11-25-2017, 10:47 PM
I installed a stair-lift in my parents' house a year ago and just installed a second one to the lower family room level. When you need them you really need them. I considered a vertical lift or elevator but had no room. The first lift cost $800. The second lift cost $1350 with delivery and some help installing it. Both were used. I found them on Craigslist. They are just so much simpler than an elevator. What I might have preferred was an inclined platform lift. It installs over the existing stairs. When the platform is at the bottom you can descend the stairs in the conventional manner and you end up standing on the platform which is resting on the floor. The difference from the stair lift is that a wheelchair can ride on it. They seemed to go for $8000 th $10000.