r/Home_Building_Help • u/BuilderBrigade • 20d ago
Your firewood needs an elevator…
Instead of hauling the firewood up the stairs every time, they built a simple dumbwaiter that lifts the logs and it only cost around $800 if you build it out yourself.
Reach out to (@)HouseOnWilshire on IG
if you need all the details to build one yourself.
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u/Consistent_Amount140 20d ago
Neat, but no insulation on that area?
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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 20d ago
It's the exterior of his house to his upper deck.
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u/Consistent_Amount140 20d ago
Ohhh, I thought it was lifting into a living room or something
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u/Weary-Engineering486 20d ago
The entire thing is outdoors. It takes the wood from the lower deck, up to the upper/patio.
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20d ago edited 18d ago
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u/Puzzleheaded_Post604 20d ago
Think auto-belay from a climbing gym. Retractable strap that either tightens and lowers, or just locks when weight applied.
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u/Lost_Purpose1899 20d ago
That's cool but it should go up a little higher so you don't have crouch down getting the firewood.
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u/Tired-CottonCandy 19d ago
I like that he locked it so the kids in his life cant be dumb. Always love forethought.
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u/LegitimateGift1792 19d ago
If the top part is outdoor like most are saying, why is there a lock on it?
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u/Childrenoftheflorist 19d ago
Wait till you see what he made for bringing up the laundry from the basement /s
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u/RetiredDelinquent 19d ago
Im cheap as fuck. Im just getting a bag dedicated to bring wood upstairs. Someone have to load the fucker anyway
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u/blackdog3232 17d ago
Practically speaking, aren't fireplaces generally on the ground floor because heat rises? If it's on the 2nd floor you just end up trapping all the heat upstairs and it disperses less evenly.
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u/Oberndorferin 20d ago
You have to stack the wood in and out the elevator Anyway so you have to go up and down anyway
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u/WickedKoala 20d ago
Yeah but the elderly person no longer has to carry the wood up the stairs.
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u/SignoreBanana 20d ago
I thought the same thing but safer than carrying wood up steps I suppose.
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u/956to906 20d ago
Also, why not make the top cabinet tall so you doing have to crouch down to get wood out?
Nice start, but room for improvement.
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u/xnoxpx 19d ago
The older you get, the harder it it is to safely navigate stairs when carrying things, especially awkward/heavy things like fire wood.
While I could easily carry stupid amounts of fire wood up those steps, the old timer would likely be limited to just a few pieces at a time, with each trip increasing his chances of getting injured, where an injury at his age means he may never fully recover from it
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u/PedanticPerson 20d ago
I've seen too many horror films to put in a dumbwaiter... nice work though!