Using a Heavy Duty H Furniture Dolly to Easily Move a Sofa by Yourself. For the Best Jenks Movers call Safe Transport Moving. Link to our Safe Transport Moving Website: safetransportmoving.com/
How do you keep the H dolly from sliding out when you come to door strips, a slight downstep ledge and having to push up a U-haul truck ramp? I see a lot of different dolly systems but they all have the potential to slide out from under heavy furniture. Any thoughts would be helpful for us DIYers.
The Heavy Duty H dolly has ribbed rubber strips on top of the wood rails to help keep furniture from slipping or sliding. The heavier the item the more weight that sits on the dolly which helps hold it down, gravity is sort of your friend at that point. As far as ledges or high spots that you may need to roll over, you can push down on the back of the sofa which will lighten up the front to help it go over the door threshold etc. If you push down hard enough on the back of the sofa you can raise the front of the sofa up by pivoting it off of the dolly itself. You can do this at the bottom of the Moving truck ramp to help keep it from scraping on the ramp. Additionally, the Heavy duty H dolly has taller, wider and softer wheels that raise the sofa higher off the ground that helps prevent the ends from scraping. However if the ramp is short and steep and the sofa is long it will be difficult to not have it scrape on the bottom ends of the sofa. You could put a folded up moving blanket down on the concrete at the base of the ramp and roll the dolly over it and up the ramp, so that if it does scrape the ground it will drag against the moving blanket rather than the ground preventing damage to the sofa. Finally, you could spin the sofa sideways in front of and at the bottom of the truck ramp and push it up that way until you get past the top of the ramp and into the truck and then spin it however you like to roll it into the truck where you want.
You positioned the four wheel dolly the wrong way. It should have been positioned going length wise on the sofa, not width wise. I'm a retired mover with over twenty-five years experience and have never nor never seen another mover position a four wheel dolly on a sofa like you did.
Henry, I agree with you that it is better to position the dolly (skateboard-we like to call them) lengthwise because it better matches the shape of the sofa and is more stable overall-and is the way I would normally position it. However, it will work either way, and the only reason I positioned it sideways (this time) was because the sofa was an inexpensive one that was being used for staging/decorating a model apartment, and did not have much strength or support on the back other than the top and bottom where I could feel a board. The center of the back felt like it only had something like cardboard and I didn't want it to cave in from the weight of the sofa-even though the sofa was light. It was not a sturdy sofa, it was an inexpensive one-aka cheap. When moving flimsy, cheap made or even expensive antique furniture, sometimes modifications or extra precautions need to be made in order to prevent any damage.
@@safetransportmoving5697 No, the way you did it would be too awkward and hard to get through doors. Instead of positioning dolly like you did my crew would just carry it, the sofa would be too unbalanced to transport safely rocking back and forth.I understand how some sofa backs won't have the support needed and have ran into that problem. Again we would just carry it at that point
