# Pro-Tip! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740 "2015-02-15T19:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740/21 "2015-02-17T21:02:12Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > My parents bought a new couch years ago and had my uncle pick it up for them so they didn’t have to wait on the delivery guy. Uncle shows up with couch and Dad goes out to help Uncle carry it in. They get the couch in the door but the couch wouldn’t fit through the doorway to the living room no matter how they tried to maneuver it. > > They wound up backing up and heading back out the front door, carrying the couch around to the back of the house, where the neighbor guy saw them and came over to help. The couch only fit through the back door with the three of them pushing and pulling after Mom and I took the door off of its’ hinges. > > When Mom and Dad moved out of that house the couch stayed behind. Been there, done that, including the neighbor guy, but no uncle. We got the couch at a thrift store, with nice new professionally done upholstery and hand-carved woodwork all around, all for $75! When we got home, we found it too big to fit through the door. Neighbor appeared (Yay, Bill!), and we found that the seat-and-back section could be unscrewed from the frame, leaving the parts just small enough to go in. Now that we know how, it will be coming along if we move. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740/22 "2015-02-17T21:24:06Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Wait…WHAT??! > > 😉 You laugh, but I’ve been in a house where the stove jutted 3 full inches into one of the doorway entrances to the kitchen. “…you don’t understand… I bake and I need 2 full-sized ovens… careful, that stove is hot…!” - It got said so often it should have been on a sign. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740/23 "2015-02-18T14:44:55Z")
When my lovely young wife and I first bought a house together it was a builder’s “spec” home, one where the builder shows off his style for future new development projects. On our third walk through after making an offer my wife pointed out that a bathroom door was only 28". Not a problem for most bathrooms. It’s a common dimension. But this particular bathroom doubled as a utility room and would house the washer and dryer. It would have been impossible to get a standard washer and dryer into the room. The builder who built over 100 homes missed that fact as did the engineer husband. The woman who liked the idea of doing the laundry on the main floor though was paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740/24 "2015-02-18T14:53:39Z")
You need Dirk Gently. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740/25 "2015-02-18T21:52:51Z")
> [@K364](#): > > In a house we previously owned there is a kitchen cabinet above the fridge. This cabinet has no bottom panel - you open the door and see the top of the fridge. You can guess why. I very carefully measured and researched our new fridge and got one that fit exactly under the cabinet you describe. Unfortunately, that was from the bottom of the cabinet with about an inch of clearance for cooling. 'I are smrt!" However, I did not measure from the bottom of the cabinet doors, so now we now have a very nicely painted door less cabinet interior ([Frog Shape Tape](http://frogtape.com/index.php/products/frogtape-shape-tape)) of ,I’m not making the name up, Peacock Duvet chevrons on white. SWMBO liked the colour so much that I had to paint our new end tables to match. I have unleashed an interior decorating monster all due a small measurement error. She’s now talking about the bathroom and our bedroom next, and this from a woman who up until this point couldn’t make a decision about an accent wall colour for five years.“It should be green blue, but not too blue or green, and it should have a hint of grey in it, or maybe we should look at a Burnt Orange…” ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740/26 "2015-02-20T02:09:59Z")
I learned this lesson when I bought a new washer and it had to go into the basement. The previous washer had been installed, then the previous owners HAD BUILT THE BASEMENT INTERIOR WALLS AND DOORS AROUND IT. Plus, one door actually had the iron soil pipe partially blocking it. With careful measurement and popping off the strike jamb, we were able to squeeze the new washer in. The next year I had to replace the iron soil pipe with a plastic pipe and the door wasn’t blocked any more. I got the new heater in without probs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-tip/712740.md?page=1)