Commercial Wheelchair Lifts in Mechanicsburg, PA

Lift options for Mechanicsburg buildings

Split-level office buildings: the Savaria Prolift pictured above, an enclosed cab with automatic doors that rides like a small elevator and carries 750 to 1,400 lb, or a Savaria V-1504 with the commercial package in a framed hoistway, up to 14 feet of travel, usually three stops for a split level. Porch entrances on converted houses: an enclosed outdoor V-1504 on a pad beside the steps, weather rated, interlocked doors at the walk and the porch, specified for a patient arriving alone. Chancels, stages, and raised dining rooms: Ascension Protégé up to 42 inches and Virtuoso up to 60 inches, no pit and no ramp. Straight flights with no floor space: the Savaria Delta inclined lift. Short rises: a modular ramp under about 30 inches when the site has the run, which many West Shore lots do. Practices and offices in general are covered on the businesses page.

Cost on the West Shore, and why not an elevator

Mechanicsburg is twenty minutes from our shop, inside our closest service ring, so there is no travel charge for the visit or the installation and service is quick. A commercial platform 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. Retrofitting an elevator into a 1970s split-level office building means a hoistway through the floors, a deep pit, a machine room, fire-rated construction, and displaced tenants for months; a Prolift or a V-1504 in a framed hoistway goes in over two to five days with the building occupied. For practices in leased suites, the landlord usually signs the permit application and the lift is often negotiated as a building 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 Cumberland County

Commercial lifts in Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, and the surrounding townships follow ASME A18.1 as adopted by the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code and are permitted through 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's 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 first patient or visitor rides. Periodic inspections follow, and our service plans include the tests. Medical practices, offices, and restaurants are public accommodations under the ADA, which expects barrier removal where readily achievable and a lift that works without staff help; township buildings fall under Title II; churches are generally exempt from the ADA but not from the state permit. Our ADA platform lift guide covers the general rules, and the post on permits for a wheelchair lift covers the process.

Scheduling on the West Shore

Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Shiremanstown, Enola, New Kingstown, and the Upper Allen, Hampden, Silver Spring, and Lower Allen township offices are all within a few minutes of each other on a route we drive daily, so a site visit is usually available within days and the witnessed test is easy to slot in. Practice lifts are installed around appointment hours, church lifts Monday through Thursday, township lifts around meetings, with the pad or hoistway finished beforehand from our drawings. For other products in town, see home elevators in Mechanicsburg. The Harrisburg page is at commercial wheelchair lifts in Harrisburg, and the full lineup starts at commercial wheelchair lifts.

Drive time and scheduling

Mechanicsburg is about 20 minutes from our shop in Etters, PA. We group commercial site visits with our regular routes, so a visit in Mechanicsburg 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: Camp Hill, Upper Allen Township, Hampden Township, Silver Spring Township, Shiremanstown, Lower Allen Township, Enola, New Kingstown.