Symmetry offers several steel framed glass cars as an available option for your home elevator, adding functionality as well as style to your home.
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Commercial Platform & Wheelchair Lifts
Whether you are constructing a new building or modifying an existing building, a commercial wheelchair lift may be the perfect solution to overcome architectural barriers and elevation changes. Commercial wheelchair lifts provide the ability to overcome elevation changes in the existing environment. Capable of traveling up to 14 feet vertically, wheelchair lifts, are designed to provide ease of access for people with mobility-impairments, while occupying a small footprint.
Read MoreHome Elevator Interior Design
The elevator car is the most customizable portion of a residential elevator. This component of the elevator will set the tone of the entire project, and justly so, will affect the home elevator cost. So where should you start with the interior design of your home elevator? There are items that every elevator car will have, and most of them can be customized. So let’s explore the components of the car and what can be done with them.
Read MoreElevator Evacuation Plan & Emergency Preparation
Residential elevators are comprised of 3 primary functional elements; the car, rail structure and the drive system.
The car is the most visible portion of the home elevator. It can be made in a variety of sizes and configurations and there are a number of ways that you can customize your home elevator car to match the décor of your home. The elevator car is the piece that transports passengers from landing to landing.
Accessibility in Schools: Options to Improve Accessibility
Inclusion within an educational environment goes beyond the rights protected by the ADA. Educational facilities are required to provide equal access to those with mobility impairments. Providing an accessible route and accessible means of egress is important to a safe and accessible administration of education.
Read MoreHome Elevator Cars with Windows
Symmetry home elevator cars are available with windows. Adding a window to your elevator allows a scenic view when your hoistway has a glass wall, windows or even a painted mural.
Read MoreHow Much Does a Home Elevator Cost?
When estimating your home elevator cost, there are a number of factors to consider and cost can vary significantly based on choices and customizations you make along the way. A search on the internet can provide costs anywhere from $18,000 to $100,000, so how are you to even begin to understand what your home elevator might cost?
Read MoreHome Elevator Plans: Entering and Exiting the Elevator
When planning a home elevator installation, one of the most important design concepts is the entry and exit points of the elevator. We refer to this as the configuration. The configuration is determined by a couple of basic details: where will the rail structure be located, and how will you get in and out of the elevator?
Read MoreVertical Platform Lift Flip-Up Ramps
Flip-up ramps can be used to access openings which are perpendicular to the tower on straight-through and 90◦ applications, and are available on all unenclosed lifts.
Read MoreEntrance Doors for Vertical Platform Lifts
One of the most critical aspects of a vertical platform lift (VPL) shaft is the entrance. With the safety of the rider being of the utmost importance, the entrance door is required by code to be flush to the interior of the shaft.
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