I'd go with wheelchair lift.
I looked at a house years ago that had one in - it was still working and had a ruddy great hole in the bedroom floor/lounge ceiling.
The Villa card is probably worth more than the lift lol.
In your last picture, the upstairs floor in front of the lift is plywood not boards. It looks to be the size and shape for a wheelchair that was retrospectively boarded over.
I would go for a general purpose lift for moving stock when the building was a business premise. Seen several similar ones in various old buildings such as the old Prudential Insurance one in Reading. The size of the hole looks about right for a few boxes of documents or car parts.
Wheelchair less likely if the floors upstairs are multi-level. Plus the views on disabled back when it looks like that was fitted were somewhat different. Can't climb the stairs? Live downstairs then.
Plus the views on disabled back when it looks like that was fitted were somewhat different. Can't climb the stairs? Live downstairs then.
Although the current Government policy recommends living on the street / starving to death....
Idelly they would leave the country before starving to death - this would allow them to reduce the number of street cleaners required
anyway the exciting plan is to remove the lift build a laundry shoot from the dressing room to what will be the utility. this will also be my turbo area so possibly could put in some sort of.slide to make the trip down early doors quicker/more intresting
Sliding down a Firemans pole in the morning would be ace.
jobbie going from the annex toilet
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Is there a date on the motor plate?
Sliding down a Firemans pole in the morning would be ace.
I'm game for most things...heres my pole
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Whatever floats your boat...Sliding down a Firemans pole in the morning would be ace.
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He hasnt quite got the staring into the distance thing down has he? Otherwise not bad.
EDIT: He's more staring and sniffing, maybe he's sensing a fire?
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That is a Shatners basoon
Not to be used while under the influence of clarky cat (or triple sod).
Remember I read in the Daily Mail that Tony Blair's Labour Government were offering grants for these to people on the dole... it's to get your taxpayer funded crates of Special Brew upstairs to your bedroom without agitating the cans excessively.
Do you regret buying this house? I would never ever ever buy a house with woodchip wallpaper.
What would Thora Hird do
Is anyone humming the thunderbirds tune
reckon the boys would love a firemans pole.
I could rig up a set of bib shorts wallace like and slide down straight into them for the turbo session.
don't regret yet, I knew it was a project and will be awesome when finished. however everything is turning into a massive job which all seems dependent on some other massive job. probably easier to knock the whole thing down...
My fokes had one when they moved house. Wheelchair lift. Could not sell it. In the end they gave it away to someone from nw London to the new forest who came down over two or three weekends to remove it. They had a wheelchair bound child.
Serious answer.... I've not read the whole thread but I will second...
Wheelchair lift (or rather part of one).
The lift goes up through the first floor pushing a trap door open as it goes.
As it comes down the trapdoor closes behind.
The platform on which the person + wheelchair went up and down is possibly missing based on the picture at the bottom, although I've not looked at all the pictures as I should be getting ready for work.
Sliding down a Firemans pole in the morning would be ace.
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Did you buy the house at auction ,on a whim? After a liquid lunch?
Will you be on homes under the hammer? 😀
I'd be tempted to leave the filling and painting to after the rip out.
It’s a floor lift used for disabled people to allow them to stay in their home.
Its for a disabled cat to go out for a wee at night.
