Elevator installation

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Are you asking about an interior or exterior elevator?

Champagne elevators

We've used them in 3 new and one retrofit. Easy to work with and no complaints from any of the homeowners.

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Are you asking about an interior or exterior elevator?

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I guess it would be considered exterior as it would be installed on an outside wall of the house. It’s not for me btw. I’m still strong enough to go up stairs.

I told a neighbor that I’d look into it as she’s getting up in age and wants to install something. I think it makes sense to put it on the side of her house vs trying to shoe horn it inside.

She says that her neice’s husband would install it for relatively cheap but I’m not sure if he knows what cheap means of even if he knows what he’s doing.

Nonetheless, She needs a benchmark to gauge price and some info in types of elevator- the good, bad and in between. My google searches say to expect @20,000 for the elevator. Installation has to be plus 10,000 but I really don’t know.

Exterior lifts require a good bit of maintenance. When my grandparents got older my grandfather looked into an exterior lift for their camp. He ended up going with 2 separate runs of stair chairs. He was a retired architect still doing projects for the camp and St. Thomas More until his stroke. He always did plenty of research so I would look into other options and keep an exterior elevator or lift on the back burner.

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stair chairs

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how did he like it? how did it look?

Some friends of my parents had an elevator in their house when I was a kid back in the 70’s.

Only went up 1 floor but it was cool as hell riding that thing as a kid.

This was in Mamou of all places.

My dad has one in his townhouse. He bought the place back in 2012, and the units were only a few years old. It is just between 2 floors, and has a normal looking door on the outside, which has to be closed before it operates, and the old metal sliding gate inside has to be latched into place as well. The doors have an autolock so that the door only opens on the floor that the car is on. Just safety features so that someone can't fall into the shaft or be in the shaft while it is operating. It even has a phone inside, so I guess if it malfunctioned you could call for help.

He's had a few issues with it over the years, nothing major but a control board went out one time, and another time it just needed some maintenance on the cables/rollers. Something got out of line and it wouldn't work until they were realigned.

When he moved in, he said he rarely ever used it. But now that he's getting older with some back problems, he uses it going up but rarely going down. Of course all his grandkids love riding in it, even though it takes about 20 seconds to just go up 10 feet.

els lifts

Recommended this company a couple weeks ago to someone. My dad had his installed, and a few of his neighbors as well, and they are pretty maintenance free. Pretty simple designs out of aluminum. Install was a couple thousand dollars.

So the hope is that the elevator can be enclosed while still being on the outside of the house. Guessing that’s not a problem with the ones being posted