Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation Great Shelford

The price depends on the type of lift, how many floors it serves and the layout of your particular home or premises. A through-floor lift in a period villa and a multi-floor commercial lift sit at different points on the scale. We provide a written quotation with no hidden extras, so contact us for an accurate figure for your Great Shelford property.

In most cases, no. A domestic platform lift is generally treated as permitted development and needs no planning application. If your home is a listed building near St Mary's church or lies within a conservation area, separate consent may apply. We check this during the survey and guide you through any approvals required well before installation work begins on site.

Most Great Shelford installations take three to five working days, including delivery, fitting, commissioning and the LOLER safety inspection. Because the OnLevel lift arrives factory-built and needs only a shallow 150mm pit, you avoid the weeks of structural building a conventional shafted lift would involve. We confirm the exact timeline in your written quotation before any work begins at the property.

Yes. The generous Edwardian and Victorian houses near the station are well suited to a lift. Our units need no deep pit, no separate machine room and no major structural alteration, so they sit comfortably within these larger period homes. We plan the route carefully to keep the proportions of each room intact and protect the character that makes the house attractive.

For most Great Shelford homes, yes. A platform lift carries you vertically between floors inside an enclosed car rather than seating you on a rail along the staircase. It takes a wheelchair, frame or scooter with you, gives a more dignified and independent experience, and adds value to a substantial property in a way that a stairlift simply cannot match.

Yes. Servicing is part of every OnLevel installation. Once your Great Shelford lift is running, our engineers return on a planned maintenance schedule to inspect, test and certify it, and respond quickly if a fault arises. Regular servicing keeps the lift safe, smooth and fully compliant across Great Shelford, Cambridge, Little Shelford, Stapleford and the wider South Cambridgeshire area.

Less than many owners expect. A through-floor lift occupies about the footprint of a large armchair and rises through a single neat ceiling opening, so even where you want to keep rooms untouched it fits discreetly. We measure at the survey and recommend the most compact option that still carries a wheelchair, so the lift complements the home rather than overwhelming it.

Yes. Our engineers hold SafeContractor accreditation under CN8516, so their health and safety practices have been independently vetted. Every Great Shelford lift is built to the EN 81-41 safety standard alongside Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2018, installed by our own trained teams rather than subcontractors, and fully tested, certified and signed off before handover.