Something we run into a fair amount, especially in towns with an abundance of older homes, like Haddonfield, NJ - larger sheet goods just won't fit up the steps. This 80 year old house has plaster over lath walls so the original builder never had to contend with 4x8 pieces of sheetrock. In this case , removing the sashes of a large window and having the sheetrock for the two second floor bathrooms boomed in through the window was really the only way to get it up there. To confound things more, this corner lot had power lines on both street frontages. The boom operator was especially skilled in avoiding the trees and wires and getting the product to where we needed. This is a fairly normal service that is included with drywall deliveries from local building supply companies. The same goes for roofing materials,..etc... It bewilders me when I'm at a home center and I see builders picking up stacks of sheetrock - first loading them onto a cart, then pushing cart to a register, then pushing cart through parking lot to truck, then loading truck, usually driving to job from home center dangerously overloaded, then unloading material and carrying into house.........
