How to Install a Home Elevator | Ask This Old House
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- čas přidán 7. 01. 2017
- Ask This Old House Host Kevin O’Connor helps an accessibility contractor install a home elevator for a young man with disabilities.
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Time: Several days
Cost: $25,000 - 35,000
Shopping List:
Hydraulic home elevator lift
Home elevator enclosure
Steps:
1. Pour concrete pad for the base of the elevator.
2. Hoist the tower section with a chain pull and level it in place with a level.
3. Stabilize the tower by attaching the legs with bolts and washers using a drill/driver.
4. Hoist the second section of the tower on top of the first portion with a chain pull.
5. The first and second sections of the tower are combined using bolts and washers.
6. Fill the reservoir for the hydraulics with transmission fluid.
7. Place platform base on top of the legs.
8. Secure the platform with bolts and washers using a drill/driver.
9. Place the floor on top of the platform and secure it with fasteners.
10. Secure 42-inch panels on three sides of the platform.
11. Install enclosure around the lift to keep out rain, snow and wind.
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Love the upside down sticker at 4:50 That attention to detail really instills confidence.
The thumbnail looked like the guy was about to go down an epic slide 😅😂😭
Ikr lol
My great grandmothers house has an elevator going from the dining room to the second-floor bedroom. This elevator was installed about 25 years ago, and it is 100% fail safe. It gets an inspection every year. It worked out very well for my great grandmother who had a lot of problems with the stairs. This was a very quick and convenient option for her.
Why didn’t they install a mechanism to automatically open the door? Seems like an obvious inconvenience for someone with reduced mobility...
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Missing a lock nut
They probably has to install a new one anyway. These home elevators are a POS.
Like a room for the elevator machinery ?
@@matthewgregory8218 no, like a door closer that works in reverse
My Aunt had an elevator installed in her home. She has a large 2 story, my Uncle passed away a few years ago, so when she had a fall coming down the stairs she had one installed. I'm so happy we live in a time where we have technology to assist those to remain independent.
that was great learnt a lot.
All enclosed elevators and lifts should have a Phone or two way communication inside. The lifts with Plexiglass walls should also have power ventilation when temps get above 80 degrees it automatically turns on. Many customers are claustrophobic and like the openness of the Vertical lifts.
This is amazing
Thanks for the video. Considering installing one. Do you have contact information for the manufacturer.? Thanks once again.
Incredible
Only thing that would be nice if the door could swing open with a button
very nice
Up here in New Brunswick Canada any kind of lifting device has to be inspected yearly and they charge quite a hefty price to do ,so some places like Legions that had them installed have shut them down, just because of the inspection fees of over $ 500 CDN.
Charles Damery canada sucks
Does it have good cooling and ventilation?
I find it interesting that some projects they will say how much it cost but on others, usually where it is costly they tend not to say how much.
Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs they mentioned the price in a separate episode. The elevator starts at 40k if I remember right.
Usually on the cheaper projects, the prices will be around the same regardless of region. With something like this, I'd imagine the price would vary drastically for this job based on region, due to local codes, pricing by local companies, pricing of the materials locally, etc.
The price is in the description
They mire than likely installed a lock nut behind the first or used thread locker
Read the description
My school had an older model just like this. And if someone pulls the door while you're in it, the life won't move until they let go. So a trip that could take 30 seconds usually would take about 3 minutes. From ground to first.
Will they be able to retighten those bolts in about a year ?
Cool
Awesome
What i should looking for when adding the elevator i mean there are so much companies
What happens when the concrete heaves in 5 years?
Im a steelfixer or a iron worker how deep is that pad footing cos elevator slabs are usally a few feet deep
You have to hold the button the whole time?
Good day
Need to buy one what is the price
How much does these lifts cost too install etc.
4:47 Sticker is upside down 🙃
Chuck Norris lol
maybe the put the panel the other way round
As a self employed technician, this video was very interesting. I was hoping to see more technical stuff like the safety and interlocks. What keeps the elevator from free falling if some component fails? Is there an automatic braking system?
This unit is a Savaria V1504. To stop the lift from falling there are slack chain switches that when engaged the lift will stop.
If it blows a hydraulic line it drops like a rock
"that looks like a door up there and a concrete pad down there" thanks would have never known what those were called.
JanitorIsBack Lol
It's the extent of Kevin's knowledge.
whats up with the washers overlapping each other? I noticed you guys cut away at that point in the video.
Hey i would like to know Who's the manufacturer of the lift
There was several errors with the lock washers and flat washers that need to be fixed. I hope someone came back and fixed them. There is a right way and a wrong way to install a lock washer.
This home was a walk-out so easy to add this externally. In a single story home with limited space, could an elevator like this or similar replace the stairway to the basement? Allowing for space and weight capability for moving mechanicals up/down in/out?
by code you still need a stairway.
Oil leak. There's a screw type option is kind of like how a garage door work but vertical instead of horizonal and "cabin" instead of door.
What is a cost for an elevator like this?
Interesting .. I see the drain but when putting the metal onto the cement I do not see any rubber between them. Why? Should you not try to keep your metal dry, it only takes a scratch to let the water do its job .. so should you or ?
L Gorman and that is why they have it all covered and not exposed...
What about fail safe safety? Failure to function mid lift, power failure, mechanical failure by a lone user, fall of platform etc?
Those heavy doors with the automatic closer will be very hard for him to open, back in and out of that wheelchair lol...
just contact kone, they will install an elevator in a flash, also giving you a way to configure the elevator car. so you can add GLASS
I’m confused when he’s gone how does it stop someone from going into his house via the elevator there seems to be no locks
Well this would protect the homeowner from lawsuits if a wheelchair bound thief hurt themselves on the stairs.
How to Install A Home Elevator:
Hire a team of four to five professionals to handle the installation
Why would they think lift mechanism like a garge door lift, where, a pair of heavy coiled springs wound in opposite directions and tensioned; the uncoiling/coiling does the lift up or down using a small wiper motor. Low energy clever design it will be!
There wasn't a lock washer on one of those nuts on that first leg..
Lock washers are worse then useless. Once flattened out the do nothing and if they break the bolt is suddenly lose. If you need to secure a bolt thread locker is a much better solution.
What the other guy says. Lock washers are generally considered to be useless. Locknuts or use of thread locker is a much better way. Hell, if you're that bothered you could use lockwire or a castle nut and cotter pin.
@@mgkleym no offense kinda disagree use lock washers with my drywall stilts on ones without a lock washer bolt always comes out dont matter how tight i make it ones with lock washer always stay tight imo maybe in higher torque settings could be useless but i think they have there uses sometimes jmo
automatic roller doors would be better suited for this application
Hydraulics get micro leaks - why didn't they go with a screw drive system? Lower maintenance, longer life, no possible oil leaks.
I looking for emergency like phone or no power
how much it cost elevator alone n instillation ?
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they had a drain in the pad wowww
Bloody hell that's a lot of characters for a tiny install. I've installed vehicle lifts in car plants that go up the equivalent of 7 stories and there were only two of us .
Biggest 23 Good for you? Not sure your point.
Konr Ness
You could be right there Konr, although ending up video documenting a decision to ridiculously overman a basic project, may not be the smartest move a company makes.
Nate
"Good for you? Not sure your point"
No?.... K
What's the maximum weight this elevator can deliver?
Jarg VhuaVhua 1,000 pounds
750lbs
The family around the corner has the exact same one. But theirs only goes like 10 ft up lol
How will the guy in the wheelchair manage to open the door by himself? On the second floor the contractor opened it, and on the first floor it was Kevin...
Tonytotalify nit picking much?
Why do you even care?
It isn't nit picking. you be in the wheelchair's perspective. you have to hold the door handle with one hand and go back with one hand. how are you going to steer the wheelchair.
The guy looks to have good hand and arm strength, opening doors is not hard. Chair guys figure that out.
the button plate on the bottom floor is upside down
Attic is PH
Shouldn't the teeth fit together all the way, and shouldn't they have used more lock washers?
honestly it probable makes more sense with this poor guy just to move into a ground level home with ramps ect
Nun Urbuisness kinda what I was thinking
This was paid for through a grant, so it made sense for this retrofit. In most cases though you'd just find a single floor home.
2:00 you're gonna kill someone tightening one washer over the other and only using one split washer.
Please tell me someone else noticed the homeowners hand resting on the lip of the elevator when he started going down? His fingers would have been crushed if he had left them there when passing by a panel transition, and you can tell in the next shot when he has his hands inside the box.
I saw this right away too. Very dangerous. Cannot believe they allow this as a finished product. Insane.
@@oldtwinsna8347 it has been a year and nobody has responded to this comment haha. I thought it was so obvious. Appreciate your response, hope you’re doing well!
Always funny how an elevator with only 2 levels has buttons for each floor.
same..
How do you want it to work?
@@BrianNaeem Well the elevator can only go to two floors so one button would be adequate because if you are up then you can only go down and vice versa lol.
@@darrenr1194 thats a good point, but if u were designing an elacator, would you make that design choice? Answer honesty
What if he went up, then fell out the window and came back inside and wanted to go back up to the second floor? He couldn’t call the elevator back down.
What's the point of the elevator if he can't open those heavy doors?
And not a torque wrench in sight
4:50 the metal panel was installed upside down - look at the sticker
Can you still lock the doors with a key? Otherwise a burglar has free entry
Probably should install an actuator on the secure floor to turn off call function for more security
How much this cost?
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You can buy an old fork lift at auction do the same thing
wish they told the cost
How many "This Old House" contractors does it take to install an elevator? One for each $10K of cost, plus a knothead to watch.
the door is terrible lol
Do you know of a Grant P rogram that will provide an elevator in our house for my permanently Disable Husband?
2:26 look at the guy in the back HE IS HUGE
MR. NUTS he’s on a raised board. GENIUS.
I is down II is up?????????? Why not just use arrows for up and down???????????
I bet it’s hot as hell in that elevator
You have to hold the button the whole time and those heavy doors will smack in your face. Thanks this old house. Never let an old man install what should be newer tech
why did they use two different size washers that's going to influence a screw to spin. tisk tisk
OML please know what your talking about before you criticise them...
Timmy
People who get this and don't have any problems are just lazy. I'm a bit lazy but i still use the stairs
Transmittion fluid? No wonder these things run like junk
A couple of mistakes installing the hardware, boys...
Or just buy a one story house if you need a wheel chair?
Probably it works out cheaper to buy a one story or build a first floor extension onto your two story for a bedroom, bathroom, or whatever you may need.
Hi my name is christophe
Christopher Leforte ok?
Christopher Leforte you know you should not reveal you're name on the internet whole you have videos showing you're face
Price is not practical for and average home owner so wtf
What if it stops working while he is inside the elevator? I guess he would be trapped, may want to keep a cell phone on him at least.
Alan McCormick i think the big red button is a alarm
The Skull dubstep it is but some people just like to comment before they even finish watching
I'm pretty confident that's just a stop button.
I couldn't possibly care any less. I wouldn't care if he got stuck in there for 2 years.
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"ARE YOU GOING TO HOIST THE SECOND SECTION OF THE LIFT?" NA-WE ARE JUST GOING TO HAND THE 500 POUND PIECE THE THE GUY!! REALLY?!!
That’s a vpl not an elevator and that pos Savaria is going to be broke in a week
Probably already had to be replaced.
Pos
Thoes are not the best doors for him lol
That guy does not know what he’s talking about
Wtf
this is what you do when your handicap but have a lot of money$$
How did a guy in a wheel chair afford that elevator?
Someone in a wheel chair can still work, for example, as a software engineer which is paid very well.
18T220
They aren't that expensive if you provide the labor to enclose the elevator too. I'd still have someone else install the hydraulics.
I know right. they should all be poor living a van down by the river
18T220 your a moron.
very intelligent comment NOT. how would you feel if someone said that to you?
Im going to MAAAAK it right here. This is useless, not many people need this
You saying the clients that actually need this are useless¿!
XzTS yes I believe he is saying that
Yup thats what it sounds like to me...
Oh he's going to need it later in the future, unless he's staying in a single story home
GamerTV456 are you talking about when they were shaking hands?