it won't fit if you turn it up on it's end and angle it thru? most all furniture will fit thru a standard 30" door at some angle. i usually stand them on their end on a sheet or blanket and turn them until they will fit thru. it sometimes takes a little maneuvering, but i have not had it fail me yet. even overstuffed sectionals will fit this way. the only time i have not been able to do this was with an old 8 ft long sofa, but it went thru fine tilted forward about 45 degrees.

if it has a hide a bed mattress or removeable cushions, then certainly take those off just to reduce the weight.

i would never recommend taking the sofa apart, as most likely it will NOT go back together properly and then you have a very expensive peice of junk.

I would doubt seriously if the sofa is as old as the building so obviously it was brought in, therefore it must be able to go out. But it may require the services of professional movers who know all the hidden secrets of moving such items.

This happened to a friend. They hired someone to bring the sofa down on the TOP of the elevator. This was many years ago, but check around, I bet the service is available.

I don't know how tight the tolerance is in getting the sofa out the door and onto your elevator, but LazyPup's right ... if it came in, it will come out! One thing to check is the feet-- With higher quality furniture, the legs/feet are likely to be removable to aid in transporting through doorways. Usually it's a lag bolt embedded in the feet and screwed snugly into the frame. Inexpensive sofas simply have legs or feet nailed/stapled & glued since it's quicker and cheaper to construct them that way. The rest is just a matter of tilting and angling the sofa to maneuver the arms, then back and base through the door openings.

I had a two year old side by side refrigerator given to me on the condition that I had to figure out how to get it out of a basement where they had recently sheetrocked the stairway. After looking at it every way I could, i decided to call the local North American Van Lines people to get thier opinion.

Their estimator looked at it, then called in two of the men who do the actual moving to see what they thought. They all three looked at it, conferred amongst themselves about 5 minutes then told me for $75 all I would need to do is open my kitchen door to receive it, they would handle the rest.

Not only did they move it without incident but as they pointed out, they were fully insured in the event of a problem. That was the best $75 I have spent in a long time.