I agree with Danny. If it isn't too steep, I use a sheet of thick plywood. I have even lowered my lift on the steps and bridged it with plywood. Are you sure you weigh that much? My chair weighs 150-200 lbs and I'm about 150. Good luck and be careful.
Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com > From: Danny Hearn <ddh...@sbcglobal.net> > Date: January 30, 2015 at 3:00:04 PM EST > To: Dave Krehbiel <davekrehb...@earthlink.net>, 'Quad-List' > <quad-list@eskimo.com> > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] getting into a non-accessible house. should I try a > manual wheelchair? > Reply-To: Danny Hearn <ddh...@sbcglobal.net> > > I have done both ways...In a manual chair it is easy for a person to get you > up or down stairs, they just have to tilt the chair back with the person in > it facing away from the steps and simply lift up or down one step at a > time--when they have you tilted back it is pretty easy just like moving a box > or something with a 2 wheeled dolly. My son in law made a ramp to fit my > power chair into his home, I believe he just used thick plywood about the > size of the door opening to get up the stairs then he moved it up to the door > for me to get in the one big step going into the house.Good Luck, Dan H. > > > On Friday, January 30, 2015 1:29 PM, Dave Krehbiel > <davekrehb...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > I have been invited to a family event, but the houses not wheelchair > accessible. The person hosting the party has offered to rent or build a ramp, > but I am wondering if it would be simpler and easier and safer to use a > standard nonpowered wheelchair. > > There are three or four concrete steps leading up to the front door. > > While I was in rehab, I watched them train individuals bring a person in a > wheelchair up a flight of steps by themselves. At this event, there will be > at least a half a dozen man who could lend a hand. > > Have you ever used a standard wheelchair to get into a non-accessible house? > My power wheelchair weighs about 600 pounds with me in it, and I just wonder > if it would be easier to simply let relatives push me around for the day. > > Thanks so much, > > Dave Krehbiel > >
