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Machine Room Less Home Elevator: Benefits and Checks
October 08, 2026
A machine room less home elevator moves the machinery, it does not delete it — and that distinction decides what your house has to give
Search for a machine room less home elevator and the first page is a wall of manufacturer pages. Most say the same thing in the same order: the machine room is gone, the space is yours, the installation is simpler, and here is a form to request a quotation. None of them shows you where the machine actually went.
That omission is the reason this guide exists. A machine room less design is a real engineering change and a genuine gain, but it changes where things sit rather than how much equipment you buy. Once you can picture where the drive, the ropes and the controller end up, the questions worth asking become obvious and the conversation moves from brochures to your floor plan.
The short version
- Machine room less is one axis, not two. It describes where the drive and the controller sit, and says nothing on its own about the pit below the car or the headroom above it.
- The equipment is relocated, not reduced. A traction machine, its ropes or belts, a counterweight and a controller all still exist. They move into the shaft and onto a landing wall, which changes the space they demand rather than removing the demand.
- The gain is a room you keep. The footprint a traditional plant room would have taken stays inside the living space, and the lift stops being tied to the shape of a roof or a loft.
- Hydraulic designs relocate the machine differently. The cylinder works inside or beside the shaft, but the pump and tank still need a home at the lowest level.
- Checks come before quotations. Pit depth, headroom, shaft size, the landing the controller sits on, the supply and who travels in the car settle more of the outcome than the finish or the brand.
One thing stated plainly before the detail: the equipment discussed on this page is third-party supplier material and general market practice, not a description of this company's own product range. Where a figure cannot be verified for a specific unit, this page says so instead of repeating it as fact.
01 · What a machine room less lift removes, and what it only moves
It removes one room from the drawing. It does not remove the job that room was doing, and that is the fact most supplier pages leave out.
Why the plant room existed in the first place
The room came first, so it is worth remembering why it existed. In a conventional low-rise installation the traction machine sits in a plant room above the shaft, where a technician can stand beside it and replace a part without entering the shaft. The room holds the drive, the control cabinet and the clearance a person needs to service both — three jobs, not one.
A machine room less design keeps all three and moves them. The drive is mounted inside the shaft, usually on a beam across the top. The control cabinet moves to a landing wall, a cupboard or a recess. The access moves into the shaft and onto the landing. The honest description is therefore not “the machine is gone” but “the machine is now inside the space the lift already needs.”
That relocation is why the form spread from commercial buildings into houses. It also means the shaft carries more than a car: ropes or belts, a counterweight, a governor and travelling cables all live in a volume the buyer pictures as empty.
The conclusion in four lines
- One room disappears. The plant room above the shaft — the part of the plan that was hardest to place and least useful for anything else — is no longer required, and the floor area it would have taken stays in the house.
- Three things stay. A base or pit at the bottom, headroom above the top landing for the drive and the car's safety space, and an accessible position for a controller. Ask for all three as numbers.
- The form does not decide the mechanism. Traction and hydraulic drives both appear in machine room less designs, and each relocates its machinery to a different place. Decide the drive, then decide the room.
- Your house decides first. Pit, headroom, landing wall and structural route filter the shortlist more than the catalogue does. Establish those four facts before comparing quotations.
The three things a machine room less lift does not remove
The first is the bottom of the shaft: a traction car needs somewhere to arrive, and whether that is a shallow recess, a pit with a defined depth or a flat floor is a decision about your building. The second is the top, where the drive sits above the car and the car needs its own clearance above the highest landing, so the headroom figure is the sum of two requirements rather than one. The third is the controller, a cabinet with a display, terminals and an isolation point that has to live somewhere a competent person can reach and work on.
None of those is a defect. They are why a machine room less unit is a design exercise rather than an off-the-shelf purchase, and they are the items a survey should return as measurements. If a supplier answers “no machine room needed” and stops, ask the follow-up: where does the drive sit, what is above the top landing, and which wall takes the controller?
Why the distinction changes the quotation
Two houses can be offered the same unit at the same price and end up with different totals, because the work around the unit is not the same work. A position above a garage void needs less making good at the bottom than one above a finished room. A landing wall with a recess for a cabinet avoids joinery that a flush wall would need. A shaft that already runs to the roof behaves differently from one cut through a ceiling with a room above it.
This is also why a headline price describes a product rather than your house. The unit is one line of the total, and preparation, the supply, making good and servicing are discovered on site.
Five words that are not interchangeable
Machine room less describes where the drive sits. Pit less describes what happens at the bottom of the travel. Shaftless usually means the unit needs no masonry enclosure, not that it needs no space. MRL is the industry abbreviation for the first of those. Home lift is the market's word for the whole category.
A unit can be machine room less and still need a pit, or pit less and still need a plant space for a pump, or both and still need headroom and a landing wall. Ask which of the five applies, one at a time.
02 · Where the drive and the controller actually go
The clearest way to understand a machine room less home elevator is to draw the shaft and put the components back into it.
Every powered lift needs a source of motion and a way of controlling it. In a machine room less lift both sit inside the lift's own envelope: the drive at the top of the shaft or beside it, the controller in a cabinet reached from a landing. What differs between designs is which of the two gets the awkward position.
Schematic only: proportions and the choice between a top-mounted and a side-mounted machine differ between units. It shows what has to be provided for, not what any particular product looks like.
Traction: the machine rides at the top of the shaft
In a traction machine room less unit the drive is a compact gearless machine, fixed to a beam that spans the top of the shaft. Ropes or flat belts run down to the car and to a counterweight beside it. Because the machine sits in the shaft head, the headroom above the top landing has to accommodate the machine, its mounting and the car's own clearance. Firms selling traction home elevators generally describe this as the quieter arrangement and the one that suits taller travel. The trade-off is that the shaft head does more work than a car alone would ask of it.
So the question “how much headroom does it need?” has an answer, and the answer belongs to the specific unit rather than to the category. Ask for the figure with the machine included, and ask whether the structure above the top landing has to be modified to carry the machine's weight and its reaction forces.
Hydraulic: the cylinder is in the shaft, the pump is not
A hydraulic unit replaces ropes and a counterweight with a cylinder and a power unit, with the cylinder beside the car or under it. The car is pushed rather than pulled, which simplifies part of the shaft, and that is one reason hydraulic home elevators are common in low-rise houses.
The part that catches people out is the power unit: a pump, a motor and an oil tank that has to sit somewhere, usually beside the shaft at the lowest level with a defined hose route. That is not a machine room, and it is smaller, but it is equipment in a place your family may use every day. Anyone who read “machine room less” as “no plant anywhere” should ask where the power unit goes before signing anything.
The second hydraulic trade-off is acoustic. The position of the power unit relative to the bedrooms usually matters more than the sound level in a brochure, so if the only position available is behind a bedroom wall, raise it early.
What still has to be inside the shaft
Whatever the drive, a machine room less shaft is busier than buyers expect. A traction unit brings the machine, its ropes or belts, the counterweight, guide rails, a governor for the overspeed device, travelling cables for the car's controls and lighting, and the landing door mechanisms at every stop. A hydraulic unit brings the cylinder, guide rails, the travel cables and the same door hardware. In both cases the inside of the shaft is a working space for someone standing on a platform at some point in the unit's life.
This matters when a supplier offers to fit a unit into a space barely larger than the car. The car footprint is one dimension and the shaft is another, and the difference between them is the equipment plus the person who will one day need to reach it.
Machine room less (MRL)
A lift whose drive and controller are designed to sit within the shaft envelope and on a landing, so that no separate plant room above the shaft is required.
Shaft headroom
The clear height above the highest landing. It has to cover the drive, its mounting, and the car's own requirement above the top stop.
Pit
The recessed space at the bottom of the travel, below the lowest landing. Its depth is a property of the unit's design; a machine room less unit may still need one.
Controller
The cabinet holding the drive electronics, the safety circuit and the isolation point. In a machine room less design it is normally reached from a landing rather than a plant room.
Travel
The distance between the lowest and the highest landing the lift serves. It is the figure that most affects what the drive has to do, and it is measured, not estimated.
03 · Machine room less is not the same as pit less
These two phrases sit next to each other in almost every brochure and answer two completely different questions. Treating them as one idea is the most expensive misunderstanding in this market.
Machine room less is about where the drive lives. Pit less is about what happens beneath the lowest landing. A single product can be one, both or neither, and which applies to your house is a property of the unit and of your floor rather than of the phrase in the heading. Merging the two leads buyers to ask whether a unit is “machine room less” when the question they need answered is whether their ground floor can keep a flat finished surface.
The distinction has a practical cost. If a lift needs a recess and the position sits over a finished room, someone has to decide whether the ceiling below can be lowered, whether the unit can be changed, or whether the lift belongs somewhere else. Every one of those decisions is cheaper before a quotation than after an order.
What “machine room less” settles
- No plant room above the shaft, so the floor area that room would have taken stays usable.
- The drive is inside the shaft head, which is why headroom above the top landing becomes a measured requirement.
- The controller moves to a landing wall, cupboard or recess, and needs a reachable position rather than a room.
- It says nothing about the bottom of the travel. A recess may still be required, and how deep it has to be belongs to the unit.
What “pit less” settles
- The lowest landing keeps a flat, walkable floor, which matters in a hall, a utility room or a converted garage.
- The unit's mechanism at the bottom is designed to work without a conventional recess — typically a low-profile cylinder, a different drive form, or a raised base.
- It says nothing about the top. Headroom for the drive and for the car's safety space is still required, and it is still a number.
- It also says nothing about plant: a pit less hydraulic unit still has a pump and tank somewhere.
The four combinations you can be standing in
Once the two axes are separated there are four situations. Answer the two questions below with the position you have in mind, and the reading names which constraint is likely to decide the shortlist.
Which constraint is likely to come first?
Two questions about the position you are considering. Nothing is sent anywhere; the answer appears below.
1. Below the lowest stop
2. Above the top stop
Both axes are open: compare the two drives on service, not on space
- Neither structural constraint is filtering your shortlist, so decide between the drives on sound, travel, service intervals and the position of the power unit.
- Ask each supplier for the headroom figure with the machine mounted, and for the base or recess detail at the bottom. Those two numbers are what your builder needs.
The shaft head is the constraint: headroom decides the unit
- If the height above the top landing cannot change, the unit's headroom requirement becomes the filter. Ask for it before you discuss finishes, because a unit that does not fit the shaft head is not a candidate at any price.
- A hydraulic drive with a side-mounted cylinder sometimes asks less of the shaft head, at the cost of a power unit at the lowest level. Check what the ceiling above the top landing contains — joists, a tank, ducting or a flat roof membrane decide whether headroom can be created at all.
The bottom is the constraint: start with pit less forms
- A finished floor that must stay level points to a unit designed to work without a conventional recess. That is a property of the mechanism, not of the machine room, so ask for it explicitly.
- Pit less arrangements carry their own requirement at the bottom: a low plinth, a defined clearance under the car, or a specific fixing. Ask what the floor is asked to do, rather than only whether a pit is avoided.
Both axes are constrained: this is a plan question, not a product question
- When the floor must stay level and the ceiling cannot give up height, the limits are architectural: either the position changes, the structure changes, or the brief changes.
- Ask a surveyor or installer which of the two can be relaxed and what it would take, and consider whether a different position in the same house opens both axes.
This reading reflects the two answers above only. It is not a quotation, a specification, or an approval for any installation.
The question that gets a useful answer
“Is it machine room less?” invites a yes. “What is the headroom requirement above my top landing, how much recess does the unit need at the bottom, and where does the controller go?” invites three numbers. Ask for the numbers, in writing, and the quotation stops being a marketing document.
Once the drive is inside the shaft and the plant room is gone, what exactly has the house gained — and does the gain survive contact with a real floor plan?
04 · What the house actually gains
The gain from a machine room less home elevator is real, but it is not a single number. It shows up in four places, and only one of them is measured in square metres.
Supplier pages usually lead with space, because space is easy to draw. The more useful question is what the house would otherwise have had to give up: floor area, a particular position, structural work, or the sense that the building is easier to live in.
Gain 01
The plant room's footprint stays inside the house
A traditional plant room above the shaft takes floor area at the top of the building, usually in the least convenient place: above a stairwell, in a loft, or off a rear extension. Removing that requirement returns the area to living space or storage, and removes a room too hot in summer to use for anything else.
Gain 02
Positions become possible that were not before
When the lift no longer depends on a room above the shaft the shortlist of positions widens. Published supplier material names living rooms, bedrooms and even converted wardrobes as places where a compact unit has been fitted, so the lift can go where the household needs it rather than where the roof allows it.
Gain 03
One category of building work drops out
A plant room is more than a room: it is structure to carry a machine, access to reach it, ventilation, and a weather detail where it meets the roof. Removing the requirement removes that chain from the job, which is why a machine room less installation can be cleaner to plan even where the unit costs more.
Gain 04
The installation is smaller and shorter
Because the machine arrives with the shaft package, the on-site phase is compressed. Published figures quote installation measured in days rather than weeks, and the work that remains around it is work a normal builder can sequence rather than a plant room project on its own.
The area you actually get back
It is tempting to convert the gain into square metres and stop there. The honest version is that the area freed depends on the unit that would otherwise have been chosen, and the value of that area often exceeds its size. A plant room sits above the shaft and inherits the geometry of the roof, while the same square metres inside a floor plate are simply easier to use.
There is a second-order gain buyers rarely notice until the survey. Without a plant room the lift is no longer tied to the part of the plan that can support one, so a position in the middle of the house can become viable at all.
Positions that become possible, and the price of each
The flexibility is real but not free, and it is worth naming what each position asks for. A wall position keeps the unit out of the front room but may put the controller in a hallway. A bedroom position is convenient for the user and audible to the person sleeping beside them. A converted cupboard uses dead space well and leaves the shaft very little room for the equipment serviced inside it.
The pattern is consistent: the more elegant the position, the more tightly the shaft has to be designed and the more important the headroom and service-access figures become. A generous position tolerates a standard unit; a clever position needs a unit whose numbers have been checked against the drawing before anything is ordered.
What buyers and valuers read as value
Step-free access within a home is increasingly read as a functional improvement rather than equipment installed for one person. That is not a promise about resale value: values respond to the market, the location and the condition of the house, and no single fitting guarantees a figure. What can be said is that a permanent change removing a daily obstacle is a different proposition from a temporary device.
The counterweight to that is serviceability, which the next two sections deal with: what the unit does for safety, and what it asks of you every year after the installation.
05 · The five safety functions to ask about
Safety in a home lift is not one feature. It is five functions working together, and a demonstration should let you see four of them with your own hands.
Published material for machine room less units names the same five protections. Knowing what each does turns a demonstration into a test, because you can watch the behaviour instead of reading about it.
Five functions to see or be shown before you order
The two you can test yourself
Constant pressure operation and obstruction detection can both be verified in a showroom within a minute, and they are worth testing because they are the two a hurried handover tends to describe rather than demonstrate. Releasing the control mid-travel should stop the car and hold it; an object in the doorway should produce a stop and a reversal. Then ask what happens if the control is released halfway between floors, and who is allowed to recover the car. The answer should be a procedure, not a shrug.
The two that depend on where the car is
Door interlocks and obstruction sensors behave differently depending on the car's position, so check them at the top, at the bottom and in between. A landing door that opens easily with the car two floors away is a serious fault, and a sensor that works at the bottom landing but not the top is a common installation weakness.
Ask too how the interlock is maintained: a door adjusted once and never revisited can drift, which is a reason to have the door mechanism named explicitly in the annual service rather than assumed within it.
The one that only matters in a power cut
Back-up behaviour is the function nobody sees until it is needed, and the answers differ. Some models lower the car to the nearest landing, some hold it until power returns, and some provide a manual release operated by a competent person with a documented tool. All three can be acceptable, but they are not interchangeable where a person with limited mobility may be travelling alone.
Ask what the person in the car is expected to do while they wait, and combine that with the communication device. A single power failure then has a known shape, which is more useful than a count of safety features in a brochure.
06 · Noise, service and the maintenance year
Two questions decide how a lift feels after the novelty wears off: what it sounds like, and what it asks of you once a year.
Published material for these units describes noise-reduction design as a feature, and it is a real one. The more useful question for a household is where the sound will come from in your house, because the answer differs between a traction machine in the shaft head and a hydraulic power unit in an adjacent space.
What actually changes the noise
A traction machine is generally described as the quieter of the two drives, and because it sits at the top of the shaft its sound arrives through the structure above the top landing. A hydraulic unit is generally described as more affordable and slightly louder, with the sound coming from the power unit at the lowest level. Neither description tells you what your house will sound like, because the transmission path runs through the structure: the same machine over a landing and over a bedroom are different propositions.
Settle it with a demonstration on a site of similar construction, listening from the room where the sound would matter with the doors closed. If that is not possible, ask where the drive and the power unit will sit relative to the bedrooms. Ask too what isolation is fitted between the machine and the structure: isolation is cheap before the unit is fixed and expensive afterwards.
| Item | What the visit normally covers | Why it matters at home | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine and driveMoving parts | Inspection of the drive, its mountings, ropes or belts where fitted, and the parts that wear. | Wear is progressive and quiet, so a rope or belt check is the difference between a planned replacement and an unplanned stop. | Whether rope, belt or cylinder replacement is inside the service contract or quoted separately. |
| LubricationMoving surfaces | Oil and grease applied to the guide rails and other moving surfaces on the unit's schedule. | This is what keeps travel smooth and quiet, and it is the first item to disappear from a cut-price service. | Which parts are lubricated, and how the technician records that it was done. |
| Inspection and cleaningCar and shaft | Inspection and cleaning of the car and of the space it travels through. | Debris in a shaft becomes noise and then wear, and dust finds the door tracks first. | Whether cleaning the shaft is included at every visit or only on request. |
| Safety functionsThe five in section 5 | Verification of obstruction detection, the interlocks, the overspeed device and the emergency arrangements. | These matter only on the day they are needed, and verification is what keeps them in working order. | That the results are recorded and left with you rather than noted internally. |
| Worn partsConsumables | Replacement of the worn parts identified during the visit. | At home the practical question is who carries a spare, and how long a household waits with the lift out of use. | Response time, the local stock position, and what happens while a part is on order. |
| IntervalHow often | Published material for these units typically describes one professional service a year as the normal arrangement. | One visit a year is a maintenance claim rather than a guarantee; how hard the lift works and where it sits both affect it. | Whether the promised interval is a maximum or an average, and what triggers an extra visit. |
Items and intervals above follow the general published description of annual servicing for this class of unit. The actual schedule belongs to the model offered, and the contract should say so in writing.
What one annual visit should leave behind
A service visit has two outputs: the work itself, and a record of what was checked and what will need attention before the next visit. Households that keep those sheets have a history of the unit, which is what a buyer, an insurer or a new technician will ask for. Ask who owns that record: paperwork that stays with the supplier is convenient until you change supplier, sell the house or make a claim.
07 · Seven checks before you compare suppliers
Most of the important checks are cheap to make and expensive to skip. Run them in this order, because two of them can remove a candidate before any figure is discussed.
The list is ordered by consequence rather than convenience: the first two decide which products are candidates at all, and the last three decide how large the final number is likely to be.
Seven checks, in the order that saves the most time
The two checks that can remove a candidate immediately
Dimensions and load come first in practice, because they decide whether the unit can do the job the household needs rather than the job the catalogue describes. A car sized for one standing passenger may fit the shaft and fail the family, since the person who needs the lift most is often the one who needs a companion or a walking frame beside them.
Drive type does the same job on the building side. Once you know where the drive sits and what the unit needs at the bottom and the top, your floor plan alone may rule one of the two common drives out. That is a fact about the house rather than a preference about brands, and it is why this check sits above anything about cost.
The three checks that move the total
Structure, competence and contract decide how much of the work falls to you after the unit arrives. A quotation that excludes making good, or leaves the electrical supply to the household, has not quoted a smaller job; it has quoted a smaller share of the job. The same applies to the sign-off, where the identity of the competent person should be settled before work starts.
Where a figure cannot be given until a survey is done, ask for it as a range with the assumptions named: which floor, which position, which access route, which supply. A range with named assumptions can be compared between suppliers; a single number without assumptions cannot.
Which question should you settle first?
Three questions about your own situation, answered from what you already know. The reading names the point to settle before you ask anyone for a figure.
1. How would you describe the position you have in mind?
2. Has anyone measured the floor, ceiling and route?
3. Whose requirements have to be met on every journey?
Start with the position, then take measurements
08 · What the installation window covers
Published material for machine room less units quotes an installation measured in days, typically three to five. Those days are real, and they describe one phase of the project rather than the whole of it.
The window is the part of the job that happens on site with the equipment present. Everything that makes those days short — the survey, the structural preparation, the drawing agreed between household and installer — happens before it, and everything that makes the result look finished happens around it.
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Step 01
Site evaluation and measurement
The visit that turns your position into numbers: floor-to-floor travel, clear opening at every landing, available shaft footprint, headroom above the top stop, what lies under the position, and the route the unit takes from the street door. Ask for the figures in writing, because they become the assumptions in every quotation you compare.
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Step 02
Structural preparation
The work your builder does before the unit arrives: any opening in the floor, the base or recess at the bottom, the fixing points at each landing, and the reinforcement the mounting requires. This step decides the calendar, and it is where a late change costs the most.
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Step 03
Assembly on site
Shaft structure, guide rails, drive, car, doors and the controller cabinet are assembled and made safe. On a home installation this is the loudest phase, and the one worth flagging in advance if someone works from home or sleeps during the day.
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Step 04
Testing and calibration
Travel is set, levelling adjusted, and the safety functions tested: obstruction sensors, interlocks, the overspeed device and the emergency arrangements. This is where the demonstration in section 5 stops being a brochure claim and becomes an observed behaviour.
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Step 05
Final inspection and handover
The completion check, the documentation, instruction on everyday use and on what to do if something stops, and the start of the service arrangement. Ask what arrives in writing at this point: a handover that is only a demonstration leaves the household without a record.
Days on site, weeks in the house
The three-to-five-day figure describes the installer's presence, and it is worth reading it that way. Expect the position to be protected and partly unusable for longer: before the installation for any opening or base, and after it for making good and decoration. A machine room less design shortens the first phase by removing the plant room; it does not remove the making good around the shaft, the landings or the cabinet. That makes sequencing a written question: if two rooms share the position, or the lift passes through a ceiling that must be redecorated, decide who does that work while the household is still planning.
Five things to settle before day one
Four belong to you and your builder: the electrical supply with its isolation point agreed, protection of floors and stairs along the route, the access times the installer is given, and who will be at home to make decisions. The fifth belongs to the supplier: the exact unit, its headroom and recess figures, the controller position, and written confirmation that these match the survey.
When those five are settled the window tends to hold. When one is left open the days stretch, and the reason is almost never the equipment.
09 · Questions buyers ask
The same handful of questions arrives in every enquiry. Read the answers as a preview of the conversation rather than as a specification, and ask the supplier to put the numbers in writing.
An elevator whose drive and control equipment are designed to sit inside the shaft and on a landing, so no separate plant room above the shaft is required. The machinery has moved rather than disappeared, which is why headroom, a base or pit, and a wall for the controller cabinet remain part of the design.
Three are worth knowing. The shaft head has to accommodate the drive as well as the car. Servicing happens inside the shaft and from the landing rather than from a room, which makes access dimensions a design input. And on a hydraulic machine room less unit the pump and tank still need a position at the lowest level.
The equipment can cost more than a conventional arrangement and the building work can cost less, because a plant room is structure, access, ventilation and a roof detail in one. The two effects are compared per house rather than per product, which is why no responsible answer to this question is a number.
Consumer guidance published in search results commonly quotes a cabin footprint of roughly seven to twenty-five square feet for this class of unit. Treat that as the unit alone: the shaft, the clear area in front of each landing, technician access and the controller position all add to it.
It can. Machine room less and pit less are separate properties, and a unit can require a defined recess at the bottom while needing no plant room at the top. Where the position sits over a finished room, settle the bottom requirement first, because it is the item most likely to change the work done to your floor.
Published material for these units describes one professional service a year as the normal arrangement, covering lubrication, inspection, cleaning, verification of the safety functions and replacement of worn parts. Confirm the schedule for your model, and confirm that the record of each visit is left with you.
Often, but the answer depends on three measurements rather than on the product: headroom above the top landing, what is available at the bottom of the travel, and where the controller can go. A house with a generous shaft head and a usable recess is a different project from one where the ceiling cannot change.
10 · What to settle before you ask for a figure
A quotation is only as good as the facts it was built on. These are the items to have ready, and the ones every supplier will ask for in the first conversation.
Work through the list below and print or copy it. A supplier who receives these eight answers can give you something comparable; a supplier who receives none will give you a range describing a product rather than your house.
Pre-survey checklist: what to have ready
What happens after you send the facts
The next step is a survey that returns numbers, and then a quotation you can compare line by line: the unit, the preparation, the installation and handover, and the service arrangement. If you want a starting point for the residential categories available, the product overview sets them out, and the testing and control page describes how units are checked before dispatch.
The habit that changes the outcome more than any other is asking for measurements instead of descriptions. Headroom above the top landing, the requirement at the bottom of the travel, the controller position and the clear access a technician will need: four numbers, asked in that order, tell you more than any brochure.
Send the four measurements and the position you are considering.
Tell us the floors to be served, who will use the lift, the space the house can spare, and what is above the top landing. We will come back with which form to compare and which questions the survey still has to answer.
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