If you are planning a move or a global rearrangement of furniture in a house or apartment, and there are no funds to hire movers, but there is one more pair of free hands - then a furniture trolley will come to your aid. She, as a rule, does not have a handle and additional straps. She has 4 wheels and a rigid base. Small in size, it will become your irreplaceable assistant for moving heavy bulky items.
How safe is it
Furniture trolleys come in a variety of sizes and require a fairly high load. It will not be difficult to transport a wardrobe or a sofa together on it. The main thing is to correctly place a piece of furniture on its surface based on its declared carrying capacity.
Can a furniture trolley move tall items like bookcases or long sofas?
The furniture trolley will perfectly cope with any task. A bookcase, a sofa, a high rack - everything can be easily transported on a furniture trolley if necessary. It will help save energy and significantly speed up the work progress.
Where are the shopping carts
- The first and easiest way to become the owner of a trolley is to make it yourself from thick boards and special wheels, if all the necessary tools are at hand. But you will have to make a number of calculations in order to understand how much mass your invention can withstand.
- The second and easiest way is to purchase a shopping cart at the store. Its price starts from 600 rubles, before buying, you must carefully read its technical characteristics so that it does not break from unforeseen severity.
- And finally, the last way is to rent a cart. Ladder options cost from 300 rubles per day of use, and more expensive, but comfortable metal models with a handle will cost 500 rubles. But you will have to leave a deposit of 5,000 rubles.
Loading methods
- A minimum of two people are required to load the furniture onto the trolley.
- Before loading, make sure that the size of the item loaded on it fits into all corners and aisles. If this is not the case, reconsider the possible arrangement of furniture on the surface of the trolley.
- Calculate the loading height so that a doorframe or bulky chandelier does not become an insurmountable obstacle.
- A heavy load falls on the one who carries out the loading. The second person holds the cart with his foot, and with his hands helps to hoist the lifted edge of the object onto it.
- After placing the item on the cart, it is necessary to align it so that the main center of gravity is in the middle of the cart.
- If a dresser or other piece of furniture has a ledge, make sure that it twists off the trolley without breaking the horizontal structure.
- If the furniture has legs, especially twisted and long, then you need to lay it upside down.
- When loading onto the sofa trolley, look at the back of the sofa. If it is stiff, then feel free to put it on the trolley, and if it is represented only by a frame, then you need to give additional rigidity. For this, the back wall is reinforced with plywood, or a pair of boards are attached to the surface of the trolley to create an additional frame.
- Clear the floor of toys and wires as they can create unnecessary complications.
- It is unlikely that it will be possible to roll a cart with furniture on it into the car along the exposed boards, here you have to work with your hands.
