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Or a stairlift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift Should be around five to ten thousand Dollar. Or you lease one

Or a stairlift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift Should be around five to ten thousand Dollar. Or you lease one for the rest of your life for about 50-100$ per month. You do the math. The electric stair climber wheelchairs are unlikely to be a competitor because of their price. But still some believe in them. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/scewo-wheelchair-can-climb-flight-stairs/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/scewo-wheelchair-can... https://www.scewo.com/en/ https://www.scewo.com/en/ But than again, people like do believe in many things.

BadCookie 5y ago
An average stairwell is not quite wide enough to accommodate a stairlift, so I don’t think it’s a great general solution. You also still have the issue of transferring in and out of the chair, which can be an issue for some people. I bought a house on the premise that I could install a chairlift if needed … and had to sell the house a few years later when it turned out that the stairwell really wasn’t wide enough for it. (The chair would’ve been majorly in the way of the able-bodied people who also needed the stairs.) Admittedly, I should have done better due diligence.
- jaclaz 5y ago
  It depends on the stairlift model, there are very compact versions, the kind with two or three pipes as guide take some 15-20 cm of the width of the stairs, and usually (not always) the chair/seat (which is foldable) can be "diverted" laterally. About the 80 cm space required by this Vertiwalk thingy, it is roughly what a mini-elevator would need. There is a (specific) pneumatic mini-lift that is 75 cm diameter: https://www.vacuumelevators.com/home-elevators/ https://www.vacuumelevators.com/home-elevators/ Of course this is not suited for a wheel chair, the passenger must be standing, you need 1,30/1,40 m to be wheelchair accessible.

BadCookie 5y ago

An average stairwell is not quite wide enough to accommodate a stairlift, so I don’t think it’s a great general solution. You also still have the issue of transferring in and out of the chair, which can be an issue for some people. I bought a house on the premise that I could install a chairlift if needed … and had to sell the house a few years later when it turned out that the stairwell really wasn’t wide enough for it. (The chair would’ve been majorly in the way of the able-bodied people who also needed the stairs.) Admittedly, I should have done better due diligence.

jaclaz 5y ago
It depends on the stairlift model, there are very compact versions, the kind with two or three pipes as guide take some 15-20 cm of the width of the stairs, and usually (not always) the chair/seat (which is foldable) can be "diverted" laterally. About the 80 cm space required by this Vertiwalk thingy, it is roughly what a mini-elevator would need. There is a (specific) pneumatic mini-lift that is 75 cm diameter: https://www.vacuumelevators.com/home-elevators/ https://www.vacuumelevators.com/home-elevators/ Of course this is not suited for a wheel chair, the passenger must be standing, you need 1,30/1,40 m to be wheelchair accessible.