DIY Home Elevator
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Electric Hoist driven. Built with 2x3 for top and bottom platform. Use quality plywood for finished interior look. Garage Rails/wheels . I used an electrician to convert the wire from the hoist to operate at 3 points. 1/4inch Steel sheet for the top and 4 steel angles for the 4 corners that run the length . Measuring is EVERYTHING!! Good Luck
There are many elevators built by men, this one by a woman and comments are filled with safety comments. Bravo! Great job.
Until elevator companies come up with a product that is reasonably priced ($30k and a 3 year warranty is outrageous when you consider the fact you can get a new car for a lot less and a much longer warranty), you're going to find DYI projects like this everywhere. People are not made of money, yet businesses everywhere are looking for ways to bilk as much money as they can possibly snatch from the less fortunate. She has MS, and a very real need for mobility. When needs override means, safety takes a back seat.
The actual cost to build and is install residential elevators is about 1/2 of that amount, the rest is product liability and code compliance. It's not outrageous, it is what it is. If you were in the business you wouldn't be able to do it for less.
Garage door rails is very clever. As for safety, putting the second winch and magnetic door locks would do the trick.
Best diy elevator I’ve seen
Install a retractable fall arrest unit. If the winch clutch lets go you wont hit the ground.
Great job! I'm impressed. We want to add one in an old mansion that is 133 yrs. old. You're our inspiration! Thanks for sharing.
Would suggest hireing an actual lift building company to build it
@@IZAQ_ What company would you recommend? (Prefer one in the MIdwestern United States).
@@henrylong1245 Idk, I think you would need some form of license, I do know some good companies here in Sweden, Aritco and Kalea. You could always try to ship them over if you can't get them in the USA
@@henrylong1245A bit late to the game but Inclinator elevator company.
@@Ham549 Thanks. It always takes an inordinate amount of time to get a response on this platform. It's not the best way to get good information. Thanks, again.
Great job
Excellent job!
Cab interior looks good, that's about it. Anyone who has any experience in the trade can see how scary this is, however
She isn't building them for public consumption, if her life is better I am all for her. I wouldn't use Harbor Freight winches for my aircraft landing gear but I see people do it all the time also, there are risks with everything.
Dude, chill. She just needs a fall arrester
As a builder I love this idea I’m going to totally incorporate it with a couple other DIY elevators on here, I would definitely consider adding a fall arrester for your safety, but everything else is cool AF!
Nice Job! A lot of nanny state commenters. Looks completely safe.
God bless you with your Multiple-Sclerosis! I'm sorry to hear about that. But I love your DIY elevator. I might just implement this solution myself.
Well, it should be so that all doors have to be closed for it to move beacuse of safety reasons, other than that, great work
YOU ARE TRUSTING YOUR SAFETY TO A HARBOR FREIGHT HOIST!?
I'm considering porting my Elevator system ( coded in Lua ) to other languages... so it can be used as a library for Raspberry Pi or arduino... Basically it follows standard elevator logic. If going in one direction, or called in one direction, it stops at all floors called while traveling that direction - Can use simple call button ( one button ) or directional ( to mark a limit of travel ) so only stops between elevator and the first call get picked up, then it ensures it goes in the direction pressed and can stop at button calls on the way to destinations...
Something like this would benefit from this system because you could just push the call, then hit the floor you want and done. The manual up / down should remain for - fire - operation, but for convenience hitting a button and letting it do its thing would be ideal... Obviously safeties would be included so if the sensors die it would fall back on average travel time and alert to a sensor issue.
Also, I would recommend using a fall arrestor - a lot of the motors people use in DIY elevators aren't safe to use because they use a key which can shear. Also, they don't short ground and power when not moving ( which in a normal motor prevents it from rotating, effectively locking it in place which is another safety feature )...
Also I hope you'll include a hardware safety circuit, safety contacts for doors and overrun switches. You can never rely on software safety.
This is wonderful great job!!!!
Very nicely done...be very proud of it...it's eloquent!!
I like it 👍👍
Great job!!!
Thank you… I am in your situation presently. I haven’t been able to go upstairs in 2.5 years.
THAT’S SCARY!!! I’d rather use the stairs…
Thank you for sharing this video, and I'm hoping that you are getting along as best as possible with your MS. How is the elevator holding up so far? In many of the applications where I have seen an electric hoist used, there is quite a bit of noise from the motor. Have you perhaps thought about encasing the motor in a sound deadening box or enclosure? At 3:56 of the video you mention that had you to do the build all over again you would add a 3rd garage rail? or do you mean you would add one on each side for more stability as the lift rides up and down between the floors? Did you have to modify the ceiling joists to accommodate the weight of the lift and hoist? And how was that done? Thanks for this video and congratulations on quite an engineering feat!
@Stephen Ferree Good idea, thanks.
Great job! I am doing the same thing and will post video later.
Well It needs safety say you was going down and the door was open and your pet went on top of the elevator and got crushed when you go back up or fall down the shaft It should not move until both doors closed
I'm looking to do something like this for myself so that's for the video. Did you consider an emergency exit or power failure issue? I'm thinking maybe putting in a ladder fixed on the inside, but am curious how you would handle these issues.
Amazing that it's a DIY. Such ingenuity.
Grest accomplishment. I would be curious to see what you did with the spiral stair case. I am here because I was thinking about adding a staircase then thought bigger figured why not an elevator?
Very nice
You are so cool for making that.
No Overspeed govenor or other safety Devices? It is extreme dangerous
Thanks for sharing.
no safeties whatsoever. someone's gonna get hurt eventually. speaking as an elevator inspector.
No they aren’t my dad works on elevators and can confirm that it will be less likely to get injured but it’s not a zero percent chance
Or just a fall arrester dude chill out
This is not code complaint. Safety is something you should look into. Look at home elevator deaths. Kids get killed on one's that are not code complaint.
Stairs are not safe either. Mine ends in a cinderblock wall. As I age and get less limber, I will likely die falling down the stairs if I don’t get an elevator.
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Just stop
Ok, Karen. You gonna call the cops, narc??🖕
good job
Where is the brake??
yeah verry cool but is there like a alarm or a telephone cause what if it stops and has no power ?? and cant call help
Cell Phone
How to die alone in an elevator
Lol.. we call in bi-level.. split level home too in NC.
I was looking for something like this for a diy job in my next house but I do have a question. Do you have any safety aspects to this or something in the event the power goes out while your midway in the elevator?
When she said, "if you have any questions, you're welcome to comment." She meant just that. Not that she was going to answer any questions.
@@loganq the question is a comment as a comment is the question.
@@anthrounit I'm highlighting that she invited questions and then didn't bother to answer a single one.
@@loganq I take it you haven't looked up the definition of persistence and perseverance.
She hasn't replied to a single comment in over a year and a half. But you knock yourself out, buddy!
Can you give a cost for the project? The guy that does work on my house said 80,000. To install one.
That's insanely expensive. He's trying to rip you off. There are many videos of DIY home elevators and they all are in the $2000 or less range. Just depends on how clean you want it to look and whether you need to hire contractors for part of the build. Do it yourself and save thousands.
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Very cool
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Death trap.
yeah sure. im guessing you are still wearing your mask.
@@kylebachman4477 And I bet you still think Trump won. 🤣
@@Ham549typical liberal pie filling for a brain mentality. That's what separates men who gets things done to girly men who drive around in their car with a mask on. Who do a 12 point safety check on their bike before getting on the seat. The reason they write on shampoo bottles not to drink. You must be the brother in the movie benchwarmers that hid in the closet all the time cause he was afraid of the sun 😅😅
Sorry, you really should have gotten a professional elevator company to do this work. Your elevator looks good, but with no safety brakes (for if the cable breaks), door interlocks, etc, this is incredibly dangerous. Someone will get hurt using this elevator.
If you plan to sell the house, it will never pass inspection. It was not installed by certified professionals, and is not from a major OEM.
Get real. its her personal elevator. shes not running a motel. the speed of this elevator isnt even close to the speed of a commercial elevator. Highly unlikely that cable is gonna break. she is professional enough to know how to hook up a snatchblock to double her pulling power of a winch that was already more than capable. Shes also not 15 floors up. so the highly unlikely chance the cable should break. the drop is gonna be about 8 feet. she is way overkill with a 4 corner box steel design for inegrity as well. so are you gonna pay for an overpriced "professional" company to install her $18,000.00 elevator in which there is no reason to? btw door interlocks? lol. you realize for one. this thing is traveling what not even a foot a second. two, by the time you could possibly fall out of it you would be about 3 feet off the ground. and thats only if the bottom door is open. and you are full of it with the inspection. unless selling as a HUD approved home. otherwise its take it or leave it. so why not give a little credit and stop thinking you have to be employed at a elevator co to build an elevator. theres more of these home elevators around than you realize.
@@kylebachman4477 Agreed! I am going have an elevator like this installed, and can’t afford $20-30K. I live alone, I’m aging, but I am very active and go downstairs to my basement/garage/workshop/plant rooms 10x a day -- I know one day I’ll fall down the stairs and no one will know. I don’t give a damn about whether it will pass inspection. I will live here until I can’t. It’s replacing stairs--the new homeowner (after I die of old age) can simply put stairs in if they want!
@@hendo-dogsthere you go. I hope you get your elevator done. I'm on the same page as you. I'm all finished installing my elevator. My reasoning is this. (where everyone said no you can't do that I did) I dug my own basement out from what was a crawl space. By myself renting a small bobcat style machine. And now have a full basement. But only bilco doors from outside. With being a ranch house to put steps in I'd have to lose half a room because of an entrance way and foyer. So I picked one small 3x4 closet . Cut the hole in the floor. Then Braced the floor. I utilized 2x2 box steel and built rails spanning from the basement floor all the way to the ceiling of the closet. Boxed the steel at the top of those rails and added the overhead winch. I found some old propane contaminant cages stores used to exchange bottles and retrofitted them into my cab until. Saved a ton of money in steel. On the sides of the cab I used overhead 8 bearing rail trolleys top and bottom of the cab. They ride in overhead trolley channel bought from Lowe's and are attached to the 2x2.This keeps the cab secure and stable in all directions and works great. I too used a snatch block to overkill the pulling power and slow down the speed to a crawl. It's a cordless controller for the winch and already had an automatic stop when it reaches the top. As of now with everything purchased I have about $600.00 total invested. It works great. I used chain mounted on the upper 4 corners to lift it. Which allows an escape out the top. And in the side on the bottom of the cab I simply cut a small door on hinges to escape out the bottom. I understand some people feel a "pro" should only do this. But growing up learning many skills in diy it was a piece of cake. Good luck sir. I wish you all the best in building one.
Speaking as someone in the industry I don't want to come across as insulting but this seems VERY dangerous to me.