Dumbwaiter: what it is and for what use?

With the growing prosperity and improved living conditions of Russians. Increasingly, people prefer not to apartments in high-rise buildings, and cozy private houses or cottages. In the presence of the financial capacity of the building is constructed in two or even three stories, and eventually to the owners there is a problem: how to lift weights upstairs? If the whole family used to have breakfast in the dining room on the second floor, the hostess will have to climb the stairs with food trays, cutlery, pots. If there is no upstairs toilet, bring a bucket of water to wash the floor, too, will become a problem. A lift in the 2-3 floor heavy building materials? Drag down the washing vacuum cleaner? These and other problems with moving help solve dumbwaiter.

Main characteristics dumbwaiters

Dumbwaiter - a motorized lifting device, capable of moving loads in the vertical direction. In restaurants and hotels, it is used to move the dishes and food between the kitchen and the restaurant hall. The private cottages elevator can be installed in any convenient location of the owner and lift with the help of the necessary severity.

Capacity

It characterizes the maximum weight that can lift device. For private homes have enough carrying capacity of 10-15 kg, catering points it may exceed several kilograms.

dimensions

With them, you need to decide for another house design stage to foresee how much space will take the elevator, convenient to be suitable to it, where it will make intermediate stops in the living room, hallway or in another room.

Location doors

In some models, they are opened only on one side, while others - from two opposite, which gives much more freedom in the design of the room.

lifting height

Suffice insulting will first establish a three-storey elevator cabin and then only to find that he is able to lift loads only to the second floor. On the other hand, buy a model with a lifting height of 6 meters is simply impractical in a small house.

Therefore, before you choose elevator, you should assess to what height will need to lift things and how high it is able to deliver them. Do not confuse the lifting height (distance from the lower deck floor to the upper floor) with a total height of the mine.

Number of stops

It must match the number of floors at which the elevator will stop. If you think that the device will lift things from the ground floor through the first to the second, the number of stops should be equal to three.

Advantages and disadvantages of dumbwaiters

Advantages are as follows:

• the ability to use on different floors;
• variety of designs and colors, which will allow to successfully fit into any interior elevator;
• Low noise and low power consumption;
• convenience and ease of use;
• a variety of sizes.

The disadvantages dumbwaiters include their high cost, which, depending on the model, may exceed several tens of thousands of euros.

(35 estimates mean: 4,60 of 5)

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