Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation St Ives

A home platform lift in St Ives typically costs between roughly twelve and twenty-five thousand pounds, depending on the travel height, the number of floors and the finishes selected. Commercial passenger and wheelchair lifts range more broadly with capacity and door layout. As each harbourside cottage and terrace is unique, we give a fixed written quotation following a free survey rather than an off-the-shelf figure.

An internal home lift almost never needs planning permission, since it stays within your own walls, and through-floor lifts are generally treated as permitted internal alterations. Listed cottages or properties within the St Ives conservation area can require consent, and commercial work may engage building control. We assess the position for your specific home and manage any application that turns out to be needed.

Most home lifts in St Ives are fitted within three to five working days once delivered, while a simpler through-floor unit can often be installed in a single day. Commercial platform lifts take longer where building works are part of the job. After surveying, we give you a firm timetable so the installation can be planned around the busy seasonal calendar without disruption.

Yes. The narrow fishermen's cottages of Downalong have steep, twisting staircases that a platform lift handles cleanly. A through-floor model rises between storeys with no shaft, while a compact home lift fits into a tight ground-floor corner. We survey the granite walls and floor build-up first, then recommend the model that gives the simplest route upstairs in a small, vertical cottage.

It depends on the need. A stairlift takes a seated person up the existing flight and costs less, which fits many St Ives homes. A platform lift moves vertically and carries a wheelchair together with its user. Where the staircase has grown unsafe, or a wheelchair must reach an upper sea-view room, the platform lift becomes the stronger and more durable choice for the household.

Yes. We service and maintain every lift we install across St Ives and the surrounding area, including Carbis Bay, Lelant, Hayle, Penzance and Halsetown. Regular servicing keeps the lift safe, smooth and compliant, and our engineers carry common spares to resolve most issues on the first visit. A maintenance plan is arranged at handover, so cover is in place from day one.

Less than you might think. A home lift occupies about the footprint of a small armchair and sits on a shallow 150mm pit, avoiding deep excavation into a St Ives cottage's granite base. A through-floor lift needs only a modest aperture between two rooms. At the survey we measure the available space carefully and show exactly where the car and landing will sit.

Yes. We are SafeContractor accredited (CN8516) and install platform lifts to EN 81-41, with all work satisfying Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2018. Installations across St Ives are carried out by our own trained teams rather than subcontractors, and every lift is tested, certified and signed off before handover, so you receive a fully compliant, ready-to-use installation.