Friday, March 21, 2008

Stair lift

Mom's stair lift is installed. I also installed a grab bar to hold onto when moving from the wheelchair to standing for getting on the lift.

The 70s shag carpet will go someday soon. When installing the three mounts that hold the lift beam in place I found the stair steps are actually very good, thick, nice looking wood. But they are not stained and now was not the time to rip up and remove the carpet and stain the wood. The last remodel of the house was done in the 70s before Mom bought the house. The style back then was to carpet everything.

The stair lift was very heavy and it took me, the contractor, and his helper a lot of effort to hold and place the lift in place. At one point the helper moved/set the lift down and smushed the contractor's wrist. His wrist was pretty sore the next day.

Mom actually hasn't used the lift yet. More about that later.

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