Preparing my father's former house for sale and we have 2 Stannah stair lifts to get rid of. Stannah will generously remove them for just over £300(!).
So, I need to remove them myself. The rail is simply screwed down, but I can't see how the actual chair fits to the rail. Does anyone know how to remove the chair from the rail?
TIA, Neil
Does it slide off at the end after removing the stop stuff? I bet my knowledge is from one which was very very old so no doubt its all changed. Brian
if that includes disposal and the alternative would be you hiring a van I guess they see that as not unreasonable.
Depending how usable you want to pieces after ward an angle grinder would probably do it.
Thanks, Brian. I have found some useful stuff online, but there's nowt like experience.
N
Yeah, if I can't find a home for it, the angle grinder will be used to shorten the rail. But not until I've got it outside!
NNeil Bush scribbled...
Plenty of them for sale on ebay.
Usually by removing the rail end cap and winding it off using the hand winder.
Yup, that was my experience with the one I did (although that was minivator rather than stennah)
How nice of them, they supplied and fitted it for a good few grand, now they will charge you to take it away so they can 'refurbish' it and re-sell it to someone else,
I bet they played the 'all installs are custom, so your lift wont fit in any other house' hence we can't pay you anything for it.
Friend of a friend's dad had one installed, he died 2 or 3 weeks later, stannah played the 'custom' thing to remove it without giving the family anything back, stairs were straight and the same in all the houses on the estate that was rapidly becoming an old peoples complex.
According to the gremlins, if you speed the motor up it will come off the top of the rail easily :)
Does that bloke a few weeks ago who wanted to install a lift in his house still want to? if the rails are straight they might be the ideal things for him, mount a rail on each wall, remove the chairs leaving the motor, cogs and all that behind, build a lift cage fixed to the motor units, sorted... tho you will want to speed them up a fair bit, stair lifts are damn slow for some reason (i bet many people using them wished they had a commode feature built into the chair whilst waiting for it to slowly take them upstairs to the bog :)
It happens that Gazz formulated :
There are numerous of the stair lift companies offering refurbished units, so most will end up being reintalled at a reduced price. They fetch not a lot on Ebay, it was one of the options I looked at to buy one.
I'd need the GT version, which got me upstairs before I had forgotten what I went up for!
+1
It always struck me as very patronising that these manufacturers think thei r customers have no life, and dont mind spending 5 minutes just going up th e stairs. A smaller motor must make them an extra £5-10 profit, but at wh at cost to the user? 2 or 3 trips upstairs a day x5mins = 76 hours per ye ar, or 760 hours per 10 years of use. Sheet.
NT
Where's the angle grinder man when you actually need him
:-)
tim
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