Quote Originally Posted by Haroun View Post
Handtrucks, even the nicest newest ones today, can still gouge or even just press a floor or a set of steps. I was working on a job a while back & the building had "brasilian cherry" floors, which were pretty soft for a tropical hardwood. I left one afternoon & when I came in the next morning there were tracks pressed into the floor by the super expensive heavy duty 4 wheeled appliance truck. You could look at the floor in the light from the windows across the room & see how they came into the place, where they went into a room & backed out to turn, then the turn into the kitchen.
Now, granted, these 2 likely would have gotten the fridge into the house with a hand truck but I do wonder what the damage to the deck stairs & the doorsills would have been.
If you thought Brasilian Cherry was bad you should try to traverse a kitchen floor made of cork. A 7000 sq ft 3 story house with only 1 bed room if you can imagine. built entirely by the homeowner and his wife, plumbing, electrical and my elevator excluded. Richard and I hauled his wife's new 35 cubic foot commercial refrigerator up the elevator I had made and installed for them to their 3rd floor kitchen. First we laid down furniture blankets then put 3/4inch plywood on top of them . as the fridge weighed over 500 lbs, we figured it would be better not to use a dolly but roll the fridge on its own wheels the only thing is they don't swivel. Ever try to turn something like that on wheels that don't swivel? I can tell you not fun Might have been worth laying some sheets of 10 ga steel on top of the plywood if we had, had any.