Usually we have a strict rule around here to never pick up used furniture, as it’s entirely possibly infested with bedbugs. But this was a bit different, this was donated from a church school (my bad). It looks basically brand spanking new, save for a small hole in the left arm of it.
Yeah it got half soaked in the rain, but no big deal, it’s at my mom’s place now drying out. Here in a couple or few days whenever she tells me it’s dry enough, we’re gonna haul her old beat up couch away.
Edit: Photo added, cushions are off to the side still drying.
No, we had no way to prevent it from getting soaked, it’s currently drying out at my mom’s place right now. Still, getting it there was a fun challenge, especially given that our truck bed was already loaded with groceries plus our spare tire.
Our truck is a 96 GMC Sonoma, luckily the extended cab version. So, we basically loaded up almost everything from the bed of the truck into the inside back of the truck in the extended cab area. And yes our truck has one of those large metal toolboxes occupying a couple feet of the truck bed…
By the time we got the couch loaded up, half of it was hanging off the back and it was basically at the teetering balance point, so how do secure it? Well, we had a brand new roll of paracord handy, for whatever random cause. Can’t get much more random than a free couch from another state no less…
I secured it in 2 places, one to hold the forward most end down from teetering, and one behind it to prevent it from sliding. That forward one was indeed a challenge, as I simply couldn’t get it tight enough to stop it from teetering. But that’s where I got creative…
We happen to have a sledgehammer in the truck toolbox. So, I wrapped the tied down paracord around the handle of the sledgehammer and gave it a good solid twist. And sure enough, that got it extra tight where it wouldn’t budge a bit 👍
The back one was more or less just to make sure it was extra secure and not gonna fuck up and slide off. We went a bit slower on the way back, around 55mph, but yeah aside from the rain, the journey back went without any issues.
Oh. I hope it dries out OK. Not all couches recover from something like that.
In any case it should be a good test for how clean it is; the smell will tell.
I checked in with mom today, and the couch seems to be drying out just fine. We’re gonna give it another day or so before putting the cushions back on.