Hidden Platform Lifts
A hidden platform lift offers a discreet and effective way to improve accessibility without compromising the appearance of your property. Designed to blend seamlessly into their surroundings, invisible platform lifts are ideal for both residential and commercial environments where aesthetics are a priority. At Alliance Platform Lifts, we specialise in the design, manufacture, and installation of bespoke hidden platform lifts, delivering solutions that are subtle, practical and reliable.
Our Hidden Platform Lifts
About invisible/hidden platform lifts
While platform lifts routinely play an extremely important role across a range of buildings by enabling easy, quick, and convenient movement around a given site, building owners do not always wish for such lifts to be highly visible.
This might be especially likely to be the case for heritage and listed buildings, where there is frequently a desire for platform lifts to be discreet in their design, being sympathetic to the wider structure and character of the building.
In the retail and hospitality sectors, invisible platform lifts are often popular because of their potentially space-saving designs. A hidden platform lift can be created, for example, where there isn’t a need for landing gates, thereby minimising the impact on the surrounding space.
Features of our invisible platform lifts
Invisible platform lifts can incorporate a wide range of features with regard to dimensions, materials, finishes, technology, and operating systems.
Our team at Alliance Platform Lifts can work closely with you, to help ensure every last detail of your hidden platform lift satisfies the everyday practical needs you have for your building. All the while, you can be confident that your final lift design will embody the seamless elegance that further helps to make this type of lift so popular.
For further information or to request a quotation, please contact us to speak to an experienced member of our team.
Benefits of hidden lifts to users
For building owners and day-to-day users alike, a well-designed invisible platform lift can offer a broad range of advantages:
Discreet, hidden design that blends seamlessly into floors or surrounding finishes
Preserves the appearance of the building, ideal for high-end, heritage, or architecturally sensitive spaces
Space-efficient solution with no permanent obstructions to walkways
Suitable for residential and commercial properties
Complies with accessibility and safety regulations
Customisable finishes and configurations to match flooring and interior design
Maintains property value and aesthetics while enhancing functionality
Supports inclusive access without compromising design intent
Support every step of the way
Our service is a start-to-finish, top-to-bottom one for anyone who is seeking to have a cabin lift created and fitted in their property. Our team operates in accordance with the following three-step process:
Design & Planning
We work closely with our clients to deliver the right platform lift solution from start to finish. Our process begins with a specialist site survey to assess your property and requirements, followed by collaborative design and specification to ensure the lift is perfectly suited to your requirements.
Installation
Our dedicated projects team is meticulous in their approach, providing detailed survey reports and ensuring that any works carried out by your builders (or ours) are carefully reviewed and checked. This attention to detail helps guarantee a smooth, efficient lift installation and ensures everything is in place before installation begins.
Maintenance
We provide comprehensive aftercare and ongoing support for all our clients, supported by cost-effective service and maintenance packages to keep your lift operating safely and reliably. For complete peace of mind, our 24/7 emergency call-out service is always available, ensuring prompt, expert assistance whenever it’s needed.
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Frequently asked questions
A hidden platform lift is essentially what it sounds like; a type of platform lift that is hidden in some way in the wider structure of the premises in which it is located.
Typically, a hidden platform lift – also sometimes referred to as an “invisible platform lift” – is built into the floor to allow for the mechanism to be completely concealed. Such a lift may have a platform that remains flush with the existing floor, even when it is not in active use.
As a building owner, you may choose an invisible platform lift for any of a wide range of reasons. You might be seeking out a lift solution that would look elegant and be visually sympathetic to the broader setting in which it is fitted, at the same time as helping to bolster accessibility at your site, including for disabled users of the premises.
Properties that are used for hospitality and retail purposes often benefit from the installation of a hidden platform lift. The same can be said for historical and listed buildings, where it is often a condition of the planning for a platform lift to blend in with its surroundings.
