Stairlift Reviews

The most accident prone part of a house is the stairs. Many household injuries sustained by people of different ages from toddlers to teen-agers to seniors are sustained as a result of falls from the stairs of their house. Installing a battery powered stair lift in your home will not only benefit the elderly members of your family, but everybody for that matter. It greatly improves accessibility to different floors in your house while decreasing the physical movement needed to do it. It decreases the possibility of slipping or tripping over obstacles on the stairs that may result to sprains and fractures and costly hospitalization.

Early stair lift models were powered by electric motors that were plugged into household mains. While these early devices made it convenient to navigate the stairs, they posed additional hazards in the house because somebody tripping on the trailing power cable increased the risk of falls and possible electrical shock to the stair lift rider or other members of the family. Moreover, in the event of a power failure in the neighborhood, the stair lift would be immobilized and the physically handicapped or elderly rider would be stranded in the middle of the stairs.

Breakthroughs in battery technology that resulted in the commercial manufacture of more compact yet longer lasting batteries ushered the entry into the market of battery powered stair lift models. These home accessibility devices run on more efficient whisper quiet DC motors with rack and pinion drives that give a smooth ride. With the “soft start and stop” technology of these new battery powered stair lift models, the rider would hardly notice that the lift is in motion. The most important feature of a battery powered stair lift is its capability to operate even during power outages due to hurricanes and other calamitous events where there is the pressing need to evacuate the neighborhood.

Major home accessibility manufacturers offer a complete line of battery powered stair lift models for commercial and residential use. With these new electrically operated stair lifts, the handicapped and elderly are able to regain their entire home by allowing them to go up and down the stairs of their home effortlessly, safely and comfortably. Recharging the batteries of these stair lifts can be done via static charging points located at both ends of the track or through flexible charging points that are located at any point between the two ends of the track.

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