New stairlift fitted

vwkamper
vwkamper Member Posts: 132
edited 14. Oct 2012, 10:43 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi everyone,

Well my hubby has o/a in the knees,
mine is my whole spine, so we got onto the occupational therapist who came to see us both and she got onto the council. ( i live in a council house )
Anyway we got the stairlift fitted and boy what a difference that has made to our lives no more struggling with the stairs fantastic.

just thought i'd give some good news for a change :D

lexy.
P.M.A Positive Mental Attitude.

Comments

  • mig
    mig Member Posts: 7,154
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Great news,now no playing with it. :lol: Mig
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Excellent news, Lexy, and thanks for sharing it.

    Ignore mig - play with it as much as you like :lol: You can send little presents to each other if one of you stays at the top and the other at the bottom.
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • Folara
    Folara Member Posts: 568
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Good news Lexy. The dreaded stairs are the worst aren't they. Thank god my loo is downstairs.

    You could 'pimp' it up a bit and give it go faster stripes lol

    Fols x
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thats great news Lexy.
    Dont forget if one of you is upstairs and the other downstairs you can send things upstairs that in theory live there :lol:

    Love
    Hileena
  • vwkamper
    vwkamper Member Posts: 132
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi everyone,

    Well i must admit to having a play the first thing we sent up and down was my yorkie Ruby and she loves it :lol:

    Now when it beeps she comes for a lift too!!

    lexy
    P.M.A Positive Mental Attitude.
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    I can just see your yorkie sitting on it when no one is about and waiting for someone to come and "give her a ride"
    You've started a habit there :lol:
    Glad you are finding it useful
    Love
    Hileena
  • concernedrelative
    concernedrelative Member Posts: 3
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My mum had a fall recently, and after returning home from hospital the OT and myself realised my mum needed a stairlift. I decided to do some research and found there seamed to be 3 main companies, Stannah,Acorn and Age uk stairlifts, we decided to have Age uk as we liked the thought of dealing with a charity rather than a large business, and we had heard stories of pressure sales from the other companies.
    We made an appointment, thier surveyor came round, who did not pressure us and informed us that the lift would be a straight stairlift called a minivator 950. This would cost £1900 and he told us this was the same price to any Age uk customer, which we liked so we purchased. The lift was fit a week later and everything was fine.
    Some weeks later a neighbour of ours had a stairlift installed, I called in to have a look and found it to be the same stairlift as ours. She had purchased it from a company called Companion for £1400 brand new.
    I decided to research this company and found that Companion and Age uk are run from the same building in Leeds, they are owned by a larger company called Handicare who supply them with minivator stairlifts.
    So if we had called Companion we could have had the same stairlift with the same warranty fit by the same engineers for £500 less, what a con, Age uk are supposed to be helping the elderly! how does this help my mum by taking £500 more for the same product, totally disgusting, wish I had gone to Stannah.
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh Lexy
    That is brilliant..what a difference it must make...I am really struggling at the min with the stairs....my auntie used to have one..and my sons...used to love going just to play on it.. :lol:
    Love
    Barbara
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    my uncle used to use theres to take the breakfast tray up stairs with tea and toast saved him having to struggle up the stairs with it val
    val
  • arfaitis
    arfaitis Member Posts: 155
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I bought one back in 2000, and I never looked back.
    As someone has said it is great for taking heavy stuff up stairs, we use ours like a dumb waiter too.

    Arfa