News:
  • Movies with Great Interior Design
  • Why Diamond Art Painting Is a Fitting Hobby for These Times
  • The Economy of Harshness: Peter Bagge and HATE
  • New Beginnings, One Step at a Time
  • Inside the ICU: A Nurse’s View of Covid-19 in Los Angeles
  • Poets on Craft: Jay Rogoff and Mary Kathryn Jablonski
  • Contact us
  • About
    • What is Cultural Weekly?
    • Advertise
    • Contributors
    • Masthead
    • Subscribe
    • Submissions: Write for us
    • Cultural Weekly Style & Formatting Guide
  • Contact us
  • About
    • What is Cultural Weekly?
    • Advertise
    • Contributors
    • Masthead
    • Subscribe
    • Submissions: Write for us
    • Cultural Weekly Style & Formatting Guide
Cultural Weekly logo
  • Film
  • TV + Web
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Literature
  • Theatre
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Tech
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Film
  • TV + Web
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Literature
  • Theatre
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Tech
  • Lifestyle
  • Food

6 Things to Consider When Choosing a Stair Lift

By Our Friends on June 14, 2019 inLifestyle

stair lift
Click Here To View Comments

If you have made the decision to purchase a stair lift in order to easily go up and down the stairs in your home, it can be difficult to decide which stair lift is right for you—and for your stairs. Thankfully, there are a few things to keep in mind when you are choosing a stair lift that will allow you to make the best choice for your enhanced mobility. Here are six things to consider when choosing a stairlift.

1. Type of Staircase

Depending on the age and size of the home, your staircase might be big, small, jagged, or straight. If you have a straight staircase, a standard rail stairlift should suffice, but if you have a curved staircase or a staircase with landings, you may need a curved rail that can be custom made for your home. Take a look at this ultimate stair lift guide to help you decide which lift is the right one for your home’s structural needs.

2. User’s Mobility

You need to take into account the mobility of the person that the stair lift is for. If it is for you, ensure that you choose a model that you know will fit your exact needs with attention to features such as ease of access and location of the lift. For example, if you have two flights of stairs in your home, you could either have a custom curved rail to get up both flights, or if you are able to easily switch seats on a landing, you could save money with two separate straight rails for each set of stairs.

3. Budget

It is important to go into this search for a stair lift with an idea of what you want to spend. For a new straight-rail stair lift, you could be looking at paying around $3,000, and a curved stair lift starts at $9,500, so it is important to decide what exactly you are looking for and stick to that budget. While on the topic of budget, it is also important to consider taking a cheaper route…

4. Consider Buying Used

A lot of local dealers will also have used models in stock for sale. These models are usually still in great shape, but they will cost a fraction of the price.

If your budget is not quite ready for a brand-new curved stairlift, it might be a good idea to ask about the used options to see if one of them would work for you.

5. Seat Size and Weight Capacity

Most stair lifts will have a weight capacity of 300 pounds, so if you find that you may need a seat that has a higher weight capacity, you could be looking into some more expensive stair lifts.

If you do need a more heavy-duty model, also keep in mind that it will take up more space on the stairs, so plan accordingly.

6. Visit a Showroom

The best way to decide on a stair lift is to try out the different options for yourself. Many showrooms will allow you to sit on the lifts and assess their comfort, stability, and safety before you buy.

Many people looking into making the investment of a stairlift have never actually been on one, so it is a good idea to test one out to see how it rides before they install.

If you are looking into installing a stair lift, it can feel like there are countless options to choose from, but as long as you go in with these six decisions in mind, you should have no problem finding the perfect stairlift for you that is within your budget.

Click Here To View Comments

Tagsmobilitystairlift

Previous Story

Augmented Reality Driving Tech (New Startups are Paving The Way)

Next Story

Tydale Abigail: Three Poems

About the author

Our Friends

Our Friends

Our Friends is the by-line for Sponsored Content on Cultural Weekly. The content is provided by a sponsoring party to provide information to our readers. (Shaking hands photo by Flazingo under Creative Commons 2.0 License.)

Support Our Friends

Follow Us

Join Our Mailing List

Latest Tweets

Tweets by @CulturalWeekly

Comments

  • maurice amiel maurice amiel
    Abigail Wee: “Growing Home”
    A first place well deserved While the particular...
    1/24/2021
  • maurice amiel maurice amiel
    Jack Reads “Pronto, Professore“
    In my last architectural history paper, back in...
    1/22/2021
  • Bambi Here Bambi Here
    Support the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize
    Yes – poetry! Thank you, Jack.
    1/21/2021

New

  • 5 Steps to Prep a Home For the Market
  • Movies with Great Interior Design
  • Why Diamond Art Painting Is a Fitting Hobby for These Times
  • Exciting Ways To Learn Peruvian History
  • David A. Romero’s My Name Is Romero

Tags

art dance film Los Angeles music photography poem poems poetry tomorrow's voices today

Like us

Please Help

Donate

Who are we?

Cultural Weekly is a place to talk about our creative culture with passion, perspective and analysis – and more words than “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Our mission is to draw attention to our cultural environment, illuminate it, and make it ... read more

Site map

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact us
  • Contributors
  • Cultural Weekly Style & Formatting Guide
  • Food
  • Home
  • Masthead
  • Privacy Policy/Do Not Sell My Personal Information
  • Submission Form
  • Submissions: Write for us
  • Subscribe
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Thank You

Links

Adam Leipzig
Entertainment Media Partners
This Is Crowd
CreativeFuture
Plastic Oceans Foundation
Arts & Letters Daily
Alltop
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Jack Grapes
Ethan Bearman
Writ Large Press

Mailing List

* indicates required


  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy/Do Not Sell My Personal Information
  • Contact us
Cultural Weekly is the digital magazine and public platform of Next Echo Foundation. DONATE HERE.
Copyright © 2010-2020 by Adam Leipzig. All Rights Reserved.