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How do you get a 35' 3" roll of carpet upstairs?
NeoBlackdog
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And you don't have any help? With a little 'Yankee Ingenuity'...
It took about an hour to construct the ramps and supports and all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it. I'm not sure what that roll weighs, but it's 423 square feet of nice thick Karastan carpet. Plenty heavy!
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No neighbor kids, period! And I like it that way! Wasn't in a hurry, other than trying to get that area done before my wife moves up here at the end of July. I'm new to the area and don't really know many folks yet, at least not well enough to have 'em over to help do something like that.
I really kind of enjoy a challenge such as this presented. I know lots of contractors that would go to their clients and inform them of a 'problem' on a job site. If I ran into something like that I never used the word 'problem'. I referred to it as 'an opportunity for a creative solution'.
I think that’s how they built the Pyramids.
Nice place! Good luck with your relocation.
Lucky it didn't fall off.. take out the big screen tv
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well yeah, that's one way,,,,,,
smart thinkin
"With a little 'Yankee Ingenuity'..."
Great Work-A-Round"! Down here it would be "Southern Engineering"! 😀
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GENIUS!!!! That is awesome!
In the 5th picture you’re looking down the length of the roll at a nice big window. I would have slid the window up and come in that way straight up the stairs. It also would have been my excuse to buy a nice cable come along and attach it to the plywood floor you’re standing on as the anchor point.
Good job
Yeah, okay. But do you know how to copy a form of identification. You know us folks out in the sticks are stupid....
Excellent idea BTW!
Thought about that. That window is still 5' below where the carpet needed to be and I still would have had to build some kind of platform to support it as it went through said window and then angled up the stairs. I also didn't want to risk scuffing up the window frame with the backing on the carpet.
I worked hard for my money, sometimes now I let my money work for me........hired help comes to mind 😀
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The less money I spend on hired help the more money I can spend on guns and fishin' gear! Might even save up and buy a new pair of socks! If I'm feelin' real flush then mebbe some new skivvies, too!
Whoo doggy!
A simple and elegant solution. Wish I'd thought of it earlier! Then I'd only have to spend 5 hours seaming it all back up!😜
Good work.
I find it hard to believe that no one pointed out that it's only 12" the other way. Good job!
That’s how the pioneers built log cabins.
Yep that would have happened for sure. That carpet backing is rough stuff.
Aaaw that dont look heavy, ouch, my back!
12 inches? Or did you mean 12 feet?
your way sure worked and I don't know how heavy that roll is but you got it in the house , so why not just lean the roll up against the landing and push it up , might have need a push stick to help get it up all the way but seems that would have been quicker and easier
Good job, smart engineering!
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I like it Steve. Smart. But I gotta chide ya for not just lugging it up those stairs. Harden up! :)
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Whut???????
A trip to the nearest labor pool and you pick the two biggest amigos and pay em 50 ea for one hour
he carried it into the house why not stand the darn roll upright with the top of the roll against the land and just shove it up , have a push stick close by incase he needed a little more reach
Lol, apparently you've never carried a roll of carpet. That thing weighs 100s of lbs. Prob over 300. Carpet is HEAVY.
At my age and being a kripple I just hire youngins' for that kind of work. Since I can't look up holding heavy things over head is a recipe for being brained by what ever object happens to be overhead.
he said in HIS Last post with pictures that it took " all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it."
SO I'm SAYING ( IF HE COULD MOVE IT, as HE posted ) ,,, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SHOVE IT UP TO THE LANDING ,,, is that so hard to understand ??????????
$500 worth of wood to move $200 worth of carpet. 😋
If it works, it isn't stupid!
Good job.
Merc
Because I was by myself and the roll is probably pushin' 400 pounds. Weren't gonna be no 'pushin' it up'!
I got it in the house using a carpet cart and a hand truck.
Let me clarify... Once I had it at the bottom of the ramps and started pushing it up said ramps it took all of ten minutes.
It'd damn near be worth it to me to haul it back down stairs and buy you a plane ticket up here so I could sit and drink a 12 pack of beer while you show me how it's done! LOL!
So many "I'd of dun it this away" and "why didn't you do this instead" for as much as a lot of you guys demean FB and the users of it, you sure seem to do the same stuff you beeyach about here... Why not just congratulate the man for getting it done on his own? A little kidding is par for the course here in this forum, but the know it all attitude is really a turn off to post asking for help or showing how a problem was solved... @NeoBlackdog you sir did great! The heck with all the naysayers, imho... rant off.
Gent showed me how they would raise logs when building a cabin. Two sloped posts like you used for the carpet. Attach end of the rope to the top of the landing slip the end of the rope under the middle of the load, bring it back to the top of the landing, pull. Acts as a compound pulley to roll the load up the sloping posts.
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That was one of my original ideas but I didn't have what I felt were good enough anchor points at the top.
I would have used doubled up 2x4's as a spreader to attach the two rope ends and a single point in the middle of that to attach a block and tackle.
Good Job!
Bottomline its up and where you wanted it to be..............................You are the man!
Hey.............the wood used might have been scrap laying around.