Smart people- Help me figure out if my TV will fit up stairs!

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Nutdotnet

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TV- 50" Widescreen TV.
46" Wide
49" High
24" Deep

And I figure about another inch or so of padding. If nowhere else at least on the screen.

Moving it into a townhome. It will fit through the door without issues.

The tough part-

The living room is upstairs. The stairs go up 7 or 8 steps, then there is a landing (dimensions to follow), after the landing the stairs take a 90 degree turn to the right for another 7 or 8 steps to the 2nd story.

The stairs have 33" (there is a hand-rail which takes up space) of useable width (there is a hand-rail which takes up space). The landing is 36" wide (since there is no handrail) x 39" long.

To sum it up-
Landing- 36"w x 39"l

The TV needs to be able to fit around it.

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm not good with envisioning stuff like this, and I need to know if it will fit BEFORE I pay $$ for movers.

THANKS!

 
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Thru the window. Man taking a solid fragile tv up stairs that curve :/ gl man!

sry im not smart.
 
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Nutdotnet

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Originally posted by: Twista
Thru the window. Man taking a solid fragile tv up stairs that curve :/ gl man!

sry im not smart.
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Window won't work.....living room is on the 2nd story.
 
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uhh.. unless the handrail goes floor to ceiling, won't it almost certainly fit, but you'd have to flip it around above the level of the handrail?

Edit: Hmm I guess there are cases where it may not, but... hmm.... I don't think you're going to get a good answer from here. What you need to do is go tape together some cardboard boxes and try it yourself.
 
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Originally posted by: Nutdotnet
Originally posted by: NutBucket
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Tipping a RPTV is never a good idea.
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Yeah, I know. Never planned on tipping it.
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I figure tipping is probably a given if you're getting up those stairs. Who's moving it? People you hired or the guys from the store you got it from?
 
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Originally posted by: flot
uhh.. unless the handrail goes floor to ceiling, won't it almost certainly fit, but you'd have to flip it around above the level of the handrail?

Edit: Hmm I guess there are cases where it may not, but... hmm.... I don't think you're going to get a good answer from here. What you need to do is go tape together some cardboard boxes and try it yourself.
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That's what I am thinking. May be a good idea to make a template.

And you're right, if the movers can lift it high enough it won't be a problem at all. I guess, if anything I can talk to the movers and see what they say.
 
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Originally posted by: flot
uhh.. unless the handrail goes floor to ceiling, won't it almost certainly fit, but you'd have to flip it around above the level of the handrail?

Edit: Hmm I guess there are cases where it may not, but... hmm.... I don't think you're going to get a good answer from here. What you need to do is go tape together some cardboard boxes and try it yourself.
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That's a very good piece of advice. I'd do that since you could find cardboard boxes basically anywhere.
 
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Nutdotnet

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Originally posted by: bunker
How hard it would be to take the handrail off?
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I looked at that. It looks like a total of six screws. So taking them off would be easy, as long as they would screw back into the drywall then that would give me another 3 inches of play.
 
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I would say pass. I have the same kind of staircase in my townhouse and it's really difficult to accomodate very large objects. I got a queen mattress up the stairs but I doubt a king would fit without really bending the mattress. A TV has no "elasticity" and the problem is getting around the bend. If you are moving an dumb object like a mattress, you can tip the thing in any direction. You could tilt a 46x49x24 object on its side to get around the landing but I wouldn't want to tip over a projection set like that. Too much risk...and yes, you have a weight issue as well.

I'd get a "regular" TV for now and wait for LCD sets to get cheaper in a few years.
 
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Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
I would say pass. I have the same kind of staircase in my townhouse and it's really difficult to accomodate very large objects. I got a queen mattress up the stairs but I doubt a king would fit without really bending the mattress. A TV has no "elasticity" and the problem is getting around the bend. If you are moving an dumb object like a mattress, you can tip the thing in any direction. You could tilt a 46x49x24 object on its side to get around the landing but I wouldn't want to tip over a projection set like that. Too much risk...and yes, you have a weight issue as well.

I'd get a "regular" TV for now and wait for LCD sets to get cheaper in a few years.
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I already HAVE the TV. And I would hate to pass on this place because the TV won't fit. :(

Exact dimensions of the TV.

Unit: 46-1/8" x 50-3/8" x 21-2/3 " (W,H,D)
193 lbs.

It DOES have casters, which does help moving it. Hell, I had a harder time with my old 32" than with the 50"
 
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your TV is exactly 2" under the maximum to make the landing turn lying flat. You have a TV that requires 51" of turning room, and your landing has 53". You will have almost exactly 1" clearance from each corner to the wall @ 45 degrees of rotation.

Of course this assumes 90 degree corners on your landing, which is probably not true.

Physics is fun :)
 
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Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
I would say pass. I have the same kind of staircase in my townhouse and it's really difficult to accomodate very large objects. I got a queen mattress up the stairs but I doubt a king would fit without really bending the mattress. A TV has no "elasticity" and the problem is getting around the bend. If you are moving an dumb object like a mattress, you can tip the thing in any direction. You could tilt a 46x49x24 object on its side to get around the landing but I wouldn't want to tip over a projection set like that. Too much risk...and yes, you have a weight issue as well.

I'd get a "regular" TV for now and wait for LCD sets to get cheaper in a few years.
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Agreed on the king size mattress. TV is much shorter than the mattress though.


How hard would it be to just make a box that size? Shouldn't be too difficult - get a bunch of boxes and just tape them together until they're approximately the same size. I'm thinking it would easily fit.
I'm almost positive it would easily fit. I can't even get a queen size boxspring up my stairs, but had no trouble with dressers, etc. That tv sounds smaller than a couch, etc. Did you get a couch up there? Certainly the couch is longer, almost the same height, but also deeper..
 
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