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1 What are low-cost elevator options?

When considering a home elevator for a new home, some hoistway elevator types cost less than others.

Winding drum

Usually the least expensive option. As it sounds, this elevator is powered by a cable wound around a drum attached to an electric motor. The motor & drum can be located at the top of the hoistway, eliminating the need for a separate machine room. The tradeoff of price savings is the ride performance, winding drum units are noisier and don’t possess the same ride performance and safety redundancies as other options.

Homelift

When considering the total project cost for existing homes, the best low-cost elevator solution is the Homelift. Homelifts move through a reinforced aperture between the two floors being served without the need of a hoistway. The renovation work to accept the device compared with a traditional hoistway elevator is minimal.

2 What are home lifts and how much do home lifts costs?

Homelifts by Cambridge Elevating is our latest contribution to the Aging in Place sector, addressing the need for mobility in existing homes.

All work (design, preparatory renovation and installation) is carefully planned and coordinated by Cambridge Elevating. We offer free home assessments and encouraged those interest to visit and ride our showroom model.

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3 Which residential elevator company should you choose?

Here’s a look at various elevator manufacturers and what they offer:

Savaria

Headquartered in Laval, Quebec with manufacturing facilities in Europe and China, Savaria has been offering accessibility solutions since 1989. Their products include various wheelchair lifts and low-rise elevators for residential and commercial use and accessible van conversions. Savaria’s Telecab is a hydraulic driven shaftless elevator, suitable for existing homes. The Telecab cost is low but requires a packed support wall which increases the total project cost. Savaria also offers a luxury glass cab & hoistway elevator option for new and existing homes called the Vuelift. The Vuelift cost will be more than all other traditional home elevators because it includes a glass enclosure within the price.

Symmetry Elevators

With over 80 offices across the U.S., Symmetry Elevators offers an expansive product list, including residential elevators, wheelchair lifts and vertical lifts. Recently Symmetry has partnered with Staying Home Corp to distribute their shaftless residential elevator. This unit uses battery operation technology borrowed from stair lifts and requires a support wall. Symmetry does not have a strong presence in Canada.

4 Types of Home Elevators

There are two primary categories of home elevators that move riders between levels within their home, those that operate within an enclosure or hoistway, and those that don’t require a hoistway, or what’s referred to as shaftless elevators.

Hoistway Elevators

These traditional systems are designed to move automatically between different levels within the home and thereby require a hoistway to surround the elevator car for safety. There exists a door at each landing combined with a door (or gate) on the cab. For level access at the bottom landing a recessed pit is required. Accommodating these requirements are far easier and more cost effective within a newly built home versus existing. The following are different types of hoistway home elevators:

• Roped Hydraulic: The combination of a hydraulic pump, a piston and ropes are used to raise and lower the elevator. Used for many decades and known for smooth and quiet performance along with strong reliability. Hydraulic systems require a separate space or machine room.
• Winding Drum: An electric motor winds two cables or wire ropes directly onto steel drums that raise and lower the elevator. Depending on the motor location, they don’t always need a machine room. Not as smooth or quiet as other available options.
• Electric Counter-weight: The elevator car is balanced and connected to a counterweight assembly by chains or rope which are driven by a geared electric motor at the top of the rail system. Geared electric systems do not require a separate machine room.

Shaftless or 2-floor elevators

As it sounds, the elevator or lift moves through a cut-out in the floor between two floors without a shaft enclosing the system. These are generally used in existing homes due to their small footprint and limited construction requirements. Drive system options are hydraulic or winding drum cable. What largely separates these variants is how the 2-floor elevator is supported within the home.

• Rear support: The lift’s tower attaches to a support wall within the home.
• Floor joist support: The lift is primarily supported by the home’s floor joist using a structural ring beam.
• Support posts: Self-supporting vertical guides attached bear load of the elevator.

Homelifts by Cambridge Elevating is an example of a shaftless elevator. While every home and desired install location is unique, a typical 2 floor elevator cost will be approximately $35,000 to $45,000 with the homelift device itself being HST zero-rated.

5 Home elevators for your forever home

When designing and building one’s forever home, two key factors should be considered before the design stage is Future Proofing and Age-In-Place.

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