Pulling out appliances

[quickwash]

Hi all,

Just thought i would pass on a little tip for ease of pulling-out and pushing-back of heavy appliances on lino/cushionfloor. Nothing too technical coming from me 😉 And probably all the engineers will do this anyhow 🙂

When ‘whatever’ is pulled-out, put a dab of washing-up liquid on the place where the feet will end up. This is especially useful for people with cushionfloor because, as most will know, heavy appliances can leave some pretty deep ‘indents’ thus making it extra difficult to move the appliance :rolls:

Hope this is of some help with an often 👿 of a job!

quickwash :plug:

[Martin]

Re: Pulling out appliances

…..but NEVER ever use neat washing-up liquid on hard sculptured vinyl tiles, wetting the floor with water only is quite sufficient to allow appliances to easily slide out.:wink:

[quickwash]

Re: Pulling out appliances

Yes i could understand that, it was really a tip for cushionflooring with those deep dents that make the appliance hard to ‘get going’ so to speak. And a dab, not a squirt 😉

quickwash :plug:

[iadom]

Re: Pulling out appliances

A quick spray with furniture polish is better, as long as you remember to wipe it up afterwards.

[Martin]

Re: Pulling out appliances

quickwash wrote:Yes i could understand that, it was really a tip for cushionflooring with those deep dents that make the appliance hard to ‘get going’ so to speak.

Vinyl cushion flooring is indeed a caution when shifting heavy domestic appliances that have feet rather than wheels. And certainly wetting the floor is essential to ensure a degree of ‘slippage’ under each foot otherwise the indents can quickly and easily rip as you move the appliance.

Generally within the trade, and to prevent any damage to that type of floor covering whilst moving a heavy machine it is far better to place some material under each foot in turn. For example, off-cuts of carpet or better still the purpose-made furniture sliders allow the machine to glide over the floor covering with ease.

In most cases vinyl cushion flooring never goes fully under appliances as carpet/lino fitters generally cut the material short and simply poke it under the front feet of appliances at best, cut around them at worst. Again in the trade these instances are preferred as it often is a simple task to lift the appliance up and place the gliders under the front feet, slide it forward then lift and place the sliders under the rear feet in turn. The appliance can then easily and safely glide on that vulnerable cushion floor. Putting it back then a simple task, removing the gliders in turn.

When the cushion flooring goes right underneath the appliance, then, likely as not, you have a problem due to limited access to the rear feet, but that’s another story I won’t indulge you with right now! 😈

[quickwash]

Re: Pulling out appliances

hi martin,

You may have guessed that mine goes right to the back! And the dab of washing-up liquid was my solution, i have tried other ways, but this seemed the best for me with such deep indents 🙂

The furniture polish was not sufficient for ease of movement and i had a nasty 😯 later that day, when i nearly did the splits 😉

I move my freestanding fridgefreezer by putting folded towels or carpet cut offs under the feet and sliding it along 🙂

regards

quickwash :plug:

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