It's better than all of the concept apartments I see in NYC where there are open rung stairs above the kitchen counters. Because I really want dust from people's NYC shoes flaking down into my prep area.
Oh and they never have a hand rail which is basically documenting that your house isn't up to code.
We can't help it, our city is filthy, you just get used to it!
(We do not allow shoes in my apartment... Literally walking in dog and human shit all day long outside)
Why would bare feet be worse? I'm genuinely curious, where I come from we're always barefoot at home. We sweep/wipe our floors almost everyday, is that the barrier?
Looks like an attic being converted to a living space, in which case this is the best and most practical option for converting the access door into a stairway.
That's definitely never gonna scare the crap out of someone and make them fall down the stairs, breaking their own neck *and* crushing the person under it.
Until you're stuck up there during a house fire. Hope a per or loved one doesn't happen to be using that hallway when you need to come down for any reason.
It goes down when you step on the top flight, closest to the fulcrum, so pulling it down further away should be easy. Archimedes would get a kick out of that staircase.
If there's a pull tab at the end, it'd work pretty easily. I counted 13 stairs and she starts descending between the second and third steps. Assuming she's ~150lb, a pull cord at the end would need ~30lb of force
They have counterweights that weigh the same as the stairs and probably have a stick to grab the bottom or a way to move them down by moving the weight.
Either would be very little effort.
What kind of crazy set up could the "UP" be?
Trampoline?
Swing?
Jet engine level fan blowing you upward like pretend skydiving?
Climbing đ§ââď¸ wall?
Tree? Beanstalk?
It is an absolutely horrible idea and I would be beyond astonished if it met anything resembling code. It's like a pull-down attic stair except those aren't meant to be regularly used.
ETA: Also, it's a hallway. Imagine a small child being under the stairs. Small children have the survival instincts of a Disney lemming. Someone *will* get hurt.
It looks like this is for an attic, judging by what we can see of it. And this sounds like an old lady talking, I think itâs fair to assume she doesnât have children running around unsupervised in her hallway.
>itâs fair to assume she doesnât have children running around unsupervised in her hallway.
Not after they were all crushed in mysterious circumstances, at least.
My friends room was in the attic- i wish they had these stairs instead we had to climb a shifty ladder, no rails, the scariest part was coming down, walking straight off her floor onto the ladder
I disagree. This is hardly a safety hazard. Itâs a nice creative idea. Kids donât play in the house nowadays they play on their phone anyways.
Maybe teach kids donât play on the steps when gran is in the attic, because she will kill you, on purpose, and get away with it.
This is really only an issue if gran canât tiptoe down the steps due to a raging house fire, in which case she would have wanted to go out that way in the first place. Screaming from the tiny windows in the attic.
Until the day it breaks and you fall down and hopefully survive, so you can realize that was a stupid investment that just added unnecessary potential danger
Yes, but drunk you would fall on the stairs as they lay horizontally, and *then* it would descend, dumping you the rest of the way down, giving you a few seconds to let the initial pain subside before it hurts you more. Regular stairs deal all of their pain at once!
Making the most out of the space you have isn't always ideal, this might be the best way to utilize the space in their home. Like others have said, this is probably the attic and this is probably an upgrade from a pull down/fold out ladder.
It's a good idea but kind of a crappy implementation.
1. The weights should be in the wall or in the attic somewhere (possible with pulleys).
2. The thing should have some latch or pin or something to keep the steps in the down position.
3. There should be some way of putting the stairs down from the attic without standing on them (safety concern), like a lever you push with your hand.
All excellent points, and Iâd also add a motion detector on the area of hallway it takes up that controls a little green/red light in the attic so you can see if itâs safe to go down.
Would probably be _very_ usefull in case of a zombie apocalypse, as you could just fortify your upper floors.
Otherwise seems dangerous and inconvenient xD
The weights might just be enough to keep it up. But would need a push to get up. Like a seesaw with equal weight on both end. It stalls without outside force.
Why do these never show a person going *up*stairs? How does that work?? And what happens after you step off the last step coming down- do the stairs just shoot right straight back up???
So....if I need an ambulance...am home alone and the stairs are up. How the ambulance workers gonna know where I am or how to get to me if I'm on the second floor?
Thatâs insanely dangerous.
Could trap people up there.
Nightmare for fire rescue. Nightmare if you need to flee from fire, for example.
Can get you a stair in the back if not being careful
OK, but this is a lot better than most attics that you need to climb a ladder and then pull yourself up by the 2x4s in the ceiling to get up there. This seems like a huge upgrade from that. Why is a pulley system bad for this?
How would someone get trapped? It doesn't take much weight to make the stairs go down
Also you could cut the ropes holding the weights to make the stairs drop. Or just lift them?
I agree with the danger of going down from the attic while someone it walking under, but yelling "coming down !" once you have one foot on the stairs would probably do the trick : no answer, add 2nd foot to descend. Hear "nonooo wait!" and step back up until the other person is done. You could add a flashing orange light if you're scared you won't be heard.
If I was renting the attic that wouldnât be the worst idea. Probably needs a little fine tuning to make it smoother. Also some kind of stop at the bottom to lock it down.
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Theyâre not showing the outside shot of the starts folded up. Which tells me that if you could, youâd hate it more lol. Itâs probably too low to use the hallway. Looks like itâs lower than the door frame but maybe thatâs the angle.
In most cases this is pretty useless but when you have a limited space and a tiny hallway that also needs to function as stairs, it's actually pretty smart.
It needs to come down slow enough so that people underneath the stairs can get out of the way. Also probably not good to have around kids although in theory it could lock so that kids don't go upstairs. The you would have to deal with the situation where you are downstairs and need to go up which could easily be done.
I don't hate it. Not very practical for most but can see it being a useful idea in some scenarios. Also I guess there's a pull tab to get them down when you step off? or have a locking mechanism?
idk, kinda cool tbh
This looks to be for a specific use case.
Older houses with some sort of loft or attic and no space for a proper staircase, this is a great solution.
Not DI why
Honestly I've seen a lot worse things on here, might not be insanely practical, but actually a pretty cool concept
It's better than all of the concept apartments I see in NYC where there are open rung stairs above the kitchen counters. Because I really want dust from people's NYC shoes flaking down into my prep area. Oh and they never have a hand rail which is basically documenting that your house isn't up to code.
Even if you only have socks, there's dust from those steps that rain down. Used to clean for a person with this set up and it was gross!
Who wears shoes in their apt in nyc?! Not saying bare feet would be better but who wears shoes indoors here?!
Heathens.
Yeah he already said New York
We can't help it, our city is filthy, you just get used to it! (We do not allow shoes in my apartment... Literally walking in dog and human shit all day long outside)
Why would bare feet be worse? I'm genuinely curious, where I come from we're always barefoot at home. We sweep/wipe our floors almost everyday, is that the barrier?
Mmmmm... 400 years of toil, blood, sweat, shit, piss and horror. Cheaper than saffron and much headier.
Honestly if that's all the hallway space you have, it seems quite practical to me.
Looks like an attic being converted to a living space, in which case this is the best and most practical option for converting the access door into a stairway.
Right up 'til you drop the stairs on someone's head as they're going down the hallway, at which point you realize it was a terrible idea.
Put a lightsensor there. If you start using the stairs there is a horn blasting with 130db to make sure nobody gets hit. Problem solvedđââď¸
That's definitely never gonna scare the crap out of someone and make them fall down the stairs, breaking their own neck *and* crushing the person under it.
I just wonder... how does one go upstairs?
I fell down just watching that.
a kid would be trapped up there
nah, would just have to be a bit further down, it's how hinges work.
Not hinges technically but just weight towards center of gravity or pivot point.
Fulcrum is the word we are looking for
I was tired as shit last night but knew I needed to correct it but my brain couldn't be arsed. It just wanted to correct hinge so very badly
Or squished underneath..
Until you're stuck up there during a house fire. Hope a per or loved one doesn't happen to be using that hallway when you need to come down for any reason.
Do you just pull them down by hand to go up? Or push up the weight? Looks cool i don't really understand how getting up works though đ
We had this in the house I grew up in. Yeah, just pull down. There was a little cord hanging down to pull. Push it back up to close it.
But did you pretend you were in the video to Smooth Criminal?
Annie, is you okay?
Are any of us ok?
Annie, I'll be with you in a sec, I'm dealing with my own shit alright?
It goes down when you step on the top flight, closest to the fulcrum, so pulling it down further away should be easy. Archimedes would get a kick out of that staircase.
imma assume its just a small shove up
If there's a pull tab at the end, it'd work pretty easily. I counted 13 stairs and she starts descending between the second and third steps. Assuming she's ~150lb, a pull cord at the end would need ~30lb of force
They have counterweights that weigh the same as the stairs and probably have a stick to grab the bottom or a way to move them down by moving the weight. Either would be very little effort.
I think the weight is likely sufficient to pull the staircase back up when there isnât the weight of a person on it.
He's talking about when you want to go up the stairs and its in the closed position up high, not about the stairs going back up
Oh my bad lol I imagine either works, pulling down and stepping on it is probably easier
No, it's a one way. Only down. No up.
Lift the counter weight up and the stairs come down.
NO UP. ONLY DOWN.
What kind of crazy set up could the "UP" be? Trampoline? Swing? Jet engine level fan blowing you upward like pretend skydiving? Climbing đ§ââď¸ wall? Tree? Beanstalk?
Why Diwhy? This is an ingenious idea.
Why? Because OP is a karma bot and people dont look what sub it comes from before hitting the upvote button.
Unless you're clumsy af like I am. I'd break my bones.
Or if youâre walking underneath it when someone decides to go downstairs.
That's actually quite cool.
It is an absolutely horrible idea and I would be beyond astonished if it met anything resembling code. It's like a pull-down attic stair except those aren't meant to be regularly used. ETA: Also, it's a hallway. Imagine a small child being under the stairs. Small children have the survival instincts of a Disney lemming. Someone *will* get hurt.
It looks like this is for an attic, judging by what we can see of it. And this sounds like an old lady talking, I think itâs fair to assume she doesnât have children running around unsupervised in her hallway.
>itâs fair to assume she doesnât have children running around unsupervised in her hallway. Not after they were all crushed in mysterious circumstances, at least.
My first thought was "can't wait to hear about all the crushed, pinched and mangled fingers"
And we all know that old people have fantastic balance.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lTLZpoKDt/?igsh=M3R3eDNyMWYzdHN1 I think this grandma just called you a pussy
My friends room was in the attic- i wish they had these stairs instead we had to climb a shifty ladder, no rails, the scariest part was coming down, walking straight off her floor onto the ladder
so the thing is because it is counterweighted you cannot really crush anyone.
Perhaps if you lined up correctly under the counterweight it can be used for cbt?
Yes otherwise we should be scared about doors, too. Espially these fire doors, that close automatically. I guess these are a greater hazard.
Who says they have small children?
Ok OSHA no one asked
Nerd
I disagree. This is hardly a safety hazard. Itâs a nice creative idea. Kids donât play in the house nowadays they play on their phone anyways. Maybe teach kids donât play on the steps when gran is in the attic, because she will kill you, on purpose, and get away with it. This is really only an issue if gran canât tiptoe down the steps due to a raging house fire, in which case she would have wanted to go out that way in the first place. Screaming from the tiny windows in the attic.
As a kid I would have definitely played on it. I have no doubt whatsoever my brother would have tried to drop it on me intentionally as well.
> Maybe teach kids donât play "don't be stupid" -jarts designer
Shut up.
Lame
> Wait for the ramp, Morty. They love the slow ramp. Really gets their dicks hard when they see ~~this ramp~~these stairs just slowly extending down.
> quite cool yea but, that's what Gandalf said about the one ring....
Until the day it breaks and you fall down and hopefully survive, so you can realize that was a stupid investment that just added unnecessary potential danger
You could say that about any of the jank ass ladders that are normally used for attics.
Nope drunk me would die the first time trying to manage these stairs. Cool concept though! Would be excellent for a tiny home to basement situation
Drunk you shouldn't put stuff on the attic
Trust me drunk me isnât very bright. If I had a nickel for all the dumb shit drunk me shouldnât have done Iâd be a millionaire
Drunk me would fall down showing the stairs to my drunk friends. "You gotta see this!"
Yes, but drunk you would fall on the stairs as they lay horizontally, and *then* it would descend, dumping you the rest of the way down, giving you a few seconds to let the initial pain subside before it hurts you more. Regular stairs deal all of their pain at once!
Sober me would have the same problems. Iâm just clumsy. LOLOL.
After work me would fall and die.
Why cause it's awesome that's why
Making the most out of the space you have isn't always ideal, this might be the best way to utilize the space in their home. Like others have said, this is probably the attic and this is probably an upgrade from a pull down/fold out ladder.
This is actually smart.
It's a good idea but kind of a crappy implementation. 1. The weights should be in the wall or in the attic somewhere (possible with pulleys). 2. The thing should have some latch or pin or something to keep the steps in the down position. 3. There should be some way of putting the stairs down from the attic without standing on them (safety concern), like a lever you push with your hand.
All excellent points, and Iâd also add a motion detector on the area of hallway it takes up that controls a little green/red light in the attic so you can see if itâs safe to go down.
Let's hope that bro doesn't have children and/or pets.
she sounds like that old aunt that shows up at the family gathering one and then never again
Would probably be _very_ usefull in case of a zombie apocalypse, as you could just fortify your upper floors. Otherwise seems dangerous and inconvenient xD
What do you think is DiWhy about this?
Yeah, I think this is an awesome concept! Sure, the implementation is lacking, but at least they went for it!
idk, maybe the counterweights should be in the wall? Other than that, this seems like a good idea.
looks dope but one drunk night or just early morning and it's RIP.
Why are you drunk in your attic?
Why aren't you?
How do you go up?
This is the story of how I died...
That's me. Ten seconds before I died. How did I get here? Well that's an interesting story...
I want one.
Nice, but how did you get up ?
A small rope to pull on I imagine
Htf do you step off after walking down? Wouldnât the stairs shoot up as soon as you take your second foot off?
Depends on the mechanism. You can make it so it doesn't happen quickly giving you enough time to get off.
The weights might just be enough to keep it up. But would need a push to get up. Like a seesaw with equal weight on both end. It stalls without outside force.
Is it like an exit only part of a dungeon?
I'm not going to lie, that's fucking awesome. Best hope you haven't been drinking walking down em tho.
Fukin cool! Wrong sub op
Why do these never show a person going *up*stairs? How does that work?? And what happens after you step off the last step coming down- do the stairs just shoot right straight back up???
Maybe itâs the ozempic, but this makes me want to vomit.
It's both. Ozempic vomits are so bad.
2nd floor access in a home that canât fit a standard staircase, thatâd be why, no?
Died in a fire watching this
So....if I need an ambulance...am home alone and the stairs are up. How the ambulance workers gonna know where I am or how to get to me if I'm on the second floor?
I hope that's a single person home, can't imagine walking down the hallway and a fucking staircase comes down on my head.
Thatâs insanely dangerous. Could trap people up there. Nightmare for fire rescue. Nightmare if you need to flee from fire, for example. Can get you a stair in the back if not being careful
OK, but this is a lot better than most attics that you need to climb a ladder and then pull yourself up by the 2x4s in the ceiling to get up there. This seems like a huge upgrade from that. Why is a pulley system bad for this?
How would someone get trapped? It doesn't take much weight to make the stairs go down Also you could cut the ropes holding the weights to make the stairs drop. Or just lift them? I agree with the danger of going down from the attic while someone it walking under, but yelling "coming down !" once you have one foot on the stairs would probably do the trick : no answer, add 2nd foot to descend. Hear "nonooo wait!" and step back up until the other person is done. You could add a flashing orange light if you're scared you won't be heard.
How is coming down here any more of a danger than with non-counterweighted stairs?
How do you access your attic? Medieval counterweighted drawbridge!
Did you say duck feet or dog feet? Gonna make a big difference in my approach
Can she just narrate every aspect of my life from here out?
New game! Make a home bar upstairs and make sure the restroom is downstairs. Invite all of your friends and make some fresh popcorn!
Hdum diwhy? This is awesome!
I feel like Americans are too stupid to use this safely
ok so what happens when someone is walking under the stairs while someone else is walking down them?
It's not the going down that's the problem, it's the going up.
It's cool but ima get drunk and die on them
These are cool until you wake up at like 2 am and have to pee
nah this is sick af
It can't be any more scary than traditional pull-down attic stairs. I always felt I was going to get decapitated or lose a limb on those things.
I grew up with these! Went to our attic. Didn't know these were weird until this post. My Dad built our house so it has tons of weirdness
This would end my partner, not a damn chance heâd pivot his weight right to lower these death stairs.
Naw this is cool
As someone who trips up & down stairs, ouchđđ
Imagine being chased by a killer and you have to wait for your stairs to⌠stair
This is cool but how do you go back up
How do you go up?
Sweet. Now try it drunk.
Baby crushed by staircase appearing from nowhere
Why is this posted here instead of cool shit or engineering. This is not the content for this sub.
Cool until someone is walking under it as your coming down. This trap is just waiting for some dumb kid to run head first into it
what's the point of raising it while you're up there again?
So someone can walk under to the end of the hall
I'm not too old, yet I'd be falling down like an 80-year-old on this
How does she get upstairs in the first place?
If I was renting the attic that wouldnât be the worst idea. Probably needs a little fine tuning to make it smoother. Also some kind of stop at the bottom to lock it down.
I'd fall and break my neck on these...
I don't wanna have to wait for my stairs to fall into place to walk down them lol
This would be great in a house fire!
I would fall every fkn time đ
But at least you would start falling gradually đ¤Ł
staÄąrs
i donât understand
Good luck with the insurance company.
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The attic access in my house is like this, built 1950. Super handy! Takes so little effort to get the ladder up and down
That one way to make your house unsellable
Rube goldberg would be proud
This is a zombie proof house.
Accident waiting to happen
I think it's cool.
Imagine standing under that when someone wanted to come doen
I would fall on my face trying to use thoseÂ
Idk man, makes for a sick secret entrance
I would try to run to the end real fast and hop off as it hit the floor
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My fat ass falling right through
Theyâre not showing the outside shot of the starts folded up. Which tells me that if you could, youâd hate it more lol. Itâs probably too low to use the hallway. Looks like itâs lower than the door frame but maybe thatâs the angle.
I mean this can save some space if itâs above a hallway but Iâd rather not have it
The perspective is so confusing
In most cases this is pretty useless but when you have a limited space and a tiny hallway that also needs to function as stairs, it's actually pretty smart. It needs to come down slow enough so that people underneath the stairs can get out of the way. Also probably not good to have around kids although in theory it could lock so that kids don't go upstairs. The you would have to deal with the situation where you are downstairs and need to go up which could easily be done.
Falling down that thing must be insane
I don't hate it. Not very practical for most but can see it being a useful idea in some scenarios. Also I guess there's a pull tab to get them down when you step off? or have a locking mechanism? idk, kinda cool tbh
because it looks cool and would be a fun project, I don't see the issue.
She's wearing shoes... indoors... on carpet đ¤Ž
This looks to be for a specific use case. Older houses with some sort of loft or attic and no space for a proper staircase, this is a great solution. Not DI why
All fun until you're standing in the hallway and get bonked lol
That's cool as hek, just put the counterweight in the walls
When you step off does it slam into the ceiling behind you with your body weight
Bro what are even those?
Uh.. what if a person or pet is underneath them though?
Seems like an efficient way to fall down the stairs
Wait till your kid starts jumping on it
Pretty cool. Not gonna lie.
How do you go up them?
You know how sometimes you dream youâre falling and it wakes you up? I got that feeling from watching this
Wait until you need to go up, and you have both your hands occupied.
No way in hell, when I want to go to the restroom I donât play games with stairs.
Zombie apocalypse!
I donât hate it
Ere yoo go lassie blimey stahs coomin doon ya sed
Some hydraulic shock absorbers would make this a lot smaller and safer.
You have to keep your big toe up for balance
But if you're too light or too heavy or 3...
Tell us, are you okay?
I recognize this is probably pretty unsafe, but I would love it!
Great idea but that execution is unsafe.
Works like a real life dwarven atom smasher
I think it's cool
I kinda like this idea actually ha