Getting a sofa or bed through a Horbury front door

Measure three things before buying: the width of the front door, the height of the hallway and the tightest turn on the stairs. In the stone houses around Queen Street, High Street and Church Street, those are often narrower than a modern three-seater. A sofa with removable legs or a back that lifts off goes through a smaller gap, and a bed frame comes in parts and is built in the bedroom.

Beds bought locally can come from the beds and bedroom studio in the town centre, and sofas from Wakefield or Leeds stores or from a seller nearby. If the old sofa is going, Wakefield Council's bulky collection takes sofas, beds and mattresses from households for a charge, and the recycling centre on Denby Dale Road in Wakefield accepts furniture with a permit. The van does not carry the old one away, so arrange that before the new one comes.

Measuring up for a sofa or bed in Horbury

Send the sofa's width, depth and height along with your front door and hall measurements
Check whether the legs unscrew and whether the back or arms come off
Have the old sofa or bed out of the room, or booked with the council's bulky collection
Bed frames are assembled in the bedroom; mattresses travel wrapped
On Queen Street, which is one-way, give the house number so the van stops at the right end

Horbury homes where sofas and beds go in

Queen Street and High Streetold stone fronts and steep stairs where every centimetre counts
Church StreetHorbury Hall and other old houses by the church, with narrow openings
Clifton Roadestate homes with wider halls, simpler for a corner sofa
Lapwing View, Horbury Bridgenew houses by the canal, built with modern doorways
Cross Keys Courtapartments where the stair turn matters more than the front door

How sofas and beds reach Horbury

Town-centre showroom → Horbury homea few streets across the centre, a short hop once the van is in town
Wakefield → Horburyabout 3 miles along the A642
Bradford → Horbury21 miles by motorway to junction 40, 35 to 45 minutes

Pricing a sofa or bed delivery in Horbury

The size of the piece, the stairs and doorways it has to pass and the distance from the collection point set the time, which is fixed as one price before the van sets off. See how we quote for the full breakdown.