Platform Lift & Home Lift
Installation Ashington

A through-floor home lift in Ashington normally starts in the region of £18,000 to £22,000, while a compact commercial platform lift for a Station Road shop or surgery generally begins around £15,000 depending on travel height and finish. Outdoor wheelchair lifts come in lower. We survey your property first and provide a fixed written quotation, so the price covers supply, installation and certification with no extra charges appearing afterwards.

An internal home lift in an Ashington house rarely needs planning permission, because it is classed as an internal alteration rather than an extension. The work is covered by Building Regulations, which we manage on your behalf. If you want an external lift, or your property lies within a conservation area, we check the proposal with Northumberland County Council before any work starts so everything is properly cleared.

Most lift installations in Ashington take three to five working days. A straightforward through-floor lift between two rooms can be done in two to three days, while a commercial cabin lift for a larger building runs slightly longer. We set out a firm schedule after the survey, and our engineers keep the site tidy so your Ashington home or business carries on as normally as possible throughout.

Yes. Ashington's colliery terraces are among the homes we fit most often, and a through-floor lift suits them because it needs neither a shaft nor a machine room. It travels through a small opening between a downstairs room and the bedroom above, taking roughly the space of an armchair. We survey the floor structure of the cottage first to settle on the position that works best for the layout.

For many Ashington homes it is. A stairlift carries one seated person and leaves the staircase partly blocked, while a platform or through-floor lift takes a wheelchair, a walking frame or two people standing, and keeps the stairs clear for the household. Where access needs may grow over the years, the lift gives much more scope to adapt, which matters in the town's compact terraced housing.

Yes. We service and maintain every lift we install across Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Morpeth and Pegswood, and we also take on lifts fitted by other companies. Regular servicing keeps a lift safe, smooth and compliant, and our local engineers respond promptly to call-outs. Most Ashington clients take an annual maintenance plan that includes a full inspection and priority response if anything ever needs looking at.

Less than you might expect in a terraced home. A through-floor lift uses about the footprint of a small armchair on each floor, around 1.5 square metres, and sits on a shallow 150mm pit rather than deep excavation. A wheelchair platform lift needs clear floor for the platform plus its approach. During the survey we measure the rooms and recommend the most compact unit that still carries everyone in comfort.

Yes. Our engineers are SafeContractor accredited under CN8516, and we install to EN 81-41 for vertical lifting platforms, Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2018. We use our own trained teams rather than subcontractors on every Ashington installation, so the same people survey, fit and commission the lift. Each one is tested, certified and signed off before handover, with full documentation left with you for your records.