Before you order
Will it fit?
There is nothing worse than a sofa stuck in the hallway. Measure once, here, and we will tell you what goes in.
Almost every delivery that goes wrong goes wrong at the front door, and almost all of those were preventable with a tape measure and two minutes. This page is those two minutes.
Start with the doorway
A sofa does not go through a door the way it sits in a room. It goes through on its side, so the measurement that decides everything is not the length — it is the cross-section, the smaller of the depth and the height.
Will it fit through your door?
Measure the narrowest point of the open doorway — frame edge to the face of the open door, not the frame’s outer width.
How to measure
Three measurements, in the order the sofa meets them. Write them down as you go; you will want them again when you talk to us.
1. Doors and entrances
Open the door as wide as it goes and measure the narrowest point — from the inside of the frame to the face of the open door, not the frame’s outer width. That door leaf takes 40 to 50mm off the opening and it is the single most common reason a measurement turns out to be optimistic. Measure the height of the frame too.
If the door lifts off its hinges, say so when you talk to us. It changes the answer more than anything else on this page.
2. Hallways and corners
Measure the width of the hallway, noting anything that sticks out: radiators, skirting, a meter cupboard, a light fitting at head height. Then find the turns. A straight run is rarely the problem — the pivot at the bottom of the stairs usually is.
For a corner, what matters is the diagonal clearance: the space a long box needs to swing through ninety degrees. If the hallway narrows at that exact point, that is where it will stop.
3. The room itself
Mark the sofa’s footprint on the floor with masking tape or newspaper before you order. It is a five-minute job and it settles the argument. Check you can still walk around it, open the doors fully, reach the sockets, and draw the curtains.
Measure the narrowest point of the open doorway, not the frame. The door itself takes two inches, and two inches is usually the whole argument.
The legs come off
Our sofas arrive in pieces and the feet unscrew, which takes around 10cm off the height and makes a great many of them fit through a standard UK doorway that they would not clear assembled. If the calculator says a sofa is tight, this is usually why it still goes in.
Ask us to check it for you
Send us your measurements and we will work through them with you — including the bits that are hard to judge from a tape measure, like whether a turn is genuinely tight or just looks it. It costs nothing and we would far rather do it now than on delivery day.
Prefer to talk? Call 07476 616022, Mon–Fri 9am–6pm and Sat 10am–4pm, or send us a message.