Wednesday, December 31, 2008

How To Choose The Right Stair Lifts




I hope you already read my previous articles on “How To Choose Right Stair Lifts Provider”. Now, I would like to share on “How To Choose The Right Stair Lifts” for your home. There are many types and brand of stair lifts in the market. Different types of stair lifts sometimes have different function for different requirement. To get the right stair lifts is very important to ensure that you will get the right type of stair lifts to fit with your needs.

The best stair lifts is the stair lifts that can make you feel comfortable, safe and independence in your own home. In this article I would like to share some tips on how to choose a right stair lifts. These tips can be your checklist or your stair lifts buying guide before you buy a stair lifts for your home. We hope this checklist will help you to make a more informed decision about which type of stair lifts is right for you.

Firstly, you must identify your staircase location whether it is located inside your house or outside of your house. If it is located inside your house, you need to have an indoor stair lifts. You need to buy an outdoor stair lifts if your stair is located outside of your house, whether leading up to your garden or going down to your basement. Outdoor and indoor stair lifts have different specification. Outdoor stair lifts is reliable and can be operated in any whether conditions, rain or shine. Anyway, outdoor stair lifts is also safe, versatile and easy to control as indoor stair lifts.

Secondly, is your stair lifts will be used for children or for adult? Children stair lifts and adult stair lifts have different specification especially on the seat, the size and the safety features. For those families who have disable children at home, you need a children type stair lifts. Not many stair lifts manufacturer produce stair lifts for children. So, you need to find out first whether your stair lifts provider carry stair lifts for children.

Next, whether your stair is straight, curve, have corner or have a corridor in between your stairs. Do not worry on your staircase shape and size. The good stair lifts provider will build and install a set of stair lifts which will adapt to your house, not the other way round. They have special design stair lifts to suit with your needs. They will build a tailor-made stair lifts rail to fit with your stair condition.

Below is an illustration on the type of staircase. You can use this staircase illustration to compare with what you have at home. Image 1 & 2 is a straight staircase. Image 3 is spiral staircase, image 4 is a curved staircase, image 5 is a curved staircase with a quarter landing and image 6 is of a curved staircase with a half landing. Different type of staircase you need to have different type and specification of stair lifts. Normally, the cheapest stair lifts is installed for the straight staircase.




Your safety is important at all times. Get a stair lifts that manufactured and tested to conform to the last European and British safety standards and quality like British Standard BS5776. Therefore, get a stair lifts with safety features like seatbelt that easily can be fastened even with one hand. Some stair lifts models have special safety features like seat load sensor. This sensor will ensure that the stair lifts will not start moving until you are comfortably seated on the stair lifts. Get a stair lifts with two way power swivel feature. This feature enables the chair to swivel to the safest position at both the top and bottom of the stairs, particularly useful in tight spaces. Some other safety features for your stair lifts are lockable isolation switch and safety cut-out sensors.

Get a stair lifts that blend with your home concept. There are many types and designs of stair lifts that you can choose in the market. You can select the design of the stair lifts not only base on your needs, but also to suit with your home. Even the colour of the stair lifts that you can choose from a range of woven fabrics or soft-to-touch vinyls or a full grain leather upholstery. Now, the stair lifts is not only another machinery equipment in your house, but also a decoration features that will make your house more stylish and modern look.

So, know what is your needs before you buy a stair lifts. However, do not neglect on the safety issues before you consider to buy a stair lifts. In my next article, I will touch on the stair lifts buying process. It will guide you on how to start to talk to your stair lifts supplier and what other important points that you need to know before you confirm to have your first stair lifts.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

HOW TO CHOOSE A RIGHT STAIR LIFTS PROVIDER?


A critical decision that you have to make is to choose a stair lifts provider. You have to do a right decision to get a right stair lifts provider before you buy the stair lifts. To get a right stair lifts provider is very important especially to ensure that the product that they supplied to you will suit with your needs. In this article, we would like to share some tips on how to choose a right stair lifts provider. These tips can be your checklist or your stair lifts buying guide before you buy a stair lifts for your home. We hope this checklist will help you to make a more informed decision about which stair lift supplier is right for you.


1. What is your stair lifts provider?


Are they a stair lifts supplier or stair lifts manufacturer? To ensure you can get the best stair lifts to suit with your needs, we would suggest you to get a stair lifts manufacturer instead of a stair lifts provider that taking the stair lifts from other manufacturer. There are some stair lifts manufacturers are also a supplier to market the stair lifts to the end user. Why this is important? Stair lifts manufacturer will design the stair lifts base on your needs. You also can get manufacturer price which is cheaper compare with supplier prices.

2. Who is your stair lifts provider?


Get a good reputation of stair lifts provider to install the stair lifts for your home. You can get the information of stair lifts companies by searching in internet. You also can ask the stair lifts company to send their brochure and company background on producing stair lifts. How long they are in the market? How many stair lifts they have produce so far? How is their stair lifts design?Is their product is only for local market or international?

3. How is the quality and standard of stair lifts?



Is the stair lifts provider has any qualification on any standard level for their stair lifts? In some country there is a body that can award on quality standard for the product. In Britain, the stair lifts manufacturer can obtain full qualification to British Standard BS5776 if their products are qualified with the certain requirement.

4. Are they a member of LEIA?



LEIA is stand for Lift and Escalator Industry Association. A stair lifts manufacturer who is a member of Lift and Escalator Industry Association is tight with certain level of standard on producing stair lifts. If your stair lifts manufacturer is a member of LEIA, at least you no need so much worry on their stair lifts quality and company reputation.

5. Stair lifts provider is also your consultants.

Get a stair lifts provider that can consult you. Some good stair lifts companies can provides a free, no obligation consultation and quotation. They will send a well-trained consultant to your home, assess your staircase, discuss with you on what kind of stair lifts that you might need, informing you on the installation process and answering any questions or concerns you might have. They also will give some opinion and advises on the stair lifts that suitable with your needs and home concept.

6. How is their after-sales service?



Get a stair lifts provider that can provide excellent support and ongoing service. Make sure their sales support team is reliable with locally-based qualified engineer that standby 24 hours and 365 days. Make sure your stair lifts provider has a national network of stair lifts service center with 24-hour manned helpline that can respond quickly in the unlikely event that you need assistance. Some good stair lifts providers are providing after-sales service even during Christmas Day.

The above information is some points that you can put into consideration for you to choose a right stair lifts provider. Be careful about cold callers who try to sell you a stair lifts. Take your time to make the right decision. In the next article, we would like to share with you on how to choose a right stair lifts to suit with your needs.


Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Stair Lifts - Get to Know Stair Lifts Before You Buy


If you have elderly or disable family members and stairs become a problem for them to move, do not move to a new house first. Get a cheaper way or maybe much cheaper and less stressful than moving house by getting stair lifts as a solution. Before you buy a stair lifts, you must know what stair lifts are all about.

In this website, we would like to share some comprehensive information and tips on stair lifts as a guide for you before you buy. As a stair lifts buying guide, we will present to you a basic knowledge of stair lifts in a simple way for you to understand, some valuable tips before and after you buy stair lifts, stair lifts manufacturer and supplier for you to contact, review of the products and news about stair lifts.

What is stair lifts? Stair lifts is a device that can lifts or glide people up and down stairs. Users just sit on an electronic chair that gliding along a rail (or double rails) attached to the treads of the stairs by metal cleats. The stair lifts commonly comprises a fold-up seat with armrest, footrest and non fiddly operation with joystick control.

Stair lifts is also known as chair lift or stair glider or home stair chair lifts. At certain places, stair lifts spelled as “stairlift" or “stairlifts”, are also referred to the same product. Does not matter whether you have straight stairs or curved stairs, the manufacturer of the stair lifts can suit with your home and fit with your needs. They will provide a custom-built stair lifts to ensure that they fit perfectly into your home. Not only have that, even the combination of colors and with verity model of stair lifts that you can choose to suit with your home concept.

Stair lifts or stairlifts are not only for indoor usage. There are also stair lifts for outdoor usage. Outdoor stairs are now commonly have in many properties whether leading up to a garden or going down to a basement. Therefore, reliable stair lifts that can be operated in any weather conditions, rain or shine, is required. There are many reliable, versatile and safe outdoor stair lifts in the market now that you can find to suit with your requirement.

For elderly or disable people, stair lifts usage is very important to go up and down the stairs. It is convenience, safe and easy. To have a set of stair lifts at home is a good decision rather than move to a single story house. For elderly relatives who will stay in your house in short time, you can rent a stair lifts for certain period from the supplier.

For those who are interested to buy a stair lifts or stairlifts, get to know the stair lifts first. In the coming articles, I will touch more on comprehensive information and tips of buying stair lifts. I will provide some tips to chose the best stair lifts supplier or manufacturer, to get the best stair lifts to suit with your needs, process of buying stair lifts and many more all about stair lifts or stairlifts. I hope by sharing this information, it will help all of us to get better stair lifts that can fit with our needs and suit with our home concept.