Moving a stone slab up stairs

[Other Daniel]

Chuff me. You lot way overthink simple grunt & crack on jobs.

A classic mountain from a molehill.

 

[daf45]

Get Fat Jack and Grunter round there then. What could possibly go wrong.

 

[bigegg]

It's a shame your not closer to Salisbury, iam sure there are a few locals still about who know about moving stone.

They do get to practice every six months, when the clocks change.

 

[brightspark]

Chuff me. You lot way overthink simple grunt & crack on jobs.

not only heavy work virtually any job

 

[armalites]

There was a similar stone table in several of the houses I lived in when at Bradford Uni.

We assumed they were sacrifical alters. I assume in these enlightened times you can appease the gods outside?

It so when it rains the blood washes away

 

[Farside]

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut the corpse into six pieces. Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs...

Apart from the teeth, apparently.

 

[Farside]

Butcher’s cellar discovered under Dodworth shop

A TRADITIONAL butcher’s cellar has been discovered underneath a Dodworth shop where renovation works are taking place.Th... Local News News Barnsley South Yorkshire

www.barnsleychronicle.com

That must be a Victorian fluro light, then.

 

[Farside]

I'm leaning more and more to the 'one step at a time' approach

That's how I got my 65" telly up the stairs. Still in its box, just in case.
The stairs weren't the real problem - that came when lifting the buffgre onto the shelf.

 

[Beeezer]

Six pages! Amazing….

 

[mangocrazy]

Lift the floorboards above it, hire a small UNIC crane, ensure floor is sturdy enough to support it and lift it through the joists, pull the riggers in and drive it out on the UNIC.

Most difficult part would be starting it up and leaving it on autorun.

I did consider that, but the amount of disruption involved would be enormous. Plus I'm not convinced the floor would support the weight of crane + slab, and I'm not keen to find out.

 

[gaz1]

I did consider that, but the amount of disruption involved would be enormous. Plus I'm not convinced the floor would support the weight of crane + slab, and I'm not keen to find out.

how do you think we fit steel girders in on wood flooring

its use of acrows and beam lifts first pic alone the steel beam is sat on the lifts and 2nd pic shows why

 

[slim_boy_fat]

how do you think we fit steel girders in on wood flooring

its use of acrows and beam lifts first pic alone the steel beam is sat on the lifts and 2nd pic shows why

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Maybe the room/area above is carpeted and chock-a-block with furniture?

I'd be looking at cutting it in half [I know @mangocrazy doesn't want to, but sometimes 'needs must' ] and building a central supporting pier in the end location. Then drill and peg the halves back together along with resin in the joint. Properly done, I reckon the joint would be almost invisible once weathered in. Should render it doable with less manpower?

 

[mangocrazy]

how do you think we fit steel girders in on wood flooring

its use of acrows and beam lifts first pic alone the steel beam is sat on the lifts and 2nd pic shows why

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Not a snowball's chance in hell. My wife would have me strung up on one of those acrows if I attempted anything like that. This is a family home we're talking about, not a total renovation project.

 

[mangocrazy]

Maybe the room/area above is carpeted and chock-a-block with furniture?

I'd be looking at cutting it in half [I know @mangocrazy doesn't want to, but sometimes 'needs must' ] and building a central supporting pier in the end location. Then drill and peg the halves back together along with resin in the joint. Properly done, I reckon the joint would be almost invisible once weathered in. Should render it doable with less manpower?

Still not keen, but must admit it is a viable (and easier) solution. If (for whatever reason) getting it up the stairs in one piece is not possible, it's a plan B.

 

[sg66]

I'm beginning to think the stone will be in the same place long after the house has gone

 

[RichardM]

Good idea about contacting people who specialise in removals and moving heavy objects. You've summed up the difficulties very accurately. I'm leaning more and more to the 'one step at a time' approach as well. I'm not ready to try moving it yet, as I want to to take it out of the cellar and lay it in its intended resting place in one sequence, and that resting place isn't built yet. I intend to use it as a garden table top, sat on a brick plinth.

Sorry to raise everyone's interest prematurely, but it will be a few months yet.

I'd get the stone out before building a base / plinth in case it cracks in handling.

 

[Bravheart]

Still not keen, but must admit it is a viable (and easier) solution. If (for whatever reason) getting it up the stairs in one piece is not possible, it's a plan B.

Plan A should be to buy a stone elsewhere. This is going to cost more than it's worth.

 

[mangocrazy]

Plan A should be to buy a stone elsewhere. This is going to cost more than it's worth.

Nah. The only reason I'm doing this is because I already have it. And have you recently priced up stone slabs of this size?

 

[mangocrazy]

I'd get the stone out before building a base / plinth in case it cracks in handling.

If it cracks it will get used as paving and I'll cast a concrete slab for the table top.

 

[mangocrazy]

I'm beginning to think the stone will be in the same place long after the house has gone

Patience, grasshopper...