Cheapest Home Elevators

The cheapest home elevator is not available in the Austin area from us. But perhaps you are learning about mobility solutions trying to figure out what works best for you. If so, you have come to the right place.

The least expensive elevator-like option is a wheelchair lift known as a vertical platform lift. Unlike stair lifts that follow a rail track along a staircase, a vertical platform lift rises vertically just like an elevator. Depending on the modifications required to install the platform lift and its location, it will cost 50-60% of what a home elevator costs to install.

The least expensive elevator-like option is a wheelchair lift known as a vertical platform lift. Unlike stair lifts that follow a rail track along a staircase, a vertical platform lift rises vertically just like an elevator. Depending on the modifications required to install the platform lift and its location, it will cost 50-60% of what a home elevator costs to install.

So, what’s the difference between a lift and a home elevator? A platform lift has no shaft or enclosure. The platform is not a cab that protects you from the edge. A lift requires some education to operate it. It is not difficult, but it is not intuitive like the button-operated, automatic-opening home elevators that operate almost identically to elevators in commercial building.

And, finally because of the open, no frills construction, most people find them rugged in appearance lacking aesthetic appeal. So they are usually installed outdoors.

Platform lifts are great solutions for porch lifts that transfer someone just a few feet. But most people do not want to install a platform lift inside their home or face the safety issues of an open platform carrying people, especially unfamiliar visitors the vertical height required to go from one floor of the home to the next.

The cost of our PVE vacuum elevators vary due to the unknowns of pre- and post-construction needs. Learn more about costs of installing a home elevator.

Compared to the platform lift, our home elevators offer exceptional value because:

• Vacuum elevators are free-standing, self-contained units custom-built to fit your home that require to shaft. Our construction team creates the holes between the floors carefully finishing them out to match your home’s architecture. Then they stack your unit and plug it in to a 220 V circuit installed during pre-construction. The simple and fast installation saves money over traditional elevator installation costs.
• The PVE elevators have all the features of commercial elevators you and your guests recognize from push button controls to in-cab telephone to automatically operating doors.
• Vacuum elevators’ standalone construction makes it possible to install your home elevator in a wide variety of locations in your home.
• The cab is fully enclosed offering security and comfort for its passengers.
• A bonus is that maintenance on a PVE elevator is only required about every 5 years so you save money over time.

If after learning the downside to platform lifts, you feel the additional investment in a home elevator makes the most sense for you and your family, invite us for an in-home elevator consultation that is required to make the right recommendations for you and to estimate your actual installation costs. We can provide you information to help you decide whether moving or aging-in-place is right for you.