Hello everybody it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time and
money and today is how to dismantle a DFS sofa bed now this one is a three
seater it is very very heavy, I'll show you how to take apart the sofa bed mechanism
inside and then get off the arms just to remove all the heavy parts so it's a lot
more manageable to get into the back of a Van and take to your local recycling,
alright let's get cracking this is the three seater sofa bed here and I've
already removed the cushions from the top and the first thing you need to do
is just lay it onto its front so just tip it over and just leave it resting
there now go around the back and what you want to do is you just want to push
this sofa-bed mechanism out slightly just be careful with your hands or your
fingers there, that gives you access to the bolts on either side so you've got a
bolt there and a screw and at the top you've got a bolt and a screw so you've
got four fixings on either side for the actual mechanism, whilst I'm showing you
that there's a link above about how to clean uPVC windows frames so they stay
clean, now the bolts on this particular sofa are 13 millimeter bolts so just
remove the top one by turning it anti-clockwise and I'll just speed this
footage up you've got one at the top there and you've got one more at the
bottom again turning this anti-clockwise and you'll notice the screw next to it
the crosshead screw we'll be removing that later on but first of all we'll go
to the other side and remove the two retaining bolts on there, there's a link
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pumps etc, okay I've removed the bolts on the other side as well now we just can
remove these screws so get your cross head screwdriver and just turn this
anti-clockwise again I'm going to speed this footage up
so I'm just removing the one at the top
and then the one on the other side and luckily for me I've found my electric
screwdriver so this is now going to be a lot easier you can see how filthy and
dirty sofa's get so apologies for the mess at the back of this sofa okay
just give that a wiggle and pull that out now the top bit has become loose now
we just need to remove the screw at the bottom, there's a link above now about how
to clean the inside of your thermos flask the easy way, right pull this
through out there we go so that whole mechanism is now loose and we've just got
to remove the screw on the other side and then we're ready to remove the whole
sofa-bed mechanism, if you've got someone to help you that's good they can hold on
to the sofa bed just in case it starts moving about
just going to pull this out with a pair of pliers and there we go right
we're now ready to remove the whole sofa-bed mechanism I'm going to go
around the front and then push it through the back and I've tied up the
sofa bed there with an old shoelace just to stop it all folding outwards I'm just
pushing it through again if you've got someone to help you that will make it a
lot easier, so just using a bit of brute force giving it a bit of a wiggle
and there we go just pull it out of the sofa
we can just fold that down onto the floor whilst I'm doing this there's a
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there's the whole sofa bed mechanism there and here is the rest of the sofa
now what we're gonna do is just remove the arms just so it makes it easier to
get it to the local recycling so you've got a bolt at the bottom here and we've
got two bolts at the top these are holding the arms on so again this is a
13 millimetre nut so just remove these anti-clockwise I'm just going to speed
this footage up so that's those three bolts removed and we'll just do the same
on the other side
so then now that it's all six bolts are removed so three from either side now the
armrest should just literally just prise off so let's just give it a push and
there we go that simple absolutely brilliant right now let's
just do the other end the only reason I'm doing this is because it just makes
it much more manageable to lift and get it into the Van and get it down to the
tip, as a whole sofa bed it was so heavy even with two people it was a real
struggle to lift it, this just makes it a lot easier and that's what we've got
left of the sofa and there's a link above now about how to check car fuses
without having to remove them using a multimeter, and I've just managed to get
the entire sofa and all the mechanism and the cushions into the back of my
Volkswagen T5 so I'm happy about that, now let's go to the local recycling Oh
nice Van, and then just need to put it into the appropriate area. If you'd like
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