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Dumbwaiter Installation

Peter Dolan, from the Atlas Elevator Company in Chicago and Chuck Bailey with the Virginia Elevator Company install the brand-new dumbwaiter.

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" All right Peter Dolan is here from the atlas elevator company of Chicago and above and check Bailey is with the Richmond dollar deficit over Kenya sorry about that. And you guys are the installers and this is. The brand new -- waited used to be a couple of them went right -- too small ones here for a now a dumbwaiter not a new invention you've been around for at least a century I know I remember pulling when out of a nineteenth century townhouse years ago. How -- I mean how often do you find them and in residential applications more or over the last couple years -- and what this of course is the governor's mansion and there's lots of state dinners that happened here. So it's a different kind of situation now what's the size of the actual. Carrier the box if you well. The box itself as you have a platform this three foot by pre -- actual -- when detector code that -- and arms were pretty. So and it opens all the way down to more level so the whole -- here's the use carts to -- role in and out was serving -- now. -- media is back but it. At the top as we were -- a minute ago is -- the motors located right that's where -- and and it runs equipment all of and what size -- Do you pass through or. To work -- and -- code required masonry enclosure like this all around the country for the country. They actually just require. And half -- Or what's applicable to colors. It is here essentially we've got like a chimney that you built. Correct and you want to make sure there should be kitchen part that the market travel -- that's correct that's -- these sorts Roth construction. You laboratories B label an hour and a half wiry little and I don't have where the first hour -- burned -- yet occupier. At chuck I know your company is installed dumb waiters and elevators right here in the capital right. Is there. Any criteria as to why it was located in this. Particular spot here at dimension -- part of what -- Virginia elevator we get the top jobs jobs that are and a little unique. And you can see we have an open -- there was going to be put back in here. -- Like the original there well right this is the original location for a staircase that leads from the kitchen up through the dining room. We have some space. Considerations. Scheduling considerations. We work though with the architect. Position where it is and what that was that is here OK and Peter what's the cost of this equipment and was just. Ordering it never mind the installation I asked him then okay itself this particular spot eleven or 12000 now for money. Okay and once you have to and thought how much -- yet to I would say about certainly felt Altman. I was close to point out thanks -- thank you thanks -- OK."

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