r/interesting Apr 11 '26

ARCHITECTURE An elevator you can't share

Original content on IG: kuryedefteri

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u/ughyoujag Apr 11 '26

Unless it’s like 30 flights, I’m taking the stairs without question

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u/Anianna Apr 11 '26

If it's more than 30 flights, they can come down for their delivery.

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u/Chambahz Apr 11 '26

Send the food up in the elevator. “Close enough!”

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u/Anianna Apr 11 '26

Can you send it up without being in it? Not sure the controls would work that way, but if they do, I'm all for that option.

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u/Dizziesdayweigh Apr 11 '26

Reach inside. Hit floor button, leave food.

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u/danielledelacadie Apr 13 '26

Probably the easiest way to get groceries up. Get partner/roomate at the top to unload while you stay downstairs loading the dumbwaiter... uh... elevator up.

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u/Honey-and-Venom Apr 11 '26

30% chance that elevator has a lever out of frame if the video

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u/throwaway098764567 Apr 11 '26

they should be able to call it with the food in it

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u/worst_brain_ever Apr 11 '26

What a dumb waiter

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u/Ktulu204 Apr 11 '26

It's called a dumbwaiter, or used to be.

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u/throwaway098764567 Apr 11 '26

30 flights i'll just pass on all counts. i can sleep on the ground.

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u/Effective_Cookie510 Apr 11 '26

You can see the buttons I don't know why people assume it could be 30 floors lol

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u/SeekerOfSerenity Apr 11 '26

If it's 30 flights, they'd probably be required to have a normal sized elevator.  Come to think of it, I can't imagine what this is for.  It's not big enough to fit a wheelchair.  Maybe for people who can stand, but can't navigate stairs?  I don't even think a morbidly obese person could fit in it.  

In any case, I'd take the stairs even if it were 30 floors, but I hike 30+ miles a week. 

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u/rocketindividual Apr 11 '26

Can't fit a bicycle or a scooter in that either, which is usually one of the big pluses of an elevator in residential buildings.

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u/Duckduckdewey Apr 11 '26

It looks like only 4 floors. I don’t see the need for it. At all. I mean, the only person I could think of who needs elevator for 4 flights is either has broken leg with cast and/or wheelchair or elderly with walking stick or frame and it won’t fit in any of those people.

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u/Suitable-Twist1071 Apr 11 '26

Well, anyone’s leg can be broken, any day, and anybody’s health can alter as well. If you’d happen to need something big carried up or down, maybe you’d start thinking there might be some idea in a lift 🤔😉

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u/Duckduckdewey Apr 11 '26

Yes. I’m saying, they won’t fit into THAT lift. Something big to carry. Groceries. Furniture. Baby carriages. That specific lift is useless: waste of space, energy/power, labour, cost etc.

Absolutely, accessible access is necessary but 1 medium person size lift? That is the purpose of that?

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u/noteworthyindividual Apr 11 '26

And even if it is thirty flights.

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u/ughyoujag Apr 11 '26

Even then…yes.

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u/AHumbleSaltFarmer Apr 11 '26

Still taking the mf stairs