Through a terrace door or up a semi's stairs: a sofa into LS24

The terraced rows near the centre are the tight ones. On Westgate the front door opens onto the A659 pavement, so the sofa comes off the van in a nearby side street and is walked the last stretch, then through a door that may be narrower than the sofa is deep. Measure the door width and the sofa's depth before buying; if it will not go straight in, it goes on end, and a corner unit is split into its sections first.

On the estates the door is easier, but a sofa bed bound for a spare room has the stairs to face. A semi on Golf Links Avenue or Auster Bank Road has a turn somewhere on the flight, and that turn decides whether a two-seater goes up or stays downstairs. Unscrewing the legs and lifting off the back cushions gains a few centimetres. The old sofa stays with you; North Yorkshire Council's bulky waste service collects sofas for a charge.

Checks before a sofa arrives at a Tadcaster house

Measure the front door, the hall width and the turn on the stairs
Find out whether the legs unscrew and the back cushions come off
For a Westgate or Station Road terrace, name the nearest side street for the van
Clear the hall and take down pictures along the stair wall
Book the council's bulky waste collection for the old sofa before the new one comes

Tadcaster homes and shops where a sofa needs planning

Westgateterraces on the one-way A659, so the van unloads round the corner
Station Roadterraced houses near the leisure centre and the fire station
Marlborough Avenue and Marlborough Drivesemis in the south-west of town
Auster Bank Roadeast-bank semis off York Road
Calcaria Carpets & Furnishings, Commercial Streeta furnishings shop on the east bank

Sofa runs into Tadcaster

Monks Cross → Tadcastera sofa from York's shopping parks, back along the A64
Leeds → Tadcastera showroom collection, then the A64 east to LS24
Bradford → Tadcaster33 miles from Bradford, a drive of 45 to 55 minutes along the M62, M1 and A64

Size, stairs and the walk from the side street: a sofa's price

How big the sofa is, where it is collected, and whether it is walked from a side street or turned up the stairs set the fixed price, agreed before collection. See how we quote for the full breakdown.