New stairlift fitted

vwkamper

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

lexy.

mig

Great news,now no playing with it. Mig

stickywicket

Excellent news, Lexy, and thanks for sharing it.

Ignore mig - play with it as much as you like You can send little presents to each other if one of you stays at the top and the other at the bottom.

Folara

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

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

Love
Hileena

vwkamper

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

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

lexy

hileena111

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
Glad you are finding it useful
Love
Hileena

concernedrelative

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

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..

valval

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

arfaitis

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