Wheel Chair Lifts and Platform Lifts easily zip you and your wheelchair from one level to the next!
- A Wheel Chair Lift is a safe, useful device used to lift you, in or out of your wheel chair, up and down to different levels inside or outside your home, school or office. There are different styles of wheel chair lifts, designed to suit different needs.
- A platform wheel chair lift features a small (approximately 3' x 4') platform that you can wheel your chair onto and then close safety gates around you to prevent falling once the platform is in motion. The platform then lifts or lowers your chair to a different level elevation. These platform lifts can be ordered in different sizes, customized for your needs.
- Some are designed to lift your wheel chair only a few feet off the ground (to reach the front porch of your house, for example). Others are designed to go up to 144" in the air (12 feet) and are suitable for use to reach gymnasium or theatre bleachers.
- Another style of wheel chair lift, is really a chair lift of its own. These lifts can be installed to run on rails alongside a typical staircase in your home. Often, they come with their own seat or platform that is connected to the rails.
- These incorporated seat chair lifts can be an affordable alternative to a platform wheel chair lift. A lift which incorporates it's own seat and runs along rails installed in a stair case costs around $2000-$3000, whereas a platform wheel chair lift can cost $3500 and up.
- The good news is that many charitable organizations offer rebates of up to $1000 to be applied toward the cost of installing a wheel chair lift or ramp.