spin off of elevator thread - do you regularly go up stairs?

[mamamary]

My house is 4 levels so yes I do stairs often (although they are at least not long flights of stairs).

 

[neverlandsky]

Live on a 3rd floor apartment rental. There’s no elevator and all stairs. So it’s multiple trips up and down daily. At the mall I will go out of my way to avoid the escalators because it makes me have a vertigo attack. Going down isn’t as bad as going up. I avoid the elevators at the mall because I don’t like to be scrunched in with crowds. So again all stairs there too.

 

[TippyThomas]

I avoid stairs due to a disability.

 

[DisneyHardin]

We have a 2-story house with a basement, so I go up and down stairs every day.

 

[mjkacmom]

We have a 3 story house with the washer/dryer and treadmill in the basement, there are 8 steps from our porch to our walkway, 5 steps from the walkway to the sidewalk, 8 steps from the back porch to the yard.

 

[kdonnel]

I try to but many buildings do not make it possible.

I have tried using the stairs in several Las Vegas hotels only to find that going down does not exit into the building but dumps you outside, nowhere near where you wanted to be. And there is no way to enter the stairs if wanting to walk up.

The same thing happened at the two office buildings in which I worked. The stairs were emergency exit stairs only. Down only, to the outside, no way to enter to go up.

It also happened at a Marriott hotel once. We came out the stairs once again dumped outside and behind the hotel. An employee was outside smoking and told us we picked the wrong stairs. The stairs on one side of the hotel were emergency only while the other side could be used to go up and down as they emptied out in the back of the lobby immediately adjacent to an exit to the outside so they could double as emergency stairs.

At home I have three flights of stairs. It is not often I go from the basement to the third floor directly but I do often go from the 1st to the 3rd floor having to do two flights. Basement to 1st and 1st to 2nd is 16 steps each while 2nd to 3rd is only 15.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Every day. My house is two stories and a basement. My bedroom is one of the ones upstairs, and I use the basement stairs regularly because our pantry is down there. I have arthritis in both knees so it's a bit painful, but needs must.

 

[BrianL]

I don't encounter stairs all that oftne. At the office, there are some, but it's only a two-story building. I never use the elevator, but I also rarely have need to go to the second floor. I will tend to take the stairs if it's just a few flights.

 

[tvguy]

I try to but many buildings do not make it possible.

I have tried using the stairs in several Las Vegas hotels only to find that going down does not exit into the building but dumps you outside, nowhere near where you wanted to be. And there is no way to enter the stairs if wanting to walk up.

The same thing happened at the two office buildings in which I worked. The stairs were emergency exit stairs only. Down only, to the outside, no way to enter to go up.

It also happened at a Marriott hotel once. We came out the stairs once again dumped outside and behind the hotel. An employee was outside smoking and told us we picked the wrong stairs. The stairs on one side of the hotel were emergency only while the other side could be used to go up and down as they emptied out in the back of the lobby immediately adjacent to an exit to the outside so they could double as emergency stairs.

At home I have three flights of stairs. It is not often I go from the basement to the third floor directly but I do often go from the 1st to the 3rd floor having to do two flights. Basement to 1st and 1st to 2nd is 16 steps each while 2nd to 3rd is only 15.

Yes, I have run into this also. You find yourself locked in the stairwell until you get to the bottom, unless you get lucky and someone on a floor you are passing opens the door from inside the building. Oddest one is my Dermatologist's office. His building is attached to another building, but the floors don't match up. His building has two additional floors, and those two buildings are built around a 5 story parking garage whose floors don't line up with either of those two buildings. So there are three different elevators and sets of stairs.

 

[soccerdad72]

We have a colonial house, so obviously daily we're doing steps. In general, though, if there's a choice between steps or elevator, I try to do the steps.

 

[Kimkimba]

I do the stairs at home constantly. My family dislikes elevators, so unless it’s 30 flights we take the stairs.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I am physically able to go up stairs and I hate elevators; so yes, I prefer the stairs.

 

[Meriweather]

2 story house.....go up and down all day
Cruising, I always use the stairs. I usually need a break, DH can't do the up part anymore.
Depends on where we are for other places. Sometimes the stairs and just creepy, so use elevator

 

[BrianL]

I often refer to the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse at Magic Kingdom as "Stairs: The Ride."

 

[lovesmurfs]

2-story house with basement. Knee problems have made it so that DH does laundry (basement) and get stuff from the freezer. Bedroom is on 2nd floor - I only go up/down once per day, if I can help it.

Knee replacement last month -- I'm nearly pain free in one of my knees now. It's so glorious. Next one in February or March, if I can swing it.

 

[GreatLakes]

Our home is 4 levels total so I do stairs all the time. Unless I have a lot of stuff with me, or a stroller, I try to always use the stairs.

 

[maxiesmom]

Yes, at work. We are a 2 story building, but I avoid the elevator at all costs. It was a repurposed elevator, and breaks down fairly often. If I have to move something large, I shove it on, race up or down the stairs, and go pull the item off.