Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation Dartmouth

A Dartmouth lift is priced to the property, never from a fixed scale. The travel height, the model you choose and the demands of a steep harbourside terrace or a hillside villa all shape the figure, so a domestic through-floor lift usually costs less than a commercial installation. We survey the property first, then provide a written, no-obligation quotation at no charge.

For most Dartmouth homes none is needed, because the lift sits entirely indoors as permitted development. The town conservation area and the listed merchant houses near Bayards Cove and the Butterwalk are the exception, where internal changes to a listed home can also require consent. We confirm where your property stands before any work begins and handle the conservation and listed-building paperwork for you.

Three to five days is typical for a Dartmouth 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, certainly. A terraced house climbing the hill above the harbour, narrow and reached by long flights of steep stairs, will still take a lift that is fitted with care and finished to suit the room. The shallow pit and compact footprint reach the floor above with light disruption, so the harbourside home keeps its character and stays comfortable for the household.

It turns on whether a wheelchair must travel. A stairlift carries a seated rider and leaves the wheelchair below on the lower floor. A platform lift carries the wheelchair or scooter up with the user, directly between the floors. For a Dartmouth home where a wheelchair is in daily use, the lift is generally the more capable and longer-lasting choice.

Yes. Servicing is part of every OnLevel installation. Once your Dartmouth lift is fitted, our engineers return on a regular plan to inspect, test and certify it, across Kingswear, Stoke Fleming, Blackawton and Strete, and respond quickly should a fault appear. Routine maintenance keeps the lift safe, reliable and fully compliant year after year.

Very little indeed. A shallow 150mm pit and no machinery mean a corner or the space beside the stair is usually enough, which suits the older harbourside terraces and hillside cottages whose steep stairs and close walls would never make room for a fully shafted conventional lift.

Yes. Our engineers hold SafeContractor accreditation under CN8516, and every Dartmouth 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.