CoryB
Member
- Joined
- May 31, 2018
- Messages
- 34
- Location
- Central Virginia
- Tractor
- 2021 Deere 4044m, 1947 Farmall Cub
Look into an electric chair lift if it will fit on the staircase. We got one for my mother when she was about 80 and she used it in two different houses until she died. It gave her the ability to get to things in the basement that otherwise she couldn't access. It also saved my father from having to do the laundry.My mother is 85, walks with a cane, yet still insists on going down in the cellar regularly. My grandfather had the house built in 1927 and the stairs are narrow, steep with short treads. As you said she uses the railing but I still don't like it. After my father passed away in 2018 we (finally) convinced her to move the washing machine from the cellar to the first floor, but she still finds reasons to go up and down thosestairs.
