Commercial Wheelchair Lifts in Lebanon, PA

Lift options for Lebanon buildings

Entrances and stoops: an enclosed outdoor Savaria V-1504 on a pad beside the steps, 750 lb, weather rated, interlocked doors at the sidewalk and the landing; where a Cumberland Street sidewalk is too narrow, a lift inside the door or at the rear entry. Chancels, stages, and raised floors: Ascension Protégé up to 42 inches and Virtuoso up to 60 inches on the finished floor, no pit, no ramp. Fellowship halls, lobbies, and second floors: 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, 750 to 1,400 lb, for a county office lobby or a practice that moves equipment. Straight flights with no floor space: the Savaria Delta inclined lift. Short rises: a 72 inch enclosed Multilift, or a modular ramp under about 30 inches when the site has the run. Apartment buildings with a shared split entry have their own page at wheelchair lifts for apartments.

What it costs in Lebanon, and why not an elevator

Lebanon is inside our standard service area, so there is no travel charge for the site 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. It is still a fraction of a limited-use or passenger elevator, which in a Lebanon church or fire hall would mean a hoistway with a deep pit, a machine room, fire-rated construction, and a general contractor's season, often in a building on a stone foundation with no room to spare. A platform lift is installed in two to five days. Lebanon's median household income is lower than its neighbors', and many of the congregations and companies we talk to are funding a lift from a memorial gift, a capital campaign, or a grant; the written quote is delivered within 24 hours of the visit with the permit and initial inspection on their own line so it can be shared that way, and financing is available. Our post on what a vertical platform lift costs walks through the factors.

Permits and inspection in Lebanon County

Commercial lifts in Lebanon County follow ASME A18.1 as adopted by the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code and go through the Department of Labor and Industry. We prepare the state permit and drawings and file them before the lift is ordered, assemble the local building permit package for the city's or the borough's codes office, install, perform the acceptance test while a certified elevator inspector witnesses it, and handle the Certificate of Operation. Periodic inspections follow, and our service plans include them. Where the ADA applies, offices, restaurants, and halls open to the public, the lift must work without an attendant and allow unassisted entry and exit; county and municipal buildings fall under Title II; religious organizations are generally exempt from the ADA but still go through the state process. Our ADA platform lift guide explains the general rules, and the post on wheelchair lift permits covers the steps.

Scheduling across Lebanon County

We are in Lebanon County most weeks for home lifts and ramps, and Annville, Cleona, Cornwall, Palmyra, Myerstown, Jonestown, Fredericksburg, and Schaefferstown are on the same route, so a site visit is usually available within a few days. Installation takes two to five days, scheduled around services, hall rentals, office hours, and school breaks, with the pad or hoistway completed beforehand from our drawings by the building's contractor or by ours. We walk the staff through the controls, the key switch, manual lowering, and the emergency stop before the witnessed test. For other products in town, see wheelchair ramps in Lebanon. Nearby commercial pages: Hershey and Lancaster. The overview is at commercial wheelchair lifts.

Drive time and scheduling

Lebanon is about 45 minutes from our shop in Etters, PA. We group commercial site visits with our regular routes, so a visit in Lebanon 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: Annville, Cleona, Cornwall, Palmyra, Myerstown, Jonestown, Fredericksburg, Schaefferstown.