too cool alright...I'll bet that bugger costs more than the two cars in the video put together. What if there's a power failure? One car stuck 10' below ground level. Maybe there's a manual emergency crank?
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I have no idea how much they cost. Looks like they're sceeerd to give out a price... http://www.aclifts.com/parking/pss-7.asp But if you had the cash to buy two high end sports cars, I don't imagine you'd really care how much it cost.
However I'd guess around $10K.
And it looks like you're screwed if the power goes out, unless you have a generator.
Still a really cool deal.
Last edited by Pale Rider; 02-27-2008 at 02:18 PM.
I don't know if I'd go that high. You can get a regular parking lift for about $3K. So if that scissor lift was $5K, even $10, and maybe $5K to install, still, I'd say $15K on the high end.
The only way I can see someone needing it though is for people like the home in the video. They have no where to expand a garage to except down. They're kind of stuck with having to install something like that. Myself, I wouldn't live on less than a couple of acres of land, I'd never need it.
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You might be able to get the lift for 15K, but the excavation costs would be high, and you should figure about $100 per foot of basement wall. Add in electrical, plumbing (you'll need a sump pump) and you've got a huge chuck of change. If you want to retrofit an existing garage add 50% or so to the price.
Maybe I'll call them out of curiousity and see who's closer. But I'll tell ya what, if that thing costs more than $30K, I could build it myself for less than that. Shit, you can build a whole BIG garage, finish it off inside and out with full electrical, running water, sewer and heat for $30K. (Of course I'm estimating those numbers considering I'd do the construction, electrical, and heat myself. The only thing I'd subcontract out would be the water and sewer.)
This thing just may turn out to be one of those things that costs far more than it's worth.
Last edited by Pale Rider; 02-28-2008 at 03:23 AM.
And I just read an interesting article in this real estate module I have on my yahoo home page that said the trend seems to be that more and more people are leaving their suburban and country homes for a more urban one, creating an abundance of country setting homes. Seems people want to be closer to a store, gas station, post office, etc.. Good for me I guess, because the homes I've been looking at buying back in Wisconsin all have two or more acres of land. But I can see where these lift garages could catch on, judging by most homes here in Reno. They're built like eight feet apart. They have a tiny little front yard, if that's what you want to call it, and then a back yard hardly big enough to play Crockett in. I wouldn't own a home like that if was given to me. I'd sell it and move to somewhere where I had some elbow room.
Last edited by Pale Rider; 02-28-2008 at 11:08 AM.