Pavement doors and through-lounges: sofas into Chorley terraces

On the terraced streets around Eaves Lane, Canterbury Street and Sherbourne Street, the front door opens into the front room, so there is no hall to turn in. A three-seater goes in on its end and is turned through the frame, so the width of the door and the height of the room matter. If there is a back yard with a gate wide enough, that can be the easier way in. Feet and cushions come off first to make the sofa smaller.

Larger stores at Middlebrook, such as DFS and Furniture Village, are about 10.5 miles down the M61, and a collected order comes straight back up to junction 8. A second-hand sofa from a house in Astley Village or on the Buckshaw estates is usually simpler, with a drive to stand the van on. If it will not go through any door, the van takes it back, so measure before buying.

Measuring a Chorley doorway before the sofa arrives

Measure the front door width and height, and the depth of the sofa from back to front
Note any radiator, step or turn just inside the door of a terrace
Check whether the feet unscrew and whether the back comes off
Clear the front room so the sofa can be turned as it comes in
For a private sale, ask the seller to clear their own path to the door

Sofa collections and drops across Chorley

Middlebrook, Horwichsofa stores beside M61 junction 6, about 10.5 miles from the centre
Eaves Lane and Brooke Streetterraces with doors opening straight into the front room
Hope Street and Vine Streetcobbled rows where the van stops at the end
Buckshaw Villagenewer homes and a common place to buy second-hand
Astley Villageestate houses with drives and wider halls

Sofa runs to and from Chorley

Middlebrook → Eaves Lanethe M61 north to junction 8, then the A674 and A6, about 11 miles
Buckshaw Village → Chorley Moora second-hand sofa across town by Euxton Lane and the A6
Bradford → Chorley55 miles over the Pennines, 65 to 80 minutes

Size, distance and the doorway: a Chorley sofa price

The size and weight of the sofa, the miles from the store or seller and how tricky the doorway is set the price, agreed before collection. See how we quote for the full breakdown.