In modern high rises, it’s quite common to find apartments and condos that sit several hundred feet in the air. In addition to their staggering elevation, many winding hallways, corridors and doorways need to be navigated before one reaches their front door. Despite all that, plenty of people who live in high rises have large pieces furniture in their homes. There’s no chance a piece of furniture is getting carried up 30, 40 or who-knows-how many flights of stairs. So how are large pieces of furniture moved into high-rise apartments? Here are a few ways.
Furniture Is Often Assembled In-Place
When buying new furniture, many companies will ship their pieces directly to their customers, rather than the customer picking it up themselves at the store.
In turn, the furniture company will ship their pieces in pieces (ha) and offer assembly services – sometimes free, sometimes not.
Therefore, the giant piece of furniture, such as a king size bed frame or dresser, never gets moved in per se.
As one can imagine, the same piece of furniture will need to be disassembled again when moving out! Unless it fits in the category below…
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Furniture Moved Into High-Rise Apartments Is Done Via Elevator
Furniture is most often moved into high rise apartments using the elevator. As you can imagine, there’s no way a couch is being carried up even 10 stories unless someone’s getting paid well to do so. While it may seem obvious, the elevator is used in the vast majority of cases.
But how? How can a big couch or a table fit inside an elevator? Well, many high rise buildings have a freight elevator. This is either an entirely separate elevator specifically meant for moving and such, or a main residential elevator that has slightly larger dimensions than the rest.
Most freight elevators can be identified by having no railings inside and potentially different wall paneling to protect from damage.
High Rise Apartment Buildings Usually Have Loading Docks
Most large apartment buildings will have a separate freight entrance for large trucks and sizable deliveries. There’s usually a loading dock that a delivery truck can back up to, as well.
Even with freight elevators and loading docks, there’s quite a bit of wrestling to get a large piece of furniture into a high rise apartments. Plenty of pieces require multiple to maneuver and carry. Couches are slid, rolled and carried on their ends. Big pieces sometimes barely fit into the elevator. Worst case scenario, a piece won’t fit!
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There Are Other Ways…
This last method of moving large furniture into a high rise is not common, but doable in the right circumstances.
If a resident really wanted to and the building agreed, it’s possible. for certain types of large windows to open. Given the right equipment and permissions, a piece of furniture could in theory be hoisted outside of the buildings and brought inside through a window. Again, this is extremely uncommon and requires a lot of effort, money and luck!
High Rise Parking?
For the ultra-rich, elevator technology has evolved to a whole new level – I’m on fire with these puns.
Here’s a look inside a high rise in Singapore that features “sky parking” – a parking system that hoists your car into your high rise luxury apartment (via CNN), as high up as the 36th floor!
If you ever dreamed of living in a tall building while parking your car in the living room, that actually is possible.
Now You Know!
Moving large pieces of furniture into a high rise apartment is no picnic, but it’s certainly not impossible. There’s an art and a science to maneuvering large items through any building, but it’s done every day all over the world. Who knows, maybe parking the car inside a high rise apartment will become common one day! Doubtful, but we can dream.
