Commercial Wheelchair Lifts in Dover, PA

Lifts for halls, churches, and township buildings

Stages and chancels: the Ascension Protégé for a rise up to 42 inches and the Virtuoso up to 60 inches, set on the finished floor with no pit and no ramp across the hall, the type we installed at Heart Ministries in Harrisburg. Entrances and half flights: the Savaria V-1504 with the commercial package, enclosed outdoors on a pad beside the steps or in a framed hoistway indoors, 750 lb, up to 14 feet of travel, interlocked doors at each landing. Lobbies and offices: the Prolift enclosed cab with automatic doors, 750 to 1,400 lb. Straight flights with no room beside them: the Savaria Delta inclined lift, checked for the clear width that remains on the steps when it is folded. Short rises: a 72 inch enclosed Multilift, or a modular ramp when the rise is under about 30 inches and the lot has the run, which many fire halls do.

What it costs in northern York County

Fire companies and townships run on tight budgets and a lot of volunteer hours, and the elevator quote is usually what stalls a project for years. A commercial platform lift is a different scale: a shallow pit or a short ramp, a 120V circuit, an enclosure or a simple framed hoistway, and two to five days of installation, compared with the hoistway, pit, machine room, fire-rated construction, and months of a general contractor's time an elevator needs. It costs more than a residential porch lift because of the enclosure, the doors, and the state permit and inspection, and it is nearly always the lower cost alternative to a limited-use elevator for a one or two level building. Dover is twenty-five minutes from our shop, so there is no travel charge, and the written quote arrives within 24 hours of the visit with the permit and initial inspection on their own line, in a format that works for a fire company's board or a township's agenda and for grant applications. The factors are in our post on vertical platform lift cost.

Permits and inspection in York County townships

A lift in a fire hall, a church, or a township building is a commercial lift under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, which adopts ASME A18.1. We file the Department of Labor and Industry permit and drawings before the lift is ordered, prepare the local building permit package for the township's code official or third-party agency, install, perform the acceptance test while a certified elevator inspector witnesses it, and handle the Certificate of Operation before the first event. Periodic inspections follow, and our service plans include them. Title II of the ADA applies to township buildings, and the public accommodation rules reach a fire hall rented for events; religious organizations are generally exempt from the ADA but not from the state process. Where the ADA applies, the lift operates without an attendant. See the ADA platform lift guide and our post on permits for a wheelchair lift.

Scheduling north of York

Dover, Weigelstown, Manchester, Mount Wolf, Emigsville, Wellsville, and Rossville are all on the same short route from Etters, so visits and service are easy to fit. Fire hall lifts are scheduled between rentals, church lifts Monday through Thursday, township lifts around meetings and elections, with the pad or hoistway finished beforehand from our drawings. We walk the hall committee, the sexton, or the township staff through the controls, the key switch, manual lowering, and the emergency stop before we leave. The York city page is at commercial wheelchair lifts in York, and the full lineup starts at commercial wheelchair lifts, with building-type pages for municipal buildings and churches.

Drive time and scheduling

Dover is about 25 minutes from our shop in Etters, PA. We group commercial site visits with our regular routes, so a visit in Dover is usually available within a few days, and the written quote follows within 24 hours, including weekends. Nearby towns we cover from the same route: Weigelstown, Manchester, Mount Wolf, Wellsville, Rossville, Emigsville, Conewago Township, East Manchester Township.