Residential & Commercial Vertical Platform Lifts
At Alliance Platform Lifts, we specialise in the supply and installation of residential and commercial vertical platform lifts, delivering a complete turnkey service. From the initial specialist survey and lift specification through to manufacture, all associated building and electrical works, installation, commissioning, and ongoing aftercare, our experienced team manages every stage of the project.
Our Vertical Platform Lifts
About our vertical platform lifts
The purpose of a vertical platform lift—to provide safe and convenient movement between levels in a domestic or commercial building—may seem straightforward. However, delivering a solution that also meets expectations for appearance, ease of use, long-term reliability, durability, and full regulatory compliance requires specialist expertise.
That’s why at Alliance Platform Lifts, we go beyond standard off-the-shelf indoor and outdoor vertical platform lift solutions. We take a collaborative, tailored approach, working closely with our clients to understand their building, usage requirements, and design priorities. This ensures every vertical platform lift we install is carefully specified and delivers the optimal balance of performance, compliance, and aesthetics.
Indoor & outdoor vertical platform lifts
At Alliance Platform Lifts, we design and install vertical platform lifts that perform reliably and look at home in both indoor and outdoor environments. Each lift is carefully specified to suit its setting, ensuring long-term performance and visual harmony.
External and specialist installations often present additional challenges, including exposure to harsh weather, flooding, or corrosive environments such as swimming pool areas or coastal locations close to salt water. Our bespoke approach allows us to specify appropriate materials, finishes, and protective features to ensure reliable operation and durability in these demanding conditions.
By combining specialist engineering expertise with close client collaboration, we deliver vertical platform lifts that offer strong aesthetic appeal and dependable performance, even in the most challenging environments.
What are the benefits of a vertical platform lift?
A vertical platform lift offers a practical and reliable way to improve accessibility between levels in both residential and commercial buildings. It provides safe, step-free access for wheelchair users and those with reduced mobility, helping to support independence and inclusive use of a space. Vertical platform lifts are a space-efficient and cost-effective alternative to traditional passenger lifts, requiring less structural work while still delivering dependable performance. Suitable for indoor or outdoor installation, they can be tailored in terms of platform size, travel height, door configuration, and finishes to suit the building and its users. With simple, intuitive operation, full compliance with current safety and accessibility regulations, and long-term reliability, a vertical platform lift is a versatile solution for enhancing access without compromising the layout or appearance of a property.
Commercial & domestic vertical lifts
While some of those who enquire to us about our vertical platform lifts do so because they would like to have the perfect high-end lift solution created for their home, we also cater to many commercial customers.
After all, a commercial or public site is likely to benefit from many more visitors and potential customers, if those visitors are made to feel welcome in the premises. The right vertical platform lift – or several – will be able to greatly contribute to this aim.
Features of our vertical platform lifts
Our vertical platform lifts provide safe, reliable, and easy-to-use access between levels for both residential and commercial properties. Designed with user comfort and safety in mind, they incorporate key features such as smooth operation, intuitive controls, and full compliance with current regulations.
Each vertical platform lift can be customised to suit your specific requirements, with options including platform size, travel height, door or gate configuration, and finishes. Additional features such as battery backup, automatic door operation can also be incorporated, ensuring the lift integrates seamlessly into its environment and delivers dependable long-term performance.
Vertical platform wheelchair lifts
Wheelchair users are likely to be particularly appreciative of how the right vertical platform lift can assist them in moving around a domestic or commercial site.
Disabled access lifts as designed, fabricated, and installed by Alliance Platform Lifts, can offer a variety of features and benefits, including:
Improves accessibility by providing safe, step-free movement between levels
Ideal for wheelchair users and people with reduced mobility
Space-efficient solution, requiring less room than a conventional passenger lift
Suitable for residential and commercial properties
Can be installed indoors or outdoors
Customisable design, including platform size, travel height, doors, and finishes
Cost-effective alternative to passenger lifts
Minimal structural impact compared to traditional lift installations
Reliable, durable performance with straightforward maintenance
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 vertical platform lift is a lift designed to provide safe, step-free access between different levels of a building, primarily for wheelchair users and people with reduced mobility. Unlike traditional passenger lifts, vertical platform lifts typically travel shorter distances and require less space and structural alteration, making them ideal for both residential and commercial properties. They can be installed indoors or outdoors and are commonly used where ramps are impractical or where a cost-effective, compliant accessibility solution is required.
The specifics of the installation process will largely depend on the exact design we have agreed on with the customer.
Nonetheless, one of the consistent aspects of our vertical platform lifts is that they are designed and made to be assembled in modules, with the installation process causing as little disruption to the wider building – and its users – as possible.
So, whatever the size and other specifications of your vertical platform lift may be when you order it from Alliance Platform Lifts, you can expect our fully qualified team to install it quickly and easily – usually within a day or two! This will enable you to soon make active use of your finished lift.
A platform lift works by raising and lowering a flat platform vertically between levels using a powered drive system, allowing safe and controlled access for wheelchair users and people with reduced mobility. The user enters the platform at one level, secures themselves in place, and then operates the lift using simple, intuitive controls.
The lift is driven by an electric motor and lifting mechanism (such as a screw-and-nut or hydraulic system, depending on the model), which moves the platform smoothly along guide rails. Safety features including interlocked doors or gates, safety edges, emergency stop controls, and battery backup ensure the lift operates safely and reliably. Platform lifts are designed to stop level with each floor, providing step-free access at entry and exit points, and are fully compliant with relevant safety and accessibility regulations.
Various factors will determine how much a vertical platform lift costs. These include such matters as the specific type and model of lift that has been requested, as well as the operation system that is used for the lift, not to mention the materials and finish.
Something else that will influence the price of any given vertical platform lift, is the number of stops it will need to make around the property where it is to be installed. After all, this will impact on how much building work is required, and the all-round complexity of the installation process.
Alliance Platform Lifts are dedicated to providing our customers with high quality, exceptional and circular glass lifts, cabin lifts and bespoke domestic lifts, with cost-effective support for life.
