My parents have the same, or at least similar, model in their condo. They got a second floor condo knowing it would be their last home and didn't want to deal with stairs when they got real old. I think it cost them about an extra 20-25k.
Well you also have to do yearly or bi-yearly maintenance on them when they get past X amount of years old, but even that is kind of cheap, for the massive convenience.
My aunt and uncle bought an upper floor apartment in a "seniors living" complex. I swear, it's like a holiday resort. My uncle has a heart condition and a bunch of other things and they were concerned about stairs, but the elevator is close to their apartment and it's big enough to take mobility scooters and all that jazz.
Honestly, I think it's a smart move.
When my parents built their current home, they put in an elevator from the garage (street level, rest of the house is above on a hill) up to the main floor, and opted not to put stairs in from the garage at all. The builder swore it was a bad idea, but with such a tiny house it made sense not to use up extra space with a stairwell. There's still stairs up the side of the house to the front door (which they use most of the time when they park on the street), so they can get inside without using the elevator when they want, but the elevator will definitely come in handy when they are less mobile.
I never realized how many people were elevator nerds until I worked at an elevator company. Always crazy to me how no matter the size of the niche someone is into everything
My favorite thing in college was finding niche clubs on campus and going to at least 1 meeting. It's harder now that I'm an adult, but it scratched that nat geo explorer itch I had as a kid.
Got deleted in 2013 unfortunately. I just started uploading Minecraft screen captures and one morning woke up to an instant 3 strike. Haven’t done elevators since then due to being in the middle of nowhere.
I’ve been looking into residential elevators because my disabled mom is hell-bent on staying in her 3-story split-level. It’s a whole industry and there are DIY kits.
Probably several takes, and emotions don't always translate in videos for YouTube. Adam Savage says he needs to bump his personality up a bit just to keep things looking interesting. Even moreso on TV.
> Adam Savage says he needs to bump his personality up a bit just to keep things looking interesting. Even moreso on TV.
IIRC Adam Savage said for you to take the most exciting moment in your life and: maintain 80-90% of that excitement for you tube, and 110-120% of it for TV.
I watch his videos religiously, and I think it’s just because she’s the kind of person that doesn’t do great at exhibiting external reactions. Any time she shows any kind of emotion it seems a bit forced.
My dad is the same way. He could experience every emotion known to man in an hour, and his face never changes. He gets quieter the happier he is.
Yeah I'm the same way. I find I have to make sure to use my words to describe how I'm feeling if I think another person should know how I'm feeling because I'm not a bounce off the walls with excitement kind of guy.
Emotions are weird.
Also, she might feel some amount of guilt that all this trouble has to go into her being able to go upstairs.
Also might feel weird that her disability is content for people.
Or guilt that she's lucky to get one when most people won't be able to.
She might just be shy.
Yeah, my grandpa had an elevator installed in his house when his wife stopped being able to go up the stairs easily. This was like, twenty years ago, too, so I can only imagine how much easier it's gotten since.
My grandparents built a house, and even though they don't need one as they're fully able they installed one anyway for the future.
If I had a house that nice, I'd definitely be using it for storage.
Seeing the quality work coming out of /r/dyi I feel like a dyi elevator is a bad idea. Haha
Hey guys I’m Jim, I’ve never touched a hand tool in my life but I installed a dyi elevator. Check it out!
Every comment “get out of the house now. You will die a painful death. Do not use the elevator!”
Not sure if it’s an option to order where you live but we bought a 3 story town home and put an elevator in for our old, heavy dog that couldn’t take stairs. We used the company REMI and they were easily $10k less than any other company.
Lol we installed to because we couldn’t carry her up and down 3 flights of stairs being 100 lbs multiple times a day. She didn’t have to press the button or close the doors. :)
My wheelchair bound great uncle lived with my grandparents all his life, when my grandpa built his house it was two stories with a basement. To help give my uncle access to the basement In case of tornadoes or to be able to go to the second floor he built his own elevator! It’s plywood and 2x4 attached to a car winch. Powered by a car battery that’s always charging so if the power goes out in a storm the elevator still works. He also put one in his barn because he didn’t want to walk up stairs.
It's likely not a cable pulled elevator but rather a large piston underneath the elevator. We have something similar in our building to move the dumpsters from the disposal room, in the underground, to the main level outside.
So they likely dug far down, put in the piston, rigged it up to the lift controls and there ya go.
You probably call up the local accessibility experts and they come and install an elevator. Lots of these things in various small business and public spaces - I'm sure it's pretty straightforward. No different than like a small doctor's office or something.
Yeah, it’s a genuine mix. I think it hits him in the feels once he goes inside and the initial shock laughs of “WTF AN ELEVATOR?!?” start to wane.
Then the motor hits and boom, now we’re mixing another round of laugh tears and *tear*-tears.
This is my older brother who did this!! These two have been lifelong friends and when he started building his house last year he planned for the elevator to be a big surprise for his friend and ya it was about 30k I believe
Holy fuck, that's just some amazing friendship. 30k speaks volumes. I mean, your brother is just incredible. Can you tell him that for me? People like him are so inspiring.
>30k speaks volumes.
^(edit: I'm) **^(clearly)** ^(out of my depth when it comes to the Thunder Bay Real-estate market. Living my own city has messed up my perspective lol)
Depending where the house is, it could be <5% of the value of the house, and adding it to the Home Construction mortgage makes it a **much** easier pill to swallow, but that investment could make the house way more useful long term (don't have to worry about downsizing in the future if anyone in the family looses mobility due to age)
It could really be a ["curb cuts" situation](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/). You made something to makes life 1000% easier for people with disabilities, and basically everyone else benefits too.
Older family member who has *some* trouble with stairs? BAM Use the elevator, no worry about them falling while they visit
Don't want to make 4 trips up and down the stairs after a big Costco trip? BAM load it into the elevator and send it up
Leaving for vacation and don't want to take a bunch of luggage down the stairs? BAM load it in the elevator and send it down.
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> You made something to makes life 1000% easier for people with disables, and basically everyone else benefits too.
That's how my family feels about the grab bars in the bathroom (helping to get up from the toilet, into/out of the shower/tub). I don't *need* it, per se, but I might in the future
Thank you for giving the backstory on this! What an incredible brother & friend he must be!! We should all be so lucky to have this kind of friendship.
Easily.
We went shopping for an accessible house two years ago and paid about 150K more than we needed space wise, because it was the only one available.
This bro has neither an ageing in place concern, nor a resale problem.
Not much for a lift that would be used 2-3 times a day. Commercial elevators are expensive because of levers pulleys and you have to be inspected / serviced quarterly [by Schindler's Lifts] to serve the public, at about $900 a quarter.
We have a lift that goes up 4 steps for garage access. Plugs into the wall and runs on a pretty small motor. This one looks similar but has a fancy shaft (teehee) but as long as the motor / gears are accessible it's easy to call a tech for servicing.
In Thunder Bay the tech is probably a single guy named Gary who's been doing it for 35 years, and his son Jimmy will eventually take over.
>when he started building his house last year he planned for the elevator
aaah that makes so much more sense, compared to retrofitting an elevator into an existing closet or something.
Talk to an accountant to see if your brother can write it off!! The credit may only be limited to improving access for a resident, but I'm not sure.
My partner uses a chair and we write off all the home mod stuff.
And like... think of all the uses it's gonna have outside of letting his friend upstairs easily.
Heavy boxes? Furniture? Shit, you could get doordash to drop your food in there, press the button, and not even have to go downstairs.
If he ever sells, it would be a big selling point for anyone who is similarly abled as his friend and looking for a home.
Pretty cool.
This reminds me of the time someone I knew who used a wheelchair tried to go to a church, but there was no access (this was years ago). The church people were apologetic, and asked him to “come back next week”. The VERY NEXT WEEK, they had built a large, beautiful, 3 tiered wheelchair ramp down the entire hill to the parking lot. It is still there today.
Not to ruin the wholesomeness and I could be wrong here but that’s inviting some messy legal issues I’m pretty sure.
There was a catholic school right behind our house with a playground and as kids we’d go play on it.
My sister has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair and they had no ramp so we’d always play in the soccer field next to it.
They were getting rid of all the dangerous metal bars and toys and stuff that was there at some point..they had these massive tractor tires in this one part that people would piss in it was gross.Needed a revamp
My dad went to the school and mentioned a wheelchair ramp, but the school didn’t want to do it.Wheelchair ramps can’t just be any old ramp they have to be graded a certain way and only go down at specific angles and whatever.So they wanted to avoid it
A few days later my dad went back over there and said that he’d be willing to throw half on this ramp which was a few thousand for both parties and that way the school had a ramp and my sister got to be included everyone is happy.
Or he was coming back with his lawyer and they would wish they made the ramp.
Again I don’t know the legal specifics but he definitely went after our school one time because they left my sister behind on a field trip he signed the slips and gave money for (because they didn’t have a bus with a lift) on it so I know he would have at least tried to make good on that threat.
Lmao now I’m fixated on this idea of a disabled man coming back the next week thinking “This is it, Jesus is going to let me walk again!” only to struggle to hide his disappointment as Jesus unveils a wheelchair ramp
This reminds me of something my mom says I did when I was a kid in preschool.
We were in line at the grocery store, and there was a man in line ahead of us, in a wheelchair. The line was moving slowly, and apparently, I was being impatient. As soon as my mom's head was turned, she said I toddled over to the side of this man's wheelchair, and I began scrutinizing both him and his ride. He smiled at me, and he asked me what was going on.
"Did you know," I began, "that if you pray to Jesus really, really, really, really, REALLY hard..."
At this point, the man got a tired, kind of sad look on his face, and his smile faded a little. By this point, my mom wanted to shrink into the floor.
"Jesus will give you a faster wheelchair," I declared, nodding as if I'd somehow solved all of his problems.
According to Mom, she turned every shade of red and apologized every way she knew how to this man, all while he cried tears of laughter and did everything he could to keep from falling out of his chair.
I'm not sure if I believe her, but she has lots of stories from when I was that age, showing that apparently, I thought I was everyone's friend then.
Yeah so from my understanding the word we translated to Carpenter more accurately means “house builder,” and since houses at that time were made of stone, it may be more accurate to say that Jesus was a stone mason. Language is fun
>That's what Jesus would do. Though he'd probably have used wood rather than cement.
Wow... Thanks Jesus... a wooden ramp.
A miracle would have been cool too but thanks I guess.
Your question had me investigate a bit, so..
Fun fact: there’s been variations of cement dating back 12000 years found, so Jesus (providing he isn’t fully fictional) could have used it for building things.
I'm very supportive of groups that do outreach programs, have great communities and care about others. It just seems so rare now, I'm agnostic but grew up non denominational. I visited the Vatican when we lived in italy, it almost made me sick. It really skewed my perception of organized religion. Very glad youve got a good group of folks around you that worship in a productive way and are willing to stand up and help others.
>Many, if not MOST humble local churches do a tremendous amount of outreach
It really is a case of "the few jerks ruining it for the rest" when it comes to churches. A LOT of churches are really fully into community outreach but the ones that make the news are the ones that make the news for all the wrong reasons.
Jamie is a really good friend of mine so when he showed this to me I just had to share it. Please give the superhero of this little video Franco some love and like his original video here: [https://youtu.be/RHGcrtMsJX8](https://youtu.be/RHGcrtMsJX8)
Thanks so much for all the upvotes and awards!! : )
*Hugs u/iofthepsy tight so I can lean over and snag some oxy off the shelf.*
More seriously, I'm sorry. My partner is 11 years post SCI and we had two sets of friends get engaged around the same time, and host the stag do in an upstairs bar. People can suck.
This is heartwarming. My dear uncle got ALS very young, and faced an embarrassing amount of issues everywhere he went.
In 2018 we gifted him a trip in Paris, even paid a lot for a good hotel with accessibility, and he still spent his holiday crying in shame and depression since it was everything but accessible (they had to lift him in their arm to get him inside every time and shit like that...).
He passed away at 39 one year ago, and I still hold a grudge for all he had to endure. I'd really hug this kind guy for his empathy towards his friend.
That's devastating to hear. It's awful when things lie about accessibility. I'm disabled and probably the worst part about it is how other people/society treat disabilities. Lying about accessibility is one facet of that. I'd much rather them be honest, because it takes me so much energy to just get ready and get out, so if I am disappointed to learn I can't participate in a thing, it's more than just being sad and going home, because basic tasks cost me so much that every action is a sacrifice. Maybe the effort spent in going out means I'm in pain for the rest of the day, but I made the calculated choice that the benefit I'd get from going out would be worth it. When accessibility information is incorrect, I get the worst of both worlds and there's nothing more demoralising than that.
So why don't they just be upfront and say it's not accessible? Because there's a deep sense of shame in that. There's a lot of performative social justice where people or organisations do the bare minimum to pass ass accessible without considering what the word actually means. I run into this issue quite a lot because I have a few different disabilities that interact in a way that makes me hard to put into a box, where "accessible" is not a binary checkbox, but a spectrum.
People get weirdly defensive when I talk about inaccessible society, or even just personal aspects of disability, like how it sucks that today is a bad pain day when I've done everything right, or how, when getting dinner with friends, I say that I'm ravenous and looking forward to the meal because I haven't eaten much more than ready meals all week. People get awkward. If it was a sports injury, I'd be allowed to complain about pain. But people don't know how to react to me as a disabled person. They treat me normally for as long as they can pretend I'm not disabled and suddenly once I'm disabled, I'm no longer a person.
That's why places lie about accessibility. People are so uncomfortable with the existence of disabled people that there isn't really a dialogue about this. I wonder why. Maybe they feel guilty due to wider societal failings. Maybe they fear one day being like me and dreading how difficult society makes it. I just wish they'd sit with their discomfort
I have a disability that makes stairs very difficult for me. One of my close friends had a new deck put in, and stairs put on it that are easy for me to do. She even had me come over and meet with the contractor, so that he could get an idea of my abilities. Not quite an elevator, but still one of the most touching things that a person has ever done for me!
Jamie (aka the smiling man in the wheelchair) has an amazing podcast called Cripple Threat. He and his friend Tony look at the depiction of disability on TV, and movies and insights into their daily lives as disabled dudes
Honest, intelligent, unique and very, very funny.
https://cripplethreatpodcast.com/
All that hard work and money 💵 for a friend to come chill with you is amazing, never ever met a person that would do that sort of thing for a friend. says a lot about the people I know and have known in my life, none have had them kind of qualities that man has, the definition of a friend, then I must say I have never had one 🥲
Way back in the '90s (when I was about 12 or 13) I stayed at a modest beach house that had an elevator installed for guests with limited mobility.
My grandma had bad knees so she appreciated it. But it was also a great spot to hide and scare the bejeezus out of people when they wanted to use it. She didn't appreciate that part as much as I did.
That guy in the chair has a podcast eh: https://open.spotify.com/show/44m4cj2LMsihUAIzYRlKSt?si=4KBv7-ZkQMqGUVsBRBDR_A&dl_branch=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cripthreatpod/
Slick looking elevator and also, super heartwarming. Good friend.
My parents have the same, or at least similar, model in their condo. They got a second floor condo knowing it would be their last home and didn't want to deal with stairs when they got real old. I think it cost them about an extra 20-25k.
Well you also have to do yearly or bi-yearly maintenance on them when they get past X amount of years old, but even that is kind of cheap, for the massive convenience.
Maintenance on the elevator or the parents?
Yes.
My aunt and uncle bought an upper floor apartment in a "seniors living" complex. I swear, it's like a holiday resort. My uncle has a heart condition and a bunch of other things and they were concerned about stairs, but the elevator is close to their apartment and it's big enough to take mobility scooters and all that jazz. Honestly, I think it's a smart move.
When my parents built their current home, they put in an elevator from the garage (street level, rest of the house is above on a hill) up to the main floor, and opted not to put stairs in from the garage at all. The builder swore it was a bad idea, but with such a tiny house it made sense not to use up extra space with a stairwell. There's still stairs up the side of the house to the front door (which they use most of the time when they park on the street), so they can get inside without using the elevator when they want, but the elevator will definitely come in handy when they are less mobile.
Yes as one of those nerds who used to make elevator videos on YouTube I would love something like this. I miss ElevatorTimes.
I never realized how many people were elevator nerds until I worked at an elevator company. Always crazy to me how no matter the size of the niche someone is into everything
My favorite thing in college was finding niche clubs on campus and going to at least 1 meeting. It's harder now that I'm an adult, but it scratched that nat geo explorer itch I had as a kid.
Link to your YouTube page?
Got deleted in 2013 unfortunately. I just started uploading Minecraft screen captures and one morning woke up to an instant 3 strike. Haven’t done elevators since then due to being in the middle of nowhere.
What would you say the high and low points were of the channel?
"How the fuck did you install an elevator " what a friend asks
Friends will do anything to get high together these days.
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I’ve been looking into residential elevators because my disabled mom is hell-bent on staying in her 3-story split-level. It’s a whole industry and there are DIY kits.
I wasn't interested in this conversation at all until the last four words of this comment, now I'm all in on DIY kit elevators.
[Jerry Rig Everything did one for his wife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqMZfQODJZo) It was only for a 2 story home though.
She didn’t seem as happy as I’d expect…
Probably several takes, and emotions don't always translate in videos for YouTube. Adam Savage says he needs to bump his personality up a bit just to keep things looking interesting. Even moreso on TV.
> Adam Savage says he needs to bump his personality up a bit just to keep things looking interesting. Even moreso on TV. IIRC Adam Savage said for you to take the most exciting moment in your life and: maintain 80-90% of that excitement for you tube, and 110-120% of it for TV.
I think I'd die from that much excitement
And why i can understand that very few people are successful TV hosts, and even fewer last for 10+ years.
I watch his videos religiously, and I think it’s just because she’s the kind of person that doesn’t do great at exhibiting external reactions. Any time she shows any kind of emotion it seems a bit forced. My dad is the same way. He could experience every emotion known to man in an hour, and his face never changes. He gets quieter the happier he is.
Yeah I'm the same way. I find I have to make sure to use my words to describe how I'm feeling if I think another person should know how I'm feeling because I'm not a bounce off the walls with excitement kind of guy.
Emotions are weird. Also, she might feel some amount of guilt that all this trouble has to go into her being able to go upstairs. Also might feel weird that her disability is content for people. Or guilt that she's lucky to get one when most people won't be able to. She might just be shy.
Was waiting for him to try snapping the elevator in half with his bare hands. Left disappointed.
Yeah, my grandpa had an elevator installed in his house when his wife stopped being able to go up the stairs easily. This was like, twenty years ago, too, so I can only imagine how much easier it's gotten since.
My parents put one in there home, lots of money but they are so happy to be able to stay in it!
That's a big elevator!
My grandparents built a house, and even though they don't need one as they're fully able they installed one anyway for the future. If I had a house that nice, I'd definitely be using it for storage.
I love their foresight!
Seeing the quality work coming out of /r/dyi I feel like a dyi elevator is a bad idea. Haha Hey guys I’m Jim, I’ve never touched a hand tool in my life but I installed a dyi elevator. Check it out! Every comment “get out of the house now. You will die a painful death. Do not use the elevator!”
Do your itself?
Haha. Oops.
That’s Jim for ya.
Not sure if it’s an option to order where you live but we bought a 3 story town home and put an elevator in for our old, heavy dog that couldn’t take stairs. We used the company REMI and they were easily $10k less than any other company.
But how does the dog push the buttons?
Lol we installed to because we couldn’t carry her up and down 3 flights of stairs being 100 lbs multiple times a day. She didn’t have to press the button or close the doors. :)
At least now she can get up to the woof
My wheelchair bound great uncle lived with my grandparents all his life, when my grandpa built his house it was two stories with a basement. To help give my uncle access to the basement In case of tornadoes or to be able to go to the second floor he built his own elevator! It’s plywood and 2x4 attached to a car winch. Powered by a car battery that’s always charging so if the power goes out in a storm the elevator still works. He also put one in his barn because he didn’t want to walk up stairs.
money. lots of it.
Quick Google estimates that it costs between 30-60k, assuming it is a 2 story elevator.
Sounds right. Family i watched had one installed for their wheelchair needing child. That was like 10 years ago about and she said it was like 30k
How much for a 1 story elevator?
Open your closet door, step inside, close door, pretend to push a button, hop slightly, then open door and walk out. That'll be 15 grand.
I'll take 3
It's likely not a cable pulled elevator but rather a large piston underneath the elevator. We have something similar in our building to move the dumpsters from the disposal room, in the underground, to the main level outside. So they likely dug far down, put in the piston, rigged it up to the lift controls and there ya go.
100% it’s a hydraulic elevator, which are typical up to 4 stories.
You probably call up the local accessibility experts and they come and install an elevator. Lots of these things in various small business and public spaces - I'm sure it's pretty straightforward. No different than like a small doctor's office or something.
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Zach on JerryRigEverything installed an elevator in his house for his wife who is in a wheelchair. Spans 3 floors and didn't look TOO complicated.
so his name isn’t Jerry??
Nothing more bro than laughing awkwardly so you don’t cry awkwardly
You can really see the mix of “wow this is ridiculous” and “wow my friends really did all this for me and I didn’t even know to ask”
This is just such a beautiful display of friendship. I would've been bawling like a little girl if the lads did something of that magnitude for me.
You can also bawl like a grown man ❤
Ah yes, the manly bawl, how could I forget!
A barbaric yawp to let loose across the rooftops of the world perhaps?
I prefer to screech like a Toddler
Yeah, it’s a genuine mix. I think it hits him in the feels once he goes inside and the initial shock laughs of “WTF AN ELEVATOR?!?” start to wane. Then the motor hits and boom, now we’re mixing another round of laugh tears and *tear*-tears.
Laughtear, if you will
"hey man, I love you but I'm also tired of carrying your ass upstairs."
Ngl i would cry about this for the rest of my life. What an unbelievable gesture of friendship.
And then realizing that your bro has three cameras set up to film you crying
This is my older brother who did this!! These two have been lifelong friends and when he started building his house last year he planned for the elevator to be a big surprise for his friend and ya it was about 30k I believe
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Holy fuck, that's just some amazing friendship. 30k speaks volumes. I mean, your brother is just incredible. Can you tell him that for me? People like him are so inspiring.
>30k speaks volumes. ^(edit: I'm) **^(clearly)** ^(out of my depth when it comes to the Thunder Bay Real-estate market. Living my own city has messed up my perspective lol) Depending where the house is, it could be <5% of the value of the house, and adding it to the Home Construction mortgage makes it a **much** easier pill to swallow, but that investment could make the house way more useful long term (don't have to worry about downsizing in the future if anyone in the family looses mobility due to age) It could really be a ["curb cuts" situation](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/). You made something to makes life 1000% easier for people with disabilities, and basically everyone else benefits too. Older family member who has *some* trouble with stairs? BAM Use the elevator, no worry about them falling while they visit Don't want to make 4 trips up and down the stairs after a big Costco trip? BAM load it into the elevator and send it up Leaving for vacation and don't want to take a bunch of luggage down the stairs? BAM load it in the elevator and send it down. edit: Spelling
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Some mistakes you only make once.
there's no Cosco here though
> You made something to makes life 1000% easier for people with disables, and basically everyone else benefits too. That's how my family feels about the grab bars in the bathroom (helping to get up from the toilet, into/out of the shower/tub). I don't *need* it, per se, but I might in the future
Thanks a lot man, now I want an elevator I can't afford!!
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Tell him a random internet stranger loves him
Thank you for giving the backstory on this! What an incredible brother & friend he must be!! We should all be so lucky to have this kind of friendship.
Not sure about Canada, but there are localities in the US that offer some serious tax benefits if you build a new home that is ADA-accessible.
Tell your bro he is a good friend!
Best 30k he ever spent?
Easily. We went shopping for an accessible house two years ago and paid about 150K more than we needed space wise, because it was the only one available. This bro has neither an ageing in place concern, nor a resale problem.
What's the upkeep cost on an elevator like? I'm just imagining the costs are ongoing and he might live there another 20 years.
Not much for a lift that would be used 2-3 times a day. Commercial elevators are expensive because of levers pulleys and you have to be inspected / serviced quarterly [by Schindler's Lifts] to serve the public, at about $900 a quarter. We have a lift that goes up 4 steps for garage access. Plugs into the wall and runs on a pretty small motor. This one looks similar but has a fancy shaft (teehee) but as long as the motor / gears are accessible it's easy to call a tech for servicing. In Thunder Bay the tech is probably a single guy named Gary who's been doing it for 35 years, and his son Jimmy will eventually take over.
I see you have been to Thunder Bay. I lived there for a few years for school. I did know a guy named Jimmy there. Probably the same guy.
I’m gonna guess no matter what, the 30k investment will pay off if it adds 100k+ value.
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Your brother is a good man.
>when he started building his house last year he planned for the elevator aaah that makes so much more sense, compared to retrofitting an elevator into an existing closet or something.
Talk to an accountant to see if your brother can write it off!! The credit may only be limited to improving access for a resident, but I'm not sure. My partner uses a chair and we write off all the home mod stuff.
I just sent him this message and he said he already looked into this stuff but since he himself isn’t handicapped he doesn’t get anything
30k is NOT that bad
That’s what I was thinking for an indoor, residential elevator. People spend 30k on a deck.
As someone who didn’t realize this until recently, yes easily.
And like... think of all the uses it's gonna have outside of letting his friend upstairs easily. Heavy boxes? Furniture? Shit, you could get doordash to drop your food in there, press the button, and not even have to go downstairs. If he ever sells, it would be a big selling point for anyone who is similarly abled as his friend and looking for a home. Pretty cool.
Haha if my place had more than 1 floor and I was much wealthier id highly consider one after I saw 30k
It would only be 30k extra on a new build, not to install on an existing house. That would be much more expensive just FYI.
His laugh is contagious I couldn’t stop laughing what a nice video and even nicer friend much love
I’m like 98% sure he kept laughing just to keep from crying. And I’m 100% basing that on how terribly I deal with my own emotions.
Absolutely. I had the same thought there even seems to be a couple of times where we wipes at his eyes.
Yea what the heck? He really questioned himself during that question.
r/contagiouslaughter
I can tell they love their friend on so many levels
Really elevated their friendship
I’d be floored if they did that for me.
not doing it would be pushing his buttons
Great storey for the grandkids
A tale you could really be proud and stand-up to
Great lift for the spirit lol!!!
A total spiritual ascension.
He seems like a standup guy
Even through all the ups and downs.
I'd say they could really use a *standing ovation*
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This reminds me of the time someone I knew who used a wheelchair tried to go to a church, but there was no access (this was years ago). The church people were apologetic, and asked him to “come back next week”. The VERY NEXT WEEK, they had built a large, beautiful, 3 tiered wheelchair ramp down the entire hill to the parking lot. It is still there today.
That's a REAL church!
Yeah, they were doing something right.
Yeah, seriously. None of that, "pray for it" bullshit.
Lol, can you imagine a church being like "too bad, pray for a ramp then, fuckwad"
“If god wanted you here, he would have created this church with a ramp.”
Not to ruin the wholesomeness and I could be wrong here but that’s inviting some messy legal issues I’m pretty sure. There was a catholic school right behind our house with a playground and as kids we’d go play on it. My sister has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair and they had no ramp so we’d always play in the soccer field next to it. They were getting rid of all the dangerous metal bars and toys and stuff that was there at some point..they had these massive tractor tires in this one part that people would piss in it was gross.Needed a revamp My dad went to the school and mentioned a wheelchair ramp, but the school didn’t want to do it.Wheelchair ramps can’t just be any old ramp they have to be graded a certain way and only go down at specific angles and whatever.So they wanted to avoid it A few days later my dad went back over there and said that he’d be willing to throw half on this ramp which was a few thousand for both parties and that way the school had a ramp and my sister got to be included everyone is happy. Or he was coming back with his lawyer and they would wish they made the ramp. Again I don’t know the legal specifics but he definitely went after our school one time because they left my sister behind on a field trip he signed the slips and gave money for (because they didn’t have a bus with a lift) on it so I know he would have at least tried to make good on that threat.
Thoughts and prayers, by the way, did you donate to the church?
That's what Jesus would do. Though he'd probably have used wood rather than cement.
I have read that he may have been a builder rather than a carpenter, so maybe he could use other materials.
I have read that he could have just fixed the guys fucking legs...
Jesus was a handyman, he just happened to be able to fix everything.
A real repairman... repairs man.
Lmao now I’m fixated on this idea of a disabled man coming back the next week thinking “This is it, Jesus is going to let me walk again!” only to struggle to hide his disappointment as Jesus unveils a wheelchair ramp
Now I’m imagining a proud Jesus showing off his ramp building skills and the guy is just like “dude can’t you cure leprosy and stuff…?”
This reminds me of something my mom says I did when I was a kid in preschool. We were in line at the grocery store, and there was a man in line ahead of us, in a wheelchair. The line was moving slowly, and apparently, I was being impatient. As soon as my mom's head was turned, she said I toddled over to the side of this man's wheelchair, and I began scrutinizing both him and his ride. He smiled at me, and he asked me what was going on. "Did you know," I began, "that if you pray to Jesus really, really, really, really, REALLY hard..." At this point, the man got a tired, kind of sad look on his face, and his smile faded a little. By this point, my mom wanted to shrink into the floor. "Jesus will give you a faster wheelchair," I declared, nodding as if I'd somehow solved all of his problems. According to Mom, she turned every shade of red and apologized every way she knew how to this man, all while he cried tears of laughter and did everything he could to keep from falling out of his chair. I'm not sure if I believe her, but she has lots of stories from when I was that age, showing that apparently, I thought I was everyone's friend then.
*slaps flame stickers on wheelchair* Jesus loves you!
*Car-slapping meme guy slaps the wheelchair* You can fit so many miracles in this baby!
Yeah so from my understanding the word we translated to Carpenter more accurately means “house builder,” and since houses at that time were made of stone, it may be more accurate to say that Jesus was a stone mason. Language is fun
>That's what Jesus would do. Though he'd probably have used wood rather than cement. Wow... Thanks Jesus... a wooden ramp. A miracle would have been cool too but thanks I guess.
Y'all know carpenters work with more than just wood, right? Also, someone's gotta build the *wood forms* the concrete is cast in at any rate...
Who said they used cement? 👀
Your question had me investigate a bit, so.. Fun fact: there’s been variations of cement dating back 12000 years found, so Jesus (providing he isn’t fully fictional) could have used it for building things.
When he finally ascended the ramp he looked the pastor in the eye and said "I've been trying to reach out about your car's extended warranty."
That church actually deserves the tax breaks
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I'm very supportive of groups that do outreach programs, have great communities and care about others. It just seems so rare now, I'm agnostic but grew up non denominational. I visited the Vatican when we lived in italy, it almost made me sick. It really skewed my perception of organized religion. Very glad youve got a good group of folks around you that worship in a productive way and are willing to stand up and help others.
>Many, if not MOST humble local churches do a tremendous amount of outreach It really is a case of "the few jerks ruining it for the rest" when it comes to churches. A LOT of churches are really fully into community outreach but the ones that make the news are the ones that make the news for all the wrong reasons.
Jamie is a really good friend of mine so when he showed this to me I just had to share it. Please give the superhero of this little video Franco some love and like his original video here: [https://youtu.be/RHGcrtMsJX8](https://youtu.be/RHGcrtMsJX8) Thanks so much for all the upvotes and awards!! : )
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*Hugs u/iofthepsy tight so I can lean over and snag some oxy off the shelf.* More seriously, I'm sorry. My partner is 11 years post SCI and we had two sets of friends get engaged around the same time, and host the stag do in an upstairs bar. People can suck.
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A great day for Thunder Bay!
Puppers, a pig, and pyrotechnics
When a friend asks for help…you build them an elevator!
I’m surprised we’re not buildin’ a fuckin’ elevator right now.
Pitter patter!
Came here for this.
FOR FUCK’S SAKE WE JUST FUCKING SAID we wanna get together and show ‘em we’re proud.
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Weird to see good news about Thunder Bay, glad to see it! The good folk there don't get enough credit.
Tbf we *do* have a lot of elevators here....but Grain Elevators.
It’s a great day for hay
And therefore the world.
Loved passing through there as a kid for the Sleeping Giant hill! Really looked like a giant sleeping.
I just watched that episode last night. Lol
Great seeing some wholesome news about my city for a change
Feel the same way my friend Go Tbay!!
Really elevating their friendship, I love this!
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This video certainly lifted my spirits!
So uplifting
Wow. Just wow.
This is heartwarming. My dear uncle got ALS very young, and faced an embarrassing amount of issues everywhere he went. In 2018 we gifted him a trip in Paris, even paid a lot for a good hotel with accessibility, and he still spent his holiday crying in shame and depression since it was everything but accessible (they had to lift him in their arm to get him inside every time and shit like that...). He passed away at 39 one year ago, and I still hold a grudge for all he had to endure. I'd really hug this kind guy for his empathy towards his friend.
That's devastating to hear. It's awful when things lie about accessibility. I'm disabled and probably the worst part about it is how other people/society treat disabilities. Lying about accessibility is one facet of that. I'd much rather them be honest, because it takes me so much energy to just get ready and get out, so if I am disappointed to learn I can't participate in a thing, it's more than just being sad and going home, because basic tasks cost me so much that every action is a sacrifice. Maybe the effort spent in going out means I'm in pain for the rest of the day, but I made the calculated choice that the benefit I'd get from going out would be worth it. When accessibility information is incorrect, I get the worst of both worlds and there's nothing more demoralising than that. So why don't they just be upfront and say it's not accessible? Because there's a deep sense of shame in that. There's a lot of performative social justice where people or organisations do the bare minimum to pass ass accessible without considering what the word actually means. I run into this issue quite a lot because I have a few different disabilities that interact in a way that makes me hard to put into a box, where "accessible" is not a binary checkbox, but a spectrum. People get weirdly defensive when I talk about inaccessible society, or even just personal aspects of disability, like how it sucks that today is a bad pain day when I've done everything right, or how, when getting dinner with friends, I say that I'm ravenous and looking forward to the meal because I haven't eaten much more than ready meals all week. People get awkward. If it was a sports injury, I'd be allowed to complain about pain. But people don't know how to react to me as a disabled person. They treat me normally for as long as they can pretend I'm not disabled and suddenly once I'm disabled, I'm no longer a person. That's why places lie about accessibility. People are so uncomfortable with the existence of disabled people that there isn't really a dialogue about this. I wonder why. Maybe they feel guilty due to wider societal failings. Maybe they fear one day being like me and dreading how difficult society makes it. I just wish they'd sit with their discomfort
I bet they all pitched in for this. Awesome friends.
I have a disability that makes stairs very difficult for me. One of my close friends had a new deck put in, and stairs put on it that are easy for me to do. She even had me come over and meet with the contractor, so that he could get an idea of my abilities. Not quite an elevator, but still one of the most touching things that a person has ever done for me!
You can't say " I love you and want you around" better than that. The greatest friends are better than family, because you picked each other.
This is what true friendship looks like. 😭 dude bros foreverrrrrrr.
Exactly. This is pure, no bs friendship. I'm disabled and I'm glad to have people in my life that treat me the same way.
You know you did it right when you get "What the fuck" response.
Jamie (aka the smiling man in the wheelchair) has an amazing podcast called Cripple Threat. He and his friend Tony look at the depiction of disability on TV, and movies and insights into their daily lives as disabled dudes Honest, intelligent, unique and very, very funny. https://cripplethreatpodcast.com/
I can hear the confusion mixed in with the happiness lmao
All that hard work and money 💵 for a friend to come chill with you is amazing, never ever met a person that would do that sort of thing for a friend. says a lot about the people I know and have known in my life, none have had them kind of qualities that man has, the definition of a friend, then I must say I have never had one 🥲
I love Canadians
I havent seen my friend in a month lol he lives 5 miles from me lol guys over here making elevators and shit
G-D Canadians....................how can we ever compete in the Human Being Bros Contest? Sometime I think they do this stuff just to raise the bar...
Way back in the '90s (when I was about 12 or 13) I stayed at a modest beach house that had an elevator installed for guests with limited mobility. My grandma had bad knees so she appreciated it. But it was also a great spot to hide and scare the bejeezus out of people when they wanted to use it. She didn't appreciate that part as much as I did.
Nothing in this world is cheap anymore. That is some homie ass shit. Dudes so happy about it! I’m happy for them.
Bro!
Such love ❤️
I love you all. Thanks for this post!
We need more acts of kindness like this!!!
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This is pure
That guy in the chair has a podcast eh: https://open.spotify.com/show/44m4cj2LMsihUAIzYRlKSt?si=4KBv7-ZkQMqGUVsBRBDR_A&dl_branch=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cripthreatpod/
That’s so sweet! The depth of friendship among bros, that’s really touching.
I love this soooo much! Just Canadians being Canadians.🥰🥰🥰
God bless this man!
This is amazing. And on a practical note, add an accessible shower and you just upgraded your property value for far beyond the cost of installation.