If you were me, what would you do?

bouicca21

Friends where one partner has limited mobility did an extension and installed a lift as part of it.

GaleSF63

If you became unable to get upstairs to the bathroom wouldn't that also cut off your access to the bedrooms?

A stairlift rather than downstairs bath/shower room has the advantage of giving access to the whole of the upstairs.

I've also seen adverts for lifts that go in the corner of a room - rather more expensive - a great deal more, but not as much as an extension.

Ptolemyspuzzle

The "Iron nun" would like a word. 82 years old and still competing in Ironman competitions (thats a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112 mile bike ride, followed by a 26.2 mile run with no break). She only started running at the age of 48. No 50 yr old should be planning for stair lifts for goodness sake. Plan for health, get out, keep yourself fit, utilise those hills that you love to look at.

So there you go, get yourself a new plan, one that doesn't involve chair lifts.

Davesnave

Or the OP could simply accept that at some points in life one has to endure a certain amount of discomfort in order to gain an advantage.

An extension beyond the existing building could mostly be constructed without disturbances inside, if properly planned and professionally built.

Davesnave

Ptolemyspuzzle wrote: »

No 50 yr old should be planning for stair lifts for goodness sake. Plan for health, get out, keep yourself fit, utilise those hills that you love to look at.

So there you go, get yourself a new plan, one that doesn't involve chair lifts.

You know the OP personally?

Of course, in an ideal world people should plan to stay active and implement those plans as fully as possble, but by 50, some people will have a realistic idea of what the future holds for them, and seriously decreasing mobility will be predictable, for some.

missbiggles1

Ptolemyspuzzle wrote: »

The "Iron nun" would like a word. 82 years old and still competing in Ironman competitions (thats a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112 mile bike ride, followed by a 26.2 mile run with no break). She only started running at the age of 48. No 50 yr old should be planning for stair lifts for goodness sake. Plan for health, get out, keep yourself fit, utilise those hills that you love to look at.

So there you go, get yourself a new plan, one that doesn't involve chair lifts.

And the reason she's newsworthy is because she's exceptional.

Everybody in their late 50s should be considering their future living arrangements and making plans for the normal progress of life, not assuming they will be immune.

SingleSue

Ptolemyspuzzle wrote: »

The "Iron nun" would like a word. 82 years old and still competing in Ironman competitions (thats a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112 mile bike ride, followed by a 26.2 mile run with no break). She only started running at the age of 48. No 50 yr old should be planning for stair lifts for goodness sake. Plan for health, get out, keep yourself fit, utilise those hills that you love to look at.

So there you go, get yourself a new plan, one that doesn't involve chair lifts.

This 46 year old already is.....unfortunately a connective tissue disorder plus other injuries have robbed me of most of my mobility. No amount of trying to get out and get fit will work.

Callie22

It's worth doing a bit of research about stairlifts as your stairs need to be a certain width in order for the lift to be fitted, and there has to be a certain amount of space at the top and bottom so that you can get on and off them safely. We have an elderly family member who is in this position at the moment and we're having to look at other alternatives (possibly a lift, possibly fitting a bathroom downstairs) as the stairs in her terraced house aren't wide enough to fit a stairlift.

moneyistooshorttomention

Argghhh wrote: »

if you wanted to put a sunroom and wetroom on back of your house - you could book a holiday whilst the worst of it is taking place and come back to it all done?
happy days then

Followed by needing another holiday possibly after having sorted out how the workman had bodged things here/done them differently to what OP wanted there etc possibly....:cool:

Personally, I like to make sure I'm on site when work is being done - because bodging and different decisions to my own are so commonplace by workmen. I've even found that on a recent paint job there is a fair bit of paint splodging at the site of the one bit of the job that I went out during:cool: - but he's pretty much avoided splodging at the bits he did whilst I was in...

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Personally, I like to make sure I'm on site when work is being done - because bodging and different decisions to my own are so commonplace by workmen.....

Those dashed workmen, eh?

While I agree that no one needs to be so precious that they take a holiday during a build, the possibility of a tradesperson bodging is very much down to who they are. Some take a pride in both the work and the tidiness of the site, and others don't.

It's unfair to lump them all in together, and unwise to employ any without prior knowlege of their level of skill and committment.