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Selling a lift....?
peter_964rs
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So this is a bit left field I will admit, but is there a market for second hand lifts? I have just bought a house that used to be a nursing home a few years ago and consequently has a lift in the middle of it! It works off two phase power and just climbs a single floor, but seems in very good nick and just hasn't been turned on nor serviced for many years.
My wife phoned the number of the installed who umped and ached and said it would cost us to remove it, but we wonder if a lift doesn't have some secondhand value and we might find someone who will pay us to take it away? Grateful for any advice on where to look and whom to call.
My wife phoned the number of the installed who umped and ached and said it would cost us to remove it, but we wonder if a lift doesn't have some secondhand value and we might find someone who will pay us to take it away? Grateful for any advice on where to look and whom to call.
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It may well have a second hand value. But it would need to be removed and reassembled by experts as well as recertified. These costs may well exceed its residual value. Therefore the net gain to you is zero.
I'd be tempted to weigh it in for its scrap value.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0 -
Can you leave it there?
When your older you may actually find it useful
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Think you'll find its THREE phase powered !You may click thanks if you found my advice useful0
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I didn't catch it all but on Homes Under The Hammer today one of the properties had a lift that sounded like that. He mentioned about selling it when asked but said something along the lines of there being too many rules and regs. He scrapped it in the end. You may wish to watch it on iplayer.0
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Box it in for now, that way its not an eyesore.0
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I'd agree with above.
Just box it in with some plasterboard or whatever and then you can do whatever... unless you're desperate for the space?
Might make moving things upstairs easier, but then if it's just a one person lift, you could probably remove it by yourself.0 -
I think I'd be inclined to keep it and make it a feature, have the doors and interior painted to make it into a piece of art.Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear0
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I'd go further; take out the staircase and enlargen existing rooms with the mass of extra space gained on both floors !peachyprice wrote: »I think I'd be inclined to keep it and make it a feature, have the doors and interior painted to make it into a piece of art.0 -
I'd go further; take out the staircase and enlargen existing rooms with the mass of extra space gained on both floors !
And what about fire regs?"if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 20170
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