Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation St Ives

Each St Ives project is priced on its own rather than to a fixed rate. The travel height, the model you choose and the demands of a riverside cottage near Bridge Street or a larger family home in California all affect the figure, so a domestic through-floor lift usually costs less than a commercial scheme. We survey the property first and then provide a written, no-obligation quotation at no charge.

For most St Ives homes none is needed, because the lift sits entirely indoors as permitted development. The exceptions are the town-centre conservation area around the medieval bridge and the town's listed buildings, where external changes can require consent. We confirm where your property stands before any work begins and handle the conservation and building-regulations paperwork for you.

Three to five days is typical for a St Ives installation. Because the lift arrives factory-built and sits in a shallow 150mm pit, the home avoids the weeks of shaft and masonry work a conventional lift would involve. We agree the timetable with you in advance, so each stage is planned and the completion date is clear from the very start.

Yes. St Ives places the timber-framed shops and Georgian houses around Market Hill beside the Victorian terraces and the newer homes of California, and OnLevel lifts suit them all. A shallow pit, no machine room and a slim footprint let a lift stand beside the stairs with light work, whether the house is a period property or a recent build.

It varies from home to home. A stairlift suits a single straight flight and one seated user, whereas a platform lift links whole floors and takes a wheelchair, frame or scooter along. In a St Ives home where someone uses a wheelchair, or in a tall house overlooking The Waits, the lift is generally the more flexible answer and protects resale value better.

Yes. A maintenance plan comes with every lift we install. Once a lift is fitted in St Ives, we look after it from the town centre out to Hemingford Grey, Fenstanton and Somersham, returning for scheduled safety checks and ready to attend if a repair is needed. Regular servicing keeps the lift reliable and compliant with the relevant standards.

Very little. The OnLevel lift asks only for a shallow 150mm pit and houses no separate machinery, so a corner of a room or the space beside the staircase is usually enough. That is how it fits the riverside cottages and narrow town-centre plots of St Ives, where a traditional shafted lift simply could not be built.

Yes. Our engineers hold SafeContractor accreditation under CN8516, and every St Ives lift is built to the EN 81-41 safety standard alongside Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2018. The work is carried out by our own trained teams rather than subcontractors, and each lift is fully tested, certified and signed off before handover.