Commercial Wheelchair Lifts in Hershey, PA

Lifts for practices, churches, and venues in Derry Township

Practice entrances: an enclosed outdoor Savaria V-1504 on a pad beside the porch steps, weather rated, 750 lb, interlocked doors at both landings, specified for unattended use so a patient can arrive alone. Indoor split levels and second floors: the V-1504 with the commercial package in a framed hoistway, like the automatic-door lift pictured above, or the Prolift enclosed cab for a practice that moves equipment or wants an elevator feel. Chancels, stages, and raised dining rooms: Ascension Protégé up to 42 inches and Virtuoso up to 60 inches, no pit, no ramp, finished to blend with the room. Straight flights with no floor space: the Savaria Delta inclined lift. Short rises: a modular ramp under about 30 inches, which we price alongside the lift when the lot allows it. Restaurants and shops have their own page at wheelchair lifts for restaurants and retail.

What a commercial lift costs in Hershey

Hershey is thirty minutes from our shop and inside our standard service area, so there is no travel charge for the visit or the installation. A commercial lift costs more than a residential porch lift because of the enclosure, the interlocked doors, and the state permit and inspection, and a fraction of what a limited-use or passenger elevator costs, since an elevator needs a hoistway, a deep pit, a machine room, and fire-rated construction. The platform lift goes in over two to five days; the elevator is a construction season. Practices in leased space should know that the landlord usually signs the permit application and that the lift can be written into a lease negotiation as an improvement. The written quote arrives within 24 hours of the visit with the permit and initial inspection on their own line. Our post on vertical platform lift cost lists the factors.

Permits and inspection in Derry Township

Commercial lifts in Hershey follow ASME A18.1 as adopted by the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code and are permitted through the Department of Labor and Industry. We prepare and file the state application and drawings before the lift is ordered, assemble the local building permit package for Derry Township's codes office, install, run the acceptance test with a certified elevator inspector watching, and handle the Certificate of Operation. Periodic inspections follow and our service plans cover them. Medical practices and restaurants are public accommodations under the ADA, which expects barrier removal where readily achievable and a lift that works without staff assistance; churches are generally exempt from the ADA but go through the same state process. Our ADA platform lift guide explains the general rules without promising a result for any one building, and the post on permits for a wheelchair lift covers the process.

Scheduling in Hershey

Hershey, Hummelstown, Palmyra, Campbelltown, Annville, and Grantville share a route we drive constantly, so a site visit is usually available within a few days. Practice lifts are installed around patient hours, often starting early and finishing before the afternoon schedule; church lifts Monday through Thursday; restaurant lifts on closed days. The pad or hoistway is finished beforehand from our drawings. For other products in town, see home elevators in Hershey. Nearby commercial pages: Hummelstown and Harrisburg. The full lineup and the building-type pages start at commercial wheelchair lifts.

Drive time and scheduling

Hershey is about 30 minutes from our shop in Etters, PA. We group commercial site visits with our regular routes, so a visit in Hershey 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: Derry Township, Hummelstown, Palmyra, Campbelltown, Annville, Grantville, Middletown, Elizabethtown.