Commercial Wheelchair Lifts in Hummelstown, PA

Lift options for the borough and the townships

Brownstone stoops and church entrances: an enclosed outdoor Savaria V-1504 on a pad beside the steps, 750 lb, weather rated, interlocked doors at the sidewalk and the landing; the Ascension Clarity where a glass enclosure suits a stone facade. Chancels, stages, and raised floors: Ascension Protégé to 42 inches and Virtuoso to 60 inches with no pit and no ramp. Fellowship halls, second floors, and split-level offices: the V-1504 with the commercial package in a framed hoistway, up to 14 feet of travel, or the Prolift enclosed cab with automatic doors for a lobby or a practice. Straight Main Street flights: the Savaria Delta inclined lift, when the flight keeps its egress width folded. Short rises outdoors: a 72 inch enclosed Multilift, or a modular ramp when the rise is under about 30 inches and there is room, which the township sites usually have and the borough sites usually do not.

Cost in Hummelstown versus an elevator

A 150 year old brownstone building has no sensible place for an elevator shaft, and even the newer township buildings would face a hoistway, a deep pit, a machine room, fire-rated construction, and months of a general contractor's time for a limited-use or passenger elevator. A commercial platform lift needs a shallow pit or a short ramp, a dedicated circuit, and an enclosure or a simple framed hoistway, and it is installed in two to five days. It costs more than a residential porch lift because of the enclosure, the interlocked doors, and the state permit and inspection, and it is nearly always the lower cost alternative to a limited-use elevator for one or two levels. Hummelstown and Lower Paxton are inside our closest service ring with no travel charge. The written quote arrives within 24 hours of the visit with the permit and initial inspection on their own line, written so a church council, a fire company board, or a practice's partners can act on one number. The factors are in our post on vertical platform lift cost.

Permits and inspection in Dauphin County

Every commercial lift in Hummelstown, South Hanover, and Lower Paxton follows ASME A18.1 as adopted by the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code and is permitted by the Department of Labor and Industry. We file the state permit and drawings before the lift is ordered, prepare the local building permit package for the borough or the township's codes office, install, perform the acceptance test while a certified elevator inspector witnesses it, and handle the Certificate of Operation before the lift is used. Periodic inspections follow, and our service plans include the tests. Offices, restaurants, and halls open to the public fall under the ADA's barrier removal expectations and the lift must operate unattended; township buildings fall under Title II; churches are generally exempt from the ADA but not from the state permit. The Dauphin County inspectors are the ones we work with most, so the witnessed test is routine to schedule. The general rules are in our ADA platform lift guide and the post on permits for a wheelchair lift.

Scheduling in Hummelstown and Lower Paxton

Hummelstown is on the same route as Hershey and Harrisburg, and Linglestown, Colonial Park, Paxtonia, Grantville, and Middletown are minutes apart, so a site visit usually fits within a few days and service is quick. Installation takes two to five days, scheduled around services, office hours, and hall rentals, with the pad or hoistway done beforehand from our drawings by the building's contractor or ours. Nearby commercial pages: Hershey and Harrisburg. The overview and the building-type pages, including businesses and municipal buildings, start at commercial wheelchair lifts.

Drive time and scheduling

Hummelstown is about 25 minutes from our shop in Etters, PA. We group commercial site visits with our regular routes, so a visit in Hummelstown 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: South Hanover Township, Lower Paxton Township, Linglestown, Colonial Park, Paxtonia, Hershey, Middletown, Grantville.