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Apologies for the long post I got carried away.
Our building has five floors and 15 apartments with three apartments in each floor. I live on the fifth floor. We have many old people and few with walking problems.
This week we had a problem with our building lift (elevator). The technician came and said he needs to replace a part. It took two days to get the lift operational again.
We also have stairs but they are not too wide about 87cm.
During these two days, I was able to go down and up again on foot. The going down was easy but climbing up with groceries five floors was very hard, especially doing the fourth and fifth floors and my daily quota was just once.
I suppose I should do a lot of exercise to strengthen my legs, but I am a lazy person and always take the lift.
Anyway, I started thinking about what to do if the lift doesn't work for a longer period and I thought a stair lift might be a good solution.
The problem with the stairs is that we can't have a continuous stair lift to all the floors because each floor has a lift and one apartment door next to the stairs and the only possible solution is to have separate five stair lifts.
Each stairway has three sections
Section A - 6 steps
Section B - 6 steps
Section C - 5 step
Total steps for each floor = 17 steps
Total steps for the whole building = 17 x 5 = 85 steps
Section A starts next to an apartment door and the tenants will not like the noise of a stair lift going up and down. Therefore climbing up section A (6 steps) is inevitable.
Section B is straight and has a landing area of about 1m x 1m so one option is to have a straight stair lift for just section B (6 steps) and climb section C (6 steps), or second option is to have a bent rail 90 degrees to climb also section C (5 steps), which would be ideal but I think a lot more expensive.
There you have it:
Option 1:
Climbing up section A (6 x 5 = 30 steps total), straight stair lift for section B only, Climb up section C (5 x 5 = 25)
Total 30 + 25 = 55 steps which is equivalent to going up 55/17=3.3 floors
Option 2:
Climbing up section A (6 x 5 = 30 steps total), straight stair lift for section B and bent rail for section C
Total 30 steps which is equivalent to going up 30/17=1.7 floors.
Problems:
1 - Not all tenements would be interested in paying for stair lifts that they might not want to use especially those living on floors 1 and 2, but they will not mind the installation as it it is only in cases of emergencies.
This means the tenants from 3rd, 4th and fifth floors would cover the cost.
2 - How to charge the stair lifts batteries.
Since the chairs are not inside an apartment, there will be a problem with making sure that the batteries are fully charged, would mean the use of long electrical cables from each apartment.
3 - Vandalism.
Having these stair lifts unguarded could attract attention and possible vandalism by strangers.
Please post your comments if you have experience with using stair lifts and what are the problems that you see with these solutions.
Also a rough ides about how much the whole thing might cost.
These clips has given me the inspiration to look for this solution, but it looks too expensive especially if we need it only in case of emergencies and not for daily usage.
Straight stair lift
Curves stair lift
Our building has five floors and 15 apartments with three apartments in each floor. I live on the fifth floor. We have many old people and few with walking problems.
This week we had a problem with our building lift (elevator). The technician came and said he needs to replace a part. It took two days to get the lift operational again.
We also have stairs but they are not too wide about 87cm.
During these two days, I was able to go down and up again on foot. The going down was easy but climbing up with groceries five floors was very hard, especially doing the fourth and fifth floors and my daily quota was just once.
I suppose I should do a lot of exercise to strengthen my legs, but I am a lazy person and always take the lift.
Anyway, I started thinking about what to do if the lift doesn't work for a longer period and I thought a stair lift might be a good solution.
The problem with the stairs is that we can't have a continuous stair lift to all the floors because each floor has a lift and one apartment door next to the stairs and the only possible solution is to have separate five stair lifts.
Each stairway has three sections
Section A - 6 steps
Section B - 6 steps
Section C - 5 step
Total steps for each floor = 17 steps
Total steps for the whole building = 17 x 5 = 85 steps
Section A starts next to an apartment door and the tenants will not like the noise of a stair lift going up and down. Therefore climbing up section A (6 steps) is inevitable.
Section B is straight and has a landing area of about 1m x 1m so one option is to have a straight stair lift for just section B (6 steps) and climb section C (6 steps), or second option is to have a bent rail 90 degrees to climb also section C (5 steps), which would be ideal but I think a lot more expensive.
There you have it:
Option 1:
Climbing up section A (6 x 5 = 30 steps total), straight stair lift for section B only, Climb up section C (5 x 5 = 25)
Total 30 + 25 = 55 steps which is equivalent to going up 55/17=3.3 floors
Option 2:
Climbing up section A (6 x 5 = 30 steps total), straight stair lift for section B and bent rail for section C
Total 30 steps which is equivalent to going up 30/17=1.7 floors.
Problems:
1 - Not all tenements would be interested in paying for stair lifts that they might not want to use especially those living on floors 1 and 2, but they will not mind the installation as it it is only in cases of emergencies.
This means the tenants from 3rd, 4th and fifth floors would cover the cost.
2 - How to charge the stair lifts batteries.
Since the chairs are not inside an apartment, there will be a problem with making sure that the batteries are fully charged, would mean the use of long electrical cables from each apartment.
3 - Vandalism.
Having these stair lifts unguarded could attract attention and possible vandalism by strangers.
Please post your comments if you have experience with using stair lifts and what are the problems that you see with these solutions.
Also a rough ides about how much the whole thing might cost.
These clips has given me the inspiration to look for this solution, but it looks too expensive especially if we need it only in case of emergencies and not for daily usage.
Straight stair lift
Curves stair lift
