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I bought one of these over a decade ago from Costco. It had a defect in it but I never really pursued returning it. I had no clue how I'd get it out of my house
by Yhippa 7y ago
I bought one of these over a decade ago from Costco. It had a defect in it but I never really pursued returning it. I had no clue how I'd get it out of my house by myself. Use a chainsaw or machete to cut it into blocks and then toss it out the window and then take it to the dump? It was really heavy. Much heavier than normal mattresses. At least it seemed much more flexible to bend around corners.
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoI once had a loveseat that I couldn't get out of a studio apartment without moving almost everything. Since I was a bit bored at the time, I slowly carved up the entire thing with a Swiss Army knife w/ the saw & scissors extensions. Was actually kind of fun.
- jethro_tell 7y agoI had a friend who moved into an old oddly shaped rental. When we went to move the heavy stuff in, the big front picture window was out for repair and the guys said we could move anything through it while they went to lunch. In the end, we spent an afternoon chopping couches and dressers and such into pieces and hauling it to the dump. Didn't really think that through.
- zabzonk 7y agoIn Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1970s, a friend of mine inherited a flat and contents but no money. It was an extremely cold winter and he ended up chopping half the furniture to pieces (it was the typical hideous stuff you got in flats in Edinburgh back then) and burning it in the fire-place to keep warm.
- dredmorbius 7y agoProbably mostly natural materials. That'd be risky now.
- dan-robertson 7y agoAt least in Europe most furniture uses fire retardant materials. But the chipboard that lots of things are made of will burn ok if you get it hot enough
- dredmorbius 7y agoI'm thinking plastics in everything: foams, fabrics, coverings, resins, glues. Even fasteners and structure.
- buckminster 7y agoRisky is right. Even wooden furniture is treated with chemicals (flame retardants, anti-fungals, etc.) that are noxious when burned.
- svieira 7y agoI once tore up a recliner sofa with a crowbar and tossed the pieces out of a third story window (I didn't get it in, and there was no way it was going out the door in its then-present configuration).
- gbronner 7y agoI had a tenant who did this to a batch of furniture. Wound up in the front yard where it got nice and wet in the rain and then froze. Made it even harder to get rid of it.