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installing a chair lift?

Posted by on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Leave a Comment

i live in an upstairs condo unit–moving is not an option–but at times i have trouble on the stairs.

if i can ever afford it–I would like to put in one of those chairs that glide up the stairs…

a friend told me the fire marshall would never allow it–because the stairwell isn’t wide enough–i would get the kind where the chair folds up…the stairwell is 3 ft wide–it is my private stairwell–not a common area…

would i be prohibited from installing it?
it can be stored on the landing..many of the pics I’ve seen online show a stair well no wider than 3 foot
I don’t have a landlord=its a condo

and teh ADA is crap–the govt refuses to enforce it–and i can’t afford a lawyer
even if i did have a landlord–it would not be a reasonable accommodation to have him make modification to teh stairs–at most it would require him to give me preference to a 1st floor unit–and it would be FHA–not ADA–ADA doesn’t apply to housing
ITS A CONDO–not an APARTMENT–i would not need to remove it unless it was a condition of the sale between me and the buyer……

and the question is about the size of the stairs-being allowed by the FD and PD–not by accessibility/non discrimination laws

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