.
You’re video saved the day!!
So very helpful!!!! Thank you!!!
Blessings on your house
THANK YOU!!!!
My hero
Same comment as a year ago 😂 must be true
Absolutely fucking perfect. Worked in one shot . THANK YOY
Glad it’s still helping folk. Appreciate the feedback.
A true hero
Thanks dude
perfect!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I just bought a chair that’s slightly too big for the doorway! Hopefully this helps!!!!
Fingers crossed for you. I was getting my chair out of a room so I knew it had got in somehow, so there had to be a way to get it out in one piece. The reverse may not always be true.
This is a great help! Can you provide the measurements of the chair and your door?
Door 29”
Chair
30” wide (wings & arms)
30” front to back
10” floor to underside (legs)
26” floor to top of arms *
42” floor to top of wings
Technique should work for chair of almost any reasonable width but is limited by the 26” floor to top of arms and any other dimension approaching door width after you’ve wiggled the first leg through. You don’t really need a 3d model…you could just cut out a silhouette of the side view of the chair from card and practice wiggling that through your actual door.
Witchcraft!
Can you provide me with the measurements of the chair and measurements of the door. This will help me decide whether my chair will fit through thank you
Chair 30”. Door 29”. May cope with bigger difference than 1”, since it didn’t feel tight when we followed the sequence. Good luck. If you have luck with bigger difference please post.
Realized it’s not the width of the chair that set the limit. Look at the position on the video once it’s successfully half way through the doorframe. The limit is for getting through is set by the distance from the back leg to a straight line between the top of the chair back and the front edge of the chair with the seat cushion removed if possible. For my chair that distance was 26” compared to 29” doorframe. Even if chair had been say 36” wide, provided leg to that line is 26” it would work.
Aaargh! So close! We have no space on the left of the door. It is just about flush with the wall on both sides on the left (inside and out). Right side of the door is tight on the outside and fine on the inside. Any ideas? Really would appreciate help please.
I didn’t keep my cardboard model to play around with, so can only recommend that you try the same process. Take a photo of your chair side on. Print it off at a size you can reasonably represent your particular problem ( say width of chair about 6” or 150mm), then trace on stiff card or poster board. Build the rest of the chair, door frame, and in your case the walls to the same scale. Then try and thread it through. (Took me about an hour, but I’d wasted a couple of hours struggling with the real chair, and since the leg didn’t unscrew was about to saw a couple off). In case you are not used to drawing to scale:
Model door width=
Model chair width x
Measured real door width /
Measured real chair width.
(Similar for scaled wall locations relative to door frame).
If it can be done at all I expect it will only work if the back of the chair to the wall(s) closest to the door frame.
Good luck. If it works maybe post your own video and we can post links to each other.
@@kimdyson4034 thank you very much for your detailed reply. I will definitely try the model idea.
But my wing back chair isn't made of cardboard?
jk, love the creativity
I think you did more work making the cardboard representation then you would’ve done just moving the chair!
Walkswith Might: I needed my wife to help me manoevring and after an hour failing to get it through she was struggling to believe it was possible, except for the fact that we had gotten it into the room somehow a few months earlier. It took a couple of hours to photo the chair and trace the outline onto cardboard etc. but once we saw how we’d done it with the model we got it through in minutes. I suspect if we’d just continued to struggle with the real chair one of us would have taken a saw to the legs.