Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation Sawston

The cost depends on the type of lift, the number of floors it serves and the layout of your particular property. A through-floor lift in a village terrace and a multi-floor commercial lift at the technology park sit at different price points. We provide a written quotation with no hidden extras, so contact us for an accurate figure for your Sawston home or business.

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

Most Sawston 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 mill-workers' terraces and older cottages around the village take a lift comfortably. Our units need no deep pit, no separate machine room and no major structural alteration, which suits Sawston's compact period housing. A through-floor model fits these tighter homes especially well, rising through one small ceiling opening rather than calling for a dedicated lift shaft.

For most Sawston households, 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 the property in a way that a stairlift fixed to the stairs does not.

Yes. Servicing is built into every OnLevel installation. Once your Sawston 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 Sawston, Cambridge, Great Shelford, Stapleford and the wider South Cambridgeshire area.

Usually less than expected. A through-floor lift needs about the footprint of a large armchair and rises through one neat ceiling opening, which suits the smaller terraces and cottages around Sawston. We measure carefully at the survey and recommend the most compact option that still carries a wheelchair, so the lift works around your rooms rather than dominating them.

Yes. Our engineers hold SafeContractor accreditation under CN8516, so their health and safety practices have been independently vetted. Every Sawston 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.