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.

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.