Getting furnaces up and down stairs in one piece?

I brought this boiler up from the basement using two sheets of plywood on the stairs, just make sure the bottom sheet lays on top of the top sheet so that the tasistion goes smoothly as the furnace passes from the bottom to the top sheet.

Then on the upper floor lay a strip of old carpet top side down, to slide the furnace outdoors. If the furnace is located some ways from the stairs you can use 3 short pieces of pipe, I've found that plastic works just as good as metal pipe. Using a jack lift the head end, insert one pipe, push the furnace ahead.

Just before the furnace over balances itself insert the 2nd pipe, push the furnace ahead, then insert the 3rd pipe the 1rst pipe used will now be free to use again continues until you have the furnace in location.

While the furnace is near the over centering point on that center pipe you can adjust your direction that you want to travel, before inserting the next pipe.

The stairs are a bit trickier to negotiate, planks or plywood certainly helps. From the top floor if there is a window that opens, I open the window then set a couple of 2 x 4s across the open window frame to anchor my come a long. Make sure the anchor is located at the lowest part of the window frame.

This waste oil hot water boiler came up from the Birnie house basement with out help, next week its going back down.

Originally Posted by BarrenRealms007

Third time is the charm, you should be tired of moving this thing around by now.. In your 1st post about taking them apart is about the best way to get an old one out of a basement. At least you know the wireing by heart now. Give me a call if you run into a problem again.

When I moved this thing from Birnie left the liquid to air heat exchanger installed in the plenum. Is there a more modern fan relay to kick on the fan from my forced air furnace which I'm going to leave in place.

Next year I'll install hot water heat under the floor, all I really need to complete this is the PEX expander. But I've been a bad boy robbing the piggy bank for my camera project.

How did I gap that, disassembling the furnace would be the most economical way of removing a furnace from the basement. Just hope that its an old gas and not an oil oil furnace. That black soot finds its way into everything and clings worse than **** to a blanket.

Think I would pass on an oil furnace at any amount of money offered.

Good link Mechanic. I've used a StairKing model for quite a number of projects, around 600 lbs/load (although I believe they still make models with a 1200 LB. capacity). Well worth the money for going UP stairs. If the machine is overloaded, a brief break will allow the DC motor to cool down and resume working. The batteries hold a charge for more than a reasonable amount of use. There are much better/faster options for going DOWN, however.

if the person has an outside entrance to the basement you can tie a rope around it hook it up to your truck and pull it up on some plywood worked for me many times. make sure you have a 4x4 thou or else the wheels will just spin

I brought this boiler up from the basement using two sheets of plywood on the stairs, just make sure the bottom sheet lays on top of the top sheet so that the tasistion goes smoothly as the furnace passes from the bottom to the top sheet.

Oh...... My...... Gosh. *smacks forehead*

What a stupidly beautifully simple idea that never entered my mind. Unbelievable. *Shakes head*

Originally Posted by newattitude

Oh...... My...... Gosh. *smacks forehead*

What a stupidly beautifully simple idea that never entered my mind. Unbelievable. *Shakes head*

Forgot to mention tag two nails halfway into the corners of your top sheet to keep it in place, also for tugging and pulling you could build a windlass out of wood.

Build the windlass in an A-Frame, instead of using this apparatus vertically as seen on old water wells place it horizontally against the door frame as the rope becomes taunt it will hold the windlass in place. Make sure to pad the bottom with old carpet.

If you lay a loop of rope under the object your pulling so that it may attach to the rear of it, essentially you have built yourself a portable rail line as the rope or cable becomes tight the heavy object being moved has no chance to dig in. The object being moved will ride on top of the tight rope or cable.

When ever I had to winch a car onto my trailer I would hook the cable under the car as far back as I could, this way those ugly cross members would ride the cable onto the deck instead of snagging onto the deck. When using a winch truck this procedure allowed me to double deck two cars.

Sometimes it is difficult to get my head bent to the problems you folks run into as I have always dealt in heavy scrap, anything heavy coming out of a basement the house was set for demolition and taking out a wall was of no consequence.

Windlass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I removed a big one years ago with a HD hand truck and a come along. Afterwards I thought about the "what if's".
What if the cable snapped or come along came loose and that thing let go?
What if the stairs collapsed under the large amount of weight?
The stairs turned out to be the biggest concern. After I did it, I checked the stairs and saw how old they were and with no real support under them.
Be careful.

Originally Posted by gamedayron

if the person has an outside entrance to the basement you can tie a rope around it hook it up to your truck and pull it up on some plywood worked for me many times. make sure you have a 4x4 thou or else the wheels will just spin

The art of moving heavy objects is akin to Goliath and the giant, the little man wins. Anyhow with the proper rigging using one or more blocks in your tackle you could use a riding lawn mower instead of a truck.

Sled dogs are capable of pulling seven times their body weight all day long, now for the champions.

Some Dog Bytes: The heaviest single pulls recorded in Alaska occurred at previous Fur Rendezvous events. Two St. Bernards in the heavyweight class, Susitna (the father) and Kashwitna (the son), pulled an incredibly 5,220 pounds each.

Alaska State Championship Dog Weight Pull

Originally Posted by gustavus

Sometimes it is difficult to get my head bent to the problems you folks run into as I have always dealt in heavy scrap, anything heavy coming out of a basement the house was set for demolition and taking out a wall was of no consequence.

Those are the best jobs! Last two cleanups I did were homes that were purposely burned to the ground. Then I came along with the skidsteer, fork attachment, fork extension and chain. Slid the extension on while my helper got down in the basement and hooked onto scrap and I lifted it out.