Electric hoists. Can anybody give advice?

[Electric_Andy]

^^ I would echo this. Rather than a single mounting point for the which, I would try and pass the scaffolding pole through as many of the joists as possible. If you have a person to help, you could even ask them to give it a lift from below, that would take 30-50kg off the load depending on how strong they are. I would also worry about the state of the loft flooring. If it's been boarded out then it should be ok, the boards tend to spread the weight over several underneath joists, but if you are storing it across 2 joists then I'd not want to live underneath it.

 

[MikeG]

Bury it. Trying to hide a body in your loft is only going to go wrong for you. The patio is the traditional spot, but if you have access to some remote farmland, so much the better.

 

[pplpilot]

With all the crap Mrs pplpilot stuffs up there I was considering -

 

[Tim Hall]

I feel this project requires a skylight and a well aimed trebuchet.

 

[dan_bo]

Try a tool hire place.

 

[slowmotion]

Thank you for your replies. The new floor can take an additional UDL of 1.8kN per square metre.....a typical domestic floor loading. I've done the calculations. One end of the scaffold tube for the hoist will be resin anchored (with a Kee fitting) into the brick party wall. The other end will be supported on an A frame of two scaffold tubes. The legs of the A frame sit on top of a doubled-up new floor joist. I'm not placing any additional loads on the rafters of the roof or the existing ceiling.

The distance from the new loft floor to the scaffold pole is approximately 1.6 metres vertically and the total lift required is about 4 metres. There's electricity up there.

 

[Milkfloat]

In which case - I would still go for the simple and cheap method - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1Ton-Chai...524353?hash=item25d3a3e841:g:Jw4AAOSwnF9Y6EwH

 

[MacB]

what is it you're lifting?

 

[slowmotion]

what is it you're lifting?

Mainly boxes of tools and fixings. I've got twelve five-drawer kitchen base units stuffed full of "stuff" to stash away up there. Each base unit can weigh up to 100kg when full. I thought that a hoist rated at 125kg might be struggling, hence the 250kg figure.

 

[MacB]

Mainly boxes of tools and fixings. I've got twelve five-drawer kitchen base units stuffed full of "stuff" to stash away up there. Each base unit can weigh up to 100kg when full. I thought that a hoist rated at 125kg might be struggling, hence the 250kg figure.

So you can just make lots of small trips? unless the loft is hard/awkward to access, in which case are you just moving stuff to the loft as a step in its long journey to recycling?

 

[slowmotion]

So you can just make lots of small trips? unless the loft is hard/awkward to access, in which case are you just moving stuff to the loft as a step in its long journey to recycling?

The loft is easy to access by ladder, but not when carrying a drawer weighing 20 kg.

 

[MacB]

The loft is easy to access by ladder, but not when carrying a drawer weighing 20 kg.

So why is the stuff going in the loft?

 

[slowmotion]

So why is the stuff going in the loft?

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition....

 

[classic33]

So why is the stuff going in the loft?

"World Domination Centre" under construction.

It's a secret!

 

[classic33]

Slowmotion the sort you pictured in the first post, is £138 from Machine Mart, with very few less than that, for the same load.

Whilst it gives a weight of 250kg, they're not willing to say it will lift that weight. That is the a horizontal weight, with the breaking strain of the wire and motor capacity to take into account.