First, we had to choose an elevator company. After interviewing several companies, we chose Residential Elevators out of Florida. We considered Ashley Elevators because they had a clear elevator without a hoistway but it made me too nervous.
Next, we picked our general contractor. We got a recommendation from Residential and went with Hofmeister Services, who ended up subbing the work to Caputo Construction. Bob Caputo and Mike from Caputo did the bulk of the work, which involved:
- Reinforcing the foundation
- Ripping the carpet off the stairs
- Cutting into the stairwell to make more room for the hoistway
- Removing part of the floor on the 4th floor because there was an overhang in the stairwell that would have prevented a straight hoistway
- Framing out the hoistway
- Closing the hoistway with drywall
- Painting the hoistway
- Creating the custom trim in the baseboards and crown molding
- Repositioning the powder room
- Building out the machine room
Building the hoistway took months, literally and it was dirty, dusty work. We started the work as soon as we were able after closing on the house. The work was delayed by confusion over permitting because we needed to move a sprinkler on the 4th floor so it's now the end of July and the hoistway is finally done.
Here is a view of the hoistway from the 1st floor. Note the doors in the hoistway.
Elevator door in the guest room on the 4th floor.
The elevator will open directly into the guest room.
View of the elevator door in the guest room.
View of the elevator door from the 3rd floor bedroom level.
View of the elevator door in the dining room on the 2nd floor living level.
You can see how the hoistway closed up the stairwell.
View of the hoistway from the 4th floor.
That's Bob at the bottom of the hoistway.
Note the 3 doors in the hoistway.
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