28-06-2016, 01:58 PM
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Re: Fed up with being ripped off for 'disabled' devices.
Originally Posted by Tpin
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Maybe if you looked at things a little more logically then I'd probably agree with you more.As far as 'I only have myself to blame'....wrong.
I didn't have an option.
Apart from the fact my mum would remove my balls for even suggesting she use an engine hoist there's H&S to contend with.
The care company cannot allow there employee's to use anything other than apparatus fit for purpose nor anything 'used' unless accompanied by an 'apparatus checked and passed' certificate.
Sometimes your need to find fault distorts rational thinking.
Very good post Tpin, and I agree with you.
Unfortunately some things are out of our hands.
You are right about care companies too. They will not risk their staff being injured or their clients suffering injury through having to use someone's attempt at home-made equipment.
If you were looking after your family with it yourself, with no outside care, it might be ok, but once you involve professional care companies, they would expect proper recognised equipment.
28-06-2016, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Tpin
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Is it new?I'm probably a bit too wary when it comes to eBay.
When parting with money for something like this, tools, ladders. Scaffold etc I need to see them, in the flesh, so to speak.
My own fault, I suppose.
I will have a look in future, thanks.
28-06-2016, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Very good post Tpin, and I agree with you.Unfortunately some things are out of our hands.
You are right about care companies too. They will not risk their staff being injured or their clients suffering injury through having to use someone's attempt at home-made equipment.
If you were looking after your family with it yourself, with no outside care, it might be ok, but once you involve professional care companies, they would expect proper recognised equipment.
There is always a plus....I could rent it by the day as an engine hoist
28-06-2016, 02:03 PM
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Re: Fed up with being ripped off for 'disabled' devices.
Originally Posted by Tpin
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Is it new?I'm probably a bit too wary when it comes to eBay.
When parting with money for something like this, tools, ladders. Scaffold etc I need to see them, in the flesh, so to speak.
My own fault, I suppose.
I will have a look in future, thanks.
28-06-2016, 02:44 PM
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H and S, yea right. When my wife started to have falls, she could not get up on her own and without help from other people I could not do so.At home when she had a fall, I made an aid. Now don't laugh. I had a block and tackle (for engine removals) and a step ladder. The B&T was attached to the top of the ladder. I made a 'bosom chair' out of thick ply. She would wiggle her bum onto the 'chair' and hey ho up she would go, until she could stand.
Later I found a Mangar airflow on eBay. This is what the ambulance carry for lifting people.
It has been used a few times, and worth the few quid that I paid for it.
28-06-2016, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Tpin
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On a mission, BC.I'm avin a moan week.
Wasn't there a grumpy git moaning section on here?
Anyway I have a right to moan.
The difference in price is about 200 pints of beer.
28-06-2016, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Indigo
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Have you seen the price of stairlifts? They always underquote, the fact is, they virtually never come under 10k, and quite often nearer 20k. I don't really understand why, when you look at what is in them - a chair and a bit of rail.
28-06-2016, 07:33 PM
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Terrible. I was going to buy a recliner chair ,but the cost was over £1,000, which I just cant afford.Couldnt your Mum get help from Social Services ? Although saying that our S.S are not good. I had someone come to see me recently, they offered me a commode & a bed rail to help get in/out of bed , niether which I need, but a stairlift, no way[ we like people to manage as long as they can !!] A 3 wheeled walker ? Dont do those , you can have a walking frame to help aroud the house|
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