Moving a, heavy, countertop

@urbandad: when you have spent 25 years and 5 months supervising people who you think would have enough common sense to perform mundane tasks, you learn to never underestimate the ability of some people to screw things up. if the same people don’t understand why it is important to bend the nails over on a scrap piece of wood that you are tossing on the ground, understand why it is important to use primer when painting, or even stir the paint, how can we trust them to carry the counter the correct way?

homeowners on here wrongly assume that the people they hire know what they are doing. it could not be further from the truth. when hiring the sort of people who take one off jobs like the OP is looking for, the customer has to be prepared with the knowledge and has to watch the workers and tell them how to do it.

i am going to put another post on here in a moment. wait ’till you read it – its a winner.

stevecym

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Hi. We have mostly moved and one of the final pieces to come over is a heavy, prob 350lbs, countertop and 3 sections of drawers that liveunderneath. Does anyone have recommendations for a person/s to move these final items? Thanks!

hkapstein | 4 years and 7 months ago

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I did this once, had to get a 375 lb countertop up a few flights. A couple buddies helped me out and we did it. When we started, one guy said, “this is either going to go perfectly, or end in catastrophic failure.” I’m pleased to say the former outcome was realized. I’d call a moving company.

stevecym | 4 years and 7 months ago

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if you hire people less experienced, know that carrying a counter top is similar to carrying sheets of glass. we do not hold it flat as it will collapse under its own weight. the counter gets stood on edge and carried upright – kind of the way one would carry a sheet of drywall into a narrow door. even the smaller 2’x5′ pieces i bought into my own house, on my own, i carried this way. had i held them flat or got a helper and we each took an end and held it flat, it might have cracked in the middle.

i am not really experienced with this myself. i know it from handling glass and from watching the counter guys set the stuff on cabinets when i used to do that work.

hkapstein | 4 years and 7 months ago

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This is a very good point Steve. I didn’t even think about this because it just seemed so obvious to us to handle it this way, but I agree that carrying it flat would be recipe for disaster.