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If it's cheaper than the other alternatives then it has a place.
by Zababa 5y ago
If it's cheaper than the other alternatives then it has a place.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoIt probably isn't though. My mother in law's stairlift was installed in a couple of hours along the normal stairs. There was no building work to create a shaft needed. It was cheap.
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoThis is key - they didn't have to do construction and make a shaft with the chairlift. That'll put the prices up.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoMay I ask price, at what part of the USA are you in? I foresee buying one.
- Kaibeezy 5y agoReengineer this mechanism to run along inclined rails. If cantilevering from rails on one side is impractical, make it detach from the opposite rail at the top/bottom and swing out of the way.
- bobthepanda 5y agoThe requirements for space (a column of free area 80cm by 80cm) are so small that I don't even think they make elevators that small.
- aranazo 5y agoYou don't have 80cm between normal floor joists so installation in a regular house could be complex and expensive. If you are designing a multistory new build specifically for the elderly leaving a space for a solution like this to be installed/uninstalled in the future could be added to building standards.
- bobthepanda 5y agosure, I'm just saying that a elevator normally takes up much more space and is therefore more expensive to start with.