Improvisors and noodlers help me out!

tinknal · #1 01/14/10, 10:55 AM

I need to replace my washer and dryer. They are in the bathroom. The problem is that to get them in and out I need to remove the toilet, UNLESS I can find some kind of conveyance on wheels that is narrow enough to pass by the toilet and can lift the appliances high enough to clear the top of the toilet tank. If one could rent such a device I would do it, but I've never seen such a thing. Any other ideas?

DQ · #2 01/14/10, 11:12 AM

I would just remove the toilet tank or toilet. just two bolts. get a new wax ring for when you replace it although that is probably not essential as long as it is intact. its no biggie. it would take you longer to drive somewhere to rent something or to build something,then it would to just move the toilet.

I suppose if are they completely toasted you could try dismantling them into small enough peices to remove them, but it would be easier to move the toilet I think.

Cornhusker · #3 01/14/10, 11:13 AM

Maybe get a couple big ol boys to just lift them up and carry them out?

DaleK · #4 01/14/10, 11:13 AM

Ummm...
Why do you need a cart? Any reasonably strong fellow should be able to lift a dryer or washer over the top of a toilet tank, or two weak ones.

MushCreek · #5 01/14/10, 11:14 AM

Washers and dryers aren't that heavy- two men can lift one easily. If you don't have two men handy, the toilet is only two bolts, plus the water connection. You replace the wax seal when you re-install the toilet.

tinknal · #6 01/14/10, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by DaleK

Ummm...
Why do you need a cart? Any reasonably strong fellow should be able to lift a dryer or washer over the top of a toilet tank, or two weak ones.

The trouble with this is that the lifters need to make a right angle turn but the appliance cannot make the same turn. When the appliance passes through the doorway The people carrying it would have to be on two adjoining sides of the appliance. It would be like two people carrying a long beam while standing next to each other at one end of the beam.

DaleK · #7 01/14/10, 11:26 AM

Where are you getting the new appliances from? If they're brand-new, get them delivered. The delivery guys have the harnesses and slings to do it in no time. Otherwise, it still shouldn't be hard. One man should be able to lift them long enough to make the corner.

uncle Will in In. · #8 01/14/10, 12:30 PM

Hey Tinknal, get the person who engineered that setup in the first place and find out what their plan for removal of the washer and dryer might have been. By the way, how long have you lived there??

I'm only teasin' <>Unk

tinknal · #9 01/14/10, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by uncle Will in In.

. By the way, how long have you lived there??

I'm only teasin' <>Unk

Long enough to design and engineer a bathroom!

Long story short, it was a matter of setting it up this way, moving a window, or not having everything we wanted. Complicated by the fact I scored a free whirlpool and wanted to make it fit.I knew this would arise from time to time.

fantasymaker · #10 01/14/10, 01:52 PM

Ahhh Grasshopper the device you seek is at hand.

We call them teen agers, brother in laws and neighbors..... might take 4 or more but what the heck they will make more!

7thswan · #11 01/14/10, 02:09 PM

Ya, they'll have to hand them off to the other guys ont the otherside of the toilet. Buy Beer, it will help.

tamsam · #12 01/14/10, 02:14 PM

We always lifted one side of whatever we were moving and sit it on a old straw broom. Then do the other side the same way and you have a sled to slid it on. That won't work for getting it over the toilet but sure works for sliding. Good luck moving them. Sam

uncle Will in In. · #13 01/14/10, 02:20 PM

Sounds like a one case job you got going there. I don't thing a six pack will get them around that square corner. <>Unk

watcher · #14 01/14/10, 02:21 PM

Disconnecting, moving and replacing a toilet isn't that difficult but it is a pain in the rump and can be a bit nasty. I much rather get several people and lift the W&D, even if I had to cook dinner for all of them.

ninny · #15 01/14/10, 02:35 PM

Find a couple of pretty good size guys and tell them that you dropped a $50 bill behind the w/d somewhere and if they can get it out they can have it. When they have the w/d out and there's no $50, just give them the $50 and tell them that you must've been mistaken and while they're there can they help you put the new w/d in place.

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uncle Will in In. · #16 01/14/10, 02:48 PM

HEY EVERYBODY <> Tinknal asked for HELP. Everyone of us have only given him some cocamammie ADVICE.
This just goes to show how wide a gap there is between HELP and ADVICE. Not one of us offered to HELP. I am sorely ashamed. Tink, we'll all try to meet at your resturant Sat morning. <>UNK

kvr28 · #17 01/14/10, 02:51 PM

these work great, you are using your body not your arms

http://www.amazon.com/Above-All-L749.../dp/B00005TPUZ

watcher · #18 01/14/10, 03:32 PM

I just had a thought. . .a one word solution; sawsall! Just cut the the W&D into pieces. Its all so simple when you think outside the box.

Curtis B · #19 01/14/10, 03:40 PM

Screw an eyelet into the ceiling, run a rope through it, put straps around washer, attach to rope, hoist washer over toilet, set back down. Might be easier to move the toilet though. But, think of all the fun things you can do with an eyelet in the ceiling and a rope and a whirlpool bath.

TK04 · #20 01/14/10, 03:47 PM

When we moved a really large fridge unit in that didn't fit through a door properly, my husband got on his hands and knees, had his brother rest the fridge on my husbands back and crawled through the doorway. I don't know if that will help at all but just another way to look at things.