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)