How to get a refrigerator in the house......

                                                              Is it going to fit?????

                                                  Well maybe if we take the door off......

                Now that we got it up the stairs the next questions is how do we not scratch the floor......


So we got the new refrigerator on Monday! Rick and I ran to Menard's right after I got home from work and were back home with our brand new, bright, shinny refrigerator by 6:30. Then the adventurer began...

Well pull into the driveway and both of us look at the refrigerator sitting way up high on the truck and think now how are we going to get it down....Rick said we should pull into the yard where we have a dip for drainage into the ditch and that way the tailgate would be even with the ground. I told him I thought it was a dumb idea because we would have to drag it across the lawn then. So we put a ramp up on the tailgate. Well Rick tried to tip it up once we got the dolly on it and realized we were going to need help. So we called Joe and he came right over.Rick and Joe tried to get it rolled onto the ramp and it was not going to happen. It was just to heavy and huge! I then got us some more help and had Paul come over. It was decided that Ricks idea to get it off the truck in the yard was indeed a good idea. I had to admit that I was wrong and he was right.... They were able to roll it right off the truck and then got it across the yard to the front door. And that was when we had our next problem....

We measured everything up and it appeared that it would fit so they tried to get it though the door. It was not going to happen! The handles were sticking out to far. So they backed up and removed the handles  and started to roll it in again...but once again it did not fit....next the front door to the house had to come off. Finally after much twisting and turning it was in the house. Next came the steps.....

Once again we had a fit problem. It just fit past the railing but right at the top of the steps we have a planter that is made of stone and the top stone was sticking out to far so it had to go. Thank goodness it came right off and did not break or make a mess. I guess the cement holding it on since 1974 when it was put in was not doing a whole lot of good :) Finally we had everything in place and they managed get it up the stairs with brute force.

So three hours later we finally had the refrigerator in the house.

Since it is still in the dinning room with the handles off I did not take a picture of it but here is one off the LG site of what it looks like:

 

 Tonight the people who are buying the old refrigerator and coming to pick it up so we should be able to get the new one all put in place and start using it. Hopefully it does not take us three hours to get the old one out....

Later
Sharon