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Small Elevators For Homes Installation Process Home Elevator Installation Process
Residential elevators
were once considered a luxury for high end homes but today home elevators are
more common place. Personal elevators can be installed in just about any home
regardless of the year it was built. Installing your client's new home elevator
is just a question of adequate Fortunately our hydraulic elevators only need
space about the size of a small walk in closet. Another option for some homes is
to install the elevator in place of the stairs. Learn more about our stair
removal process here.The machine room for you hydraulic home
elevator takes up very little space and is installed at the lowest level. The
cabin area is about 12 to 15 feet at the most with 6′′ between the wall of the
shaft that the elevator travels within. Can see a new elevator can be installed
in most homes and is much easier than you might think.
Hydraulic elevators
are ideal for two and three story homes because of the low cost to build and
install, the machine room is small and is at the lowest level.
The General
Installation ProcessSimply put, the Hydraulic Home Elevator
is like a sophisticated forklift.
The first step is to form an 8" pit in your
concrete slab.
The following assembly shows the 8" pit being formed in your
concrete slab.
Some customers have a crawl space and their crawl space can
act as a pit as well with a 6" concrete slab poured at the bottom of the crawl
space. The elevator pit allows the elevator floor to be even with the first
floor level.
The next step of your installation process is to have your
carpenter or framer prepare your elevator shaft.
We strongly recommend
framing your elevator shaft out of two by fours, not two by sixes or concrete
block. Some customers think that by over-framing, or blocking the elevator
shaft, your elevator will be stronger, keep in mind that most of the loads On
the elevator are on the concrete slab below and not on the rails. It might sound
confusing, but you will create a 3” by 5” rule safety violation if you have your
framer use 2 by 6's or concrete block. This can be a Safety violation and
prohibit the installation of your Remi home Elevator. A description of the 3 x 5
rule can be found by clicking here. This is the single most important safety
issue when building your elevator shaft.
The next step is to have your
carpenter install wood blocking material. These are double two by 12 headers
turned on their face and running plate-to-plate on one wall inside the elevator
shaft. This is the wall that our rail brackets are mounted to Now the balance of
the Home Elevator is the elevator guide rails, the hydraulic jack installation,
the elevator cars link and then the elevator cap.
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