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Dec 15, 2018 07:31:20   #
BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD
 
At times, walking even a half of a flight of stairs is difficult

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Dec 15, 2018 07:57:23   #
llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio
 
CaptainBobBrown wrote:
Yeah, whatever happened to the "stairway to heaven"?


Thanks for my morning chuckle.

~Lee

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Dec 15, 2018 08:49:50   #
Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV
 
I worked in a building once that was 3 stories and when built, they put in the shaft for an elevator because it was part of the building code. When in progress, one of the engineers found that if they called it basement, first and second floor they would not be required to have an elevator because it was no longer a 3 story building. I worked on the top floor and it was a standard joke when shipments of paper etc. arrived for us to tell them that they got the elevator money, we got the shaft.

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Dec 15, 2018 08:51:29   #
turp77 Loc: Connecticut, Plainfield
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Our local library is having a fund-raiser for a new elevator. The old one is on its last legs, so they have to replace it. It's mostly for people who can't go up and down stairs, but it's only one flight, maybe ten feet. The cost: $160,000! Amazing!


MY 2 cents. They might look into a vertical platform lift (VPL) . I just retired from the accessibility business where we installed residential elevators as well as commercial units, we had many VPLs installed in Schools, churches, Doctors Offices, Town Halls, Sports complex’s and library’s as well in many private homes. Commercial units start around $10,000 - 15,000 up (and can be fitted in an old elevator hoistway) with doors or enclosures for free standing for that height and can have extra stops. They work much like an elevator but differents is they make a little more noise not a big deal and you have to hold the direction buttons while traveling. You don’t need the extra equipment room that an elevator needs. Yearly maintenance is less also. (Just a word of caution there are some bad ones out there, Bruno is a very reliable lift as well as their stairway lifts)

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Dec 15, 2018 09:55:02   #
ramdon
 
Seems what a lot of folks are forgetting is that there are a number of handicap people in this world who would not be able to visit buildings without elevators (and that have exterior steps). Sorry to say I'm one of them and I'm thankful our government has taken steps to insure accessibility is available to all who require it.

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Dec 15, 2018 10:55:01   #
GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA
 
As a retired librarian - about 40 years in the public sector - with considerable experience in building projects do be aware that the initial cost is only the beginning. Better have a maintenance program to service the d**n thing. When last I looked into it, perhaps 30 years ago, such maintenance ran about $8,000 per year; that was for a two story building that would have used a hydraulic elevator. Considering both the initial cost and the ongoing costs building a new church might be cost effective!

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Dec 15, 2018 11:16:28   #
dave.speeking Loc: Brooklyn OH
 
Been to the library twice in the last three years.
Amazon Page White, or probably any tablet, and a library card
can probably get you just about any book you wish.
I feel a bit guilty contributing to the unemployment of librarians.

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Dec 15, 2018 11:39:44   #
dragonfist Loc: Stafford, N.Y.
 
ecobin wrote:
For 10 feet how about a spiral ramp - obviously can't be a tight spiral as with stairs but might be worth invetigating & should be a lot less expensive.


That might work well for some but not the wheelchair bound or those with severe breathing problems. However a glide chair and a few wheelchairs at the upper level for in house use would be much less expensive.

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Dec 15, 2018 12:39:29   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I thought a spiral slide would be perfect. They could sit on a pad and slide down. The librarians would have to haul them up with a rope, so that would be a draw-back.


Hopefully this comment is a sick attempt at humor. Disabled yourself maybe? Close friends of someone who is. Maybe your wife can climb stairs, mine can't. Tasteless.

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Dec 15, 2018 13:01:32   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Years ago I worked at the Meyerson Symphony Center. It had an elevator that would take patrons from the valet level to the lobby area but it seemed to get stuck between floors on a continual basis and required the fire department to rescue the occupants. Even a 95 year old woman becoming stuck did not motivate operations to get the thing fixed....that is until Stanley Marcus (of Neiman-Marcus) got stuck. The elevator was fixed the next day.

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Dec 15, 2018 14:36:05   #
shelty Loc: Medford, OR
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Fortunately, a company donated $100,000. Now the local people are making up the difference, and they're on a roll. I suppose the elevator is required because of the handicap laws.


And, of course, me, or people like me.

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Dec 15, 2018 16:22:35   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
luvmypets wrote:
As much as I hate to, I am going to stop going to the library. The increase in bedbugs in books and libraries having to be shut down and sprayed for these nasty creatures is on the rise and I really don't want them in my home.

Best of luck to your library to raise the money they need for the elevator.


I worked in one for five years. We never had bed bugs. Someone dropped a box of donated books at the door overnight one time, however, and a rat got in the box. The darned thing was quite difficult to catch. Finally one of the pages picked it up by the tail and the rat was able to curl up and bite him on the hand.

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Dec 15, 2018 16:23:36   #
Ka2azman Loc: Tucson, Az
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I thought a spiral slide would be perfect. They could sit on a pad and slide down. The librarians would have to haul them up with a rope, so that would be a draw-back.


Wouldn't one of those riding chairs up stairways be less intrusive and economical?

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Dec 15, 2018 18:27:19   #
clickety
 
ecobin wrote:
For 10 feet how about a spiral ramp - obviously can't be a tight spiral as with stairs but might be worth invetigating & should be a lot less expensive.


Do they have room? Per the ADA the ramp would have to be 120 ft long ( 12 inches of ramp for 1 inch of rise). Probably not doable.

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Dec 15, 2018 20:25:38   #
luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC
 
SteveR wrote:
I worked in one for five years. We never had bed bugs. Someone dropped a box of donated books at the door overnight one time, however, and a rat got in the box. The darned thing was quite difficult to catch. Finally one of the pages picked it up by the tail and the rat was able to curl up and bite him on the hand.


There is an exterminator that comes in to the store where I work and as I was talking to one of the ladies I was working with I mentioned I was going to the library after work and the exterminator told us that he has had to spray a couple of libraries in the territory he works. Thinking he was trying to be funny I Googled bedbugs and libraries and several articles came up about libraries in North Carolina that have been infested and have had to be shut down for several days while being treated.

I hope the person that was bit by the rat didn't have to undergo rabies shots.

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