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1. 
   MrBill | Oct 08, 2008 05:32am | #1

   Edward,

    No idea on current prices, but FHB had an article about them a couple of years ago. One interesting point they made was that you could build the elevator shaft even if you did not need the elevator right away. Then if the conditions changed, install the mechanicals later.

   Bill Koustenis

   Advanced Automotive Machine

   Waldorf Md

2. 
   Jim_Allen | Oct 08, 2008 01:19pm | #2

   25k for two levels.

   Someone just sent me a home elevator link.

   http://www.residentialelevators.com/index.htm

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   FastEddie | Oct 08, 2008 03:03pm | #3

   Yep.  I worked on a new house about 5 yrs ago where the builder was incorporating an elevator and it was about $10k for 2 floors.

   "Put your creed in your deed."   Emerson

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

   Edited 10/8/2008 8:04 am ET by FastEddie

3. 
   john7g | Oct 08, 2008 07:14pm | #4

   Get the technical data from the elevator companies.  Residential Elvator has been pretty quick to respond for me.  I've only done proposals for the framing aspect that the 2 clients balked at and stopped the process.  There's a little more to it than just making stacked closets but not much more. 

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   Jim_Allen | Oct 09, 2008 03:51am | #5

   John, you were the one that gave me that website weren't you?

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   john7g | Oct 09, 2008 04:49am | #8

   I think I did send you a link.  Did you ever contact them?

   It was an interesting feasability study but nothing ever developed.  They were both in a declining area and the desire to move was growing fast.

   There are a lot of easy to work details in the drawings they provide on their CD that's included with their brochure. Drawings are in .pdf and .dwg which I imported to CA and made into CAD blocks and added to the library for later use. 

   One detail that I think might not be discovered by a casual perusal is the 8" deep pit at the bottom of the shaft.  Easy to pour when new, not so easy later.  Raising the bottom of the door and building a ramp in retro installs might work (it was 1 of the options I was developing). Also since the shaft cuts floor joists 2  opposing walls become load bearing so another factor is added to the pit by requiring it to have a footing to bear the load.  There was a load requirement on the pit in the dwgs too.  Something like 8k lbs bearing but that seems wrong now that I write it.  220v, 110v, & phone line are easy to install. 

4. 
   fingers | Oct 09, 2008 03:55am | #6

   These folks have some interesting designs. http://www.tkaccess.com/ResidentialElevators/ELminivator.asp

5. 
   Piffin | Oct 09, 2008 04:18am | #7

   25K on the couple I have known of.

    

    

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6. 
   JeffBuck | Oct 09, 2008 05:29am | #9

   last one I was around was $20K ...

   so thinking $25K- $30K easy for your 2 to 3 story.

    

   I once hired on a commercial job as a trim carp and ended up climbing 10 stories of scaffold hanging the shaft liner. Think it was 12 ft long ... 16" wide ... about 2" thick green drywall. Stuff was way heavy ... fit into steel stud H track. Fun work hanging off the side of scaffold way up in a soon to be elevator shaft.

   Jeff

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