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It was a few years ago and I don't remember all the specific issues but I do remember his caution that the installation absolutely, totally has to be done by someone who's familiar with the issues of the interior elevators.
And if I remember correctly, he also issued cautions on their use.
2. Be careful what advice you get, and from which agency. I contacted one a few years ago for 2 different projects and realized that this particular group in this area was very definitely seeking projects, beyond what was necessary.
The first estimate was about 5x greater than the amount I eventually paid, and included totally unnecessary work. The second estimate was ludicrous, and it was made by an alleged RN who didn't even know what psychotropic drugs are. But she arrogantly had the audacity to give a verbal assessment of about $30,000 work of work needed for one room.
Obviously neither of them got the job. I hired REAL contractors for the work.
3. Segoline, thanks for sharing this article. I think we all can benefit from our caregiving experience and plan for retrofits to our existing homes. My first big project includes disposition of decades of valuable gardening, quilting and crafting magazines. That's a big step for this old gardener to make!
These inside elevators do not have a solid door that opens like one sees in a building, instead it is a regular door similar to a closet door and there is a metal folding screen that one opens to get onto the elevator.....
Children apparently have opened the door to the elevator and have gotten caught between the folding screen and the door to the elevator and slid down between the space between the floor and the elevator. Pets can fall into that space, too.
So, just a warning if one is thinking about moving to a townhome that has an inside small elevator or thinking about installing one in their own house. Check out the style of that elevator.
That is good news for us later on down the road.
Townhomes with elevators [elevators not the size we are use to in stores] sound great, but here in the Wash DC burbs, one would need $700k or more for such a townhouse. Let me check my wallet. One of my cats would refuse to use it, the other one would learn and probably use it couple dozen times a day :P
Thanks for the link so others can read the article :)