Installing a Stair Lift

Answer 1

A stair lift can really be a life saver if you have trouble getting up and down the stairs lately. However, installation can be tricky. The very last thing you want to do is try and do it all by yourself. The good news is that, if you have a straight stair case, then bringing in a little help means that you should be able to install the lift very quickly. In fact, it really shouldn’t take any longer than a couple hours.

Now, on the other hand, if you have a spiral case or a curved staircase, then you’re probably going to want to look into how much it would cost to get a residential elevator installed, as it might actually wind up costing less. Where a straight lift can be installed in hours, a spiral or curved lift has to be custom built and can be extraordinarily expensive. In other words, just not worth it.

With a straight stair case, though, the instructions will be a major help in installation. The heavy lifting and such involved may make the process tricky to do solo, but with a friend or two, it’s simply a matter of attaching the railing to the stairs and car to the rail.

The lift will have everything that you need in order to get it set up barring, of course, the tools and so on. You won’t need to go shopping for two by fours or extra parts or anything. Everything needed to set the lift up, from the rails to the car to the attachment pieces will be included in the box. The only thing missing will be the chair itself.

This is because the manufacturers of these products typically want the buyer to be using their stair lift without being at all uncomfortable, which means that the user will provide the chair, be it a wheelchair that mounts on the cart or just a comfortable basic seat. In any event, once you mount a chair on the lift, you can consider the installation complete.