Last week my parent and I went to a workshop about elderly care. My grandmother is ill, she has Parkinson or something like that. She isn’t capable of taking care of herself anymore so my dad brought her home to live with us.

In that workshop they mentioned lift off hinges. At first I didn’t know what they exactly meant. They talked about removing door with no problem. Later I went to do some research on internet and I found exactly what they meant. To be honest I would have never thought about Lift off hinges before, If it wasn’t because of my grandmother.

I know some people find it hard to believe how such a small invention can be so useful. Well in the workshop they talked about how some elderly die because they get locked in inside their rooms while having a heart attack or something worse.

My grandma is a human being and as such she deserves the right to have her own privacy. But at the same time she need to be under adult supervision almost 24 hours a day . I love my grandma and I don’t know what I will do the day that she is not longer with us.

When elderly have accidents like a stroke , time is critical. So the professionals recommended having this hinges in order to make the door easy to remove in case we needed so. They also mentioned several stories about how elderly where save because of the time factor. The case that caught all my attention was the one in England where a woman was trapped in a toilet for 14 days. she didn’t die but she was too close. They said that with a removable door the woman could have escaped easily and avoid the accident.

At the end we decided that nothing was enough to take care of grandma, so we followed every single piece of advice that they gave us in that workshop. We sleep quite well having the certainty that we have everything under control y something occurs.

As I always tell my friend, sometimes we have weird costumes. Sometimes we just like things in a particular way just because we like them, with no particular reason. Then if people like to have removable door, then why would that be silly? It is just a matter of particular taste. I have been reading avoid all the uses for this type of hinges and apparently there are not only safety reasons but very particular ones too. But that is going to be a reason to write another article about it. Now it is all about my grandma.

Our lives are full of unexpected events that we can’t obviously predict in advance exactly. However, there are several things we can do in order to avoid being encountered in such difficult situations! Perhaps there is not much we can do if we find ourselves in an emergency and we are in the streets, but it is always good to be prepared and have an idea of what we can do in certain situations! When we are at home, though, we always try to be as prepared as we can. We set things that will help us in an emergency in places that can be accessed easily; we have a first aid box at home containing all the things we could need if we suffer an injury or need to give a medicine or pill to a family member or guest. Nevertheless, sometimes we can find ourselves in situations way more complicated than treating a slight injury while cutting some potatoes! If you live by yourself or if you are often times home alone while everybody else is at school or work, you know you have to be ready to face any emergency! Did you know there have been many cases in which people get stuck in their bathrooms? It might sound a little bit funny but it is true! This is why they use lift off hinges for bathroom doors in many countries to avoid people getting stuck in their bathrooms for days!

Did you know in England a 55 year old man was trapped in his bathroom for four days before somebody could come and help him? He was obviously left there without any food so he had to drink tap water for those four days! He did not have any heat either! You are probably wondering how he get trapped in the bathroom if you can lock and unlock from inside the bathroom, but his door handle had broken so he had no way to get out! This whole situation would have been avoided if he had used lift off hinges for his door instead of the common hinges found in most houses.

As you can see, sometimes we can also find ourselves in such emergencies in our homes! If you want to avoid this rather dangerous situation you should start by changing the hinges of your doors. You can go to your nearest hardware store or order some lift off hinges 333online. Once you have the correct size of hinges it is time to also change your door because they must have a gap between the upper part of the door and the door frame so you can easily lift it off. This minimal change in your house can really save you some bad moments and even save your life! It is really amazing how such a small piece can give you so many benefits!

The other day I went to a home appliances show and saw a person buying this strange kind of hinges. On the line to the payment point I asked this person why they needed them for. First he told me that Lift Off Hinges come in handy when you need to remove the doors. I then asked Why would you need to remove the doors?

He said that he lives in a very humid area and that his doors paint where hard to maintain. His wife was very annoyed by this problem because she was a person that enjoyed having the house as neat as possible. From time to time he needed to remove the doors and take then to the garage to spray paint them. He said he did it for his wife and that she was happy to see how this problem was sold.

Then he shared with me two anecdotes. He mentioned his teenage son and how he is to punish him with no door in his room for a week whenever he did something wrong. Removing privacy from a teenager is a quite persuasive method to make them behave. I just laughed and told him that I was considering to do this with my kids when they got older.

Then he told me the idea came from his son itself when he made a party while they were out of the city but he didn’t want them to notice it. He removed the doors of the house to make it look bigger and to avoid his wild friend ruining the doors his mum loved so much. He didn’t count on people damaging the walls paint that he washed off after a party. The naughty son was discovered but the idea of removing doors for a party was kept in the family.

Finally I told him that he gave me a very good idea. I am the kind of person who likes renewing the house from time to time. It is fun to do that in order to fight stress and monotony. I change the ways are arrange but I don’t go as far as repainting the walls. It seems like hard work. But with this benefit that Lift Off Hinges bring, It seems easier than I thought. I liked very much the party idea too. I have done some research and contrary to my believe Lift Off Hinges can be as secure as a normal hinge and even more secure if you buy a high quality product. I guess it is a matter of taste and preference. DIY activities are fun to me. I know some other people don’t like it but I just discovered a very nice tip to put into practice.