A three-seater through a stone doorway, a bed up a weaver's stair

In a stone cottage the door is the limit. Feet unscrew, cushions come off and corner sofas split into sections, so check before buying whether yours does. Where the front door opens into the room the sofa only has one turn to make; where there is a passage first, the angle matters more than the width, and a back door can be the better way in.

Beds are about the stairs. In the three-storey weavers' houses on Greens End Road and Huddersfield Road, the top floor can be two turning flights up, so a divan base in two halves is much easier than a single-piece king-size. Bed frames you already own are taken apart and rebuilt in the room. Your old sofa or bed stays with you: Kirklees Council runs a collection of bulky items from homes, and the Meltham recycling centre on Bent Ley Road has a reuse container for small furniture you can drop off yourself.

Measuring up before a sofa reaches HD9

Hold a tape across the front door at its narrowest, including the frame and any step
Ask the shop whether the arms, back or feet detach, and how big the largest section is
For a top-floor bedroom in an older house, note the width at each turn of the stairs
Clear the old settee out of the way first, as the new one cannot be stood in the street
Give the house number on a one-way street so the van stops on the right side

HD9 streets where a new settee or bed is carried in

Greens End Roadthree-storey stone houses, where the bed goes up two flights
Colders Lane and Colders Drivehomes west of the centre with a short carry from the road
Sunny Heys Roadestate houses to the north-west with room for the van outside
Highfield Crescentapartments, where the stair decides how the sofa goes up
Meltham Mills Roadformer workers' houses beside the industrial units

Sofa runs into Meltham

Huddersfield → Melthamthe B6108 up from Lockwood, about 5 miles
Oldham → Melthamthe A62 over Standedge to Marsden, then the B6107, about 15 miles
Bradford → Melthamfrom Bradford, 20 miles and 40 to 50 minutes on the M62

Sections, staircases and the doorway: a Meltham sofa quote

How big the sofa or bed is, whether it comes apart, how many flights it climbs and the distance from van to door make up one fixed price, agreed before collection, with the drive from Bradford already included. See how we quote for the full breakdown.