Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation Stow-on-the-Wold

A platform lift in Stow-on-the-Wold usually costs between fifteen and thirty thousand pounds. The price reflects how many floors are served, the finish you choose and the building work required, which can be higher in older listed cottages. A simple home lift is at the lower end and an enclosed commercial lift more. We provide a fixed written quotation once we have surveyed your property.

A lift installed inside the house is an internal alteration and generally needs no planning permission, but it must meet Building Regulations. Many Stow homes are listed or stand within the Cotswolds conservation area, where listed building consent can apply even to internal work. We check your property's status during the survey and advise on any consent required before any work begins.

Most home installations in Stow-on-the-Wold take three to five days. The lift arrives factory-built and pre-wired, so the time spent on site stays short and the disruption low. Larger commercial lifts that require structural openings can take longer. Once the survey is complete we confirm a precise timescale within your written quotation so you can plan around the work.

Yes. The Cotswold-stone cottages around Stow's market square tend to have compact, low-ceilinged rooms, which a through-floor lift handles well by rising between two stacked rooms with no external shaft. We survey the floor structure and thick stone walls, then choose a position that respects the cottage's historic fabric while restoring access to the upper floor.

It depends on the user. A stairlift suits someone who can transfer onto a seat and manage a short walk. A platform lift is better for wheelchair users, since the chair rides up with the passenger. In Stow's old cottages, where staircases are steep and twisting, a platform lift often provides a safer and more comfortable journey between floors.

Yes. We service and maintain platform lifts across Stow-on-the-Wold and the neighbouring villages, including Maugersbury, Broadwell, Donnington, Bourton-on-the-Water and Moreton-in-Marsh. We offer planned maintenance visits and a prompt repair call-out, all carried out by the engineers who install our lifts. Regular servicing keeps your lift safe and compliant, and we keep full records for any warranty or insurance needs.

A home platform lift takes up roughly one square metre, about the size of a small armchair, plus clearance through to the floor above. It runs in a shallow 150mm pit and needs no separate machine room, so it fits neatly into a corner or hallway, even in a compact cottage. During our Stow survey we measure both rooms and confirm exactly where the lift will sit.

Yes. Our Stow-on-the-Wold installations are carried out by our own trained teams rather than subcontractors. We are SafeContractor accredited (CN8516) and work to EN 81-41, Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2018. Every lift is tested, certified and signed off before handover, so you receive full documentation and the assurance that the installation meets current safety and accessibility standards.