The different type of lift options which are available to you
1. Passenger Lifts
These are the obvious type of lifts which most of us are familiar with in our day-to-day lives. Capacities can vary widely from 4 or 5 people to quite big numbers in larger corporate spaces. They are a legal requirement in all public buildings with more than one floor but they are also worth the investment. If you have a block of flats to rent out, or are currently conceptualising a new office space, a plush and comfortable lift could make all the difference; a contented workforce or tenant-cohort is only going to make your life easier and, whilst lifts are clearly a fairly big expenditure, you will be genuinely surprised at how much it actually costs; prices don’t have to shoot through the roof.
2. Freight Lifts / Service Lifts
Another one which is fairly obvious, and will be familiar to all those of you who have worked in warehouses or in retail. Staying with the latter for a moment, in a retail department store for example, a goods lift can perform a double duty, serving as a passenger lift as well. This is good news as it means you won’t need to install two separate lifts to carry goods and passengers; you can do it all in one which, importantly, will help save money. Goods lifts can be useful for all types of businesses, even those which you may not first consider; a pub, for example, could make good use of one for transporting heavy barrels. When considering the purchase of a goods lift you need to decide if it will also be used for carrying passengers as this will affect the weight capacity which is required.
3. Goods Lifts
Similar to goods lifts, often used in the hotel and hospitality trade. They can hold weights of up to 5000kg’s (if they are manufactured to certain standards) and thus can take the strain out of necessary daily tasks such as a hotel laundry service. They have also been known to be employed in offices where a lot of heavy boxes of paperwork need to be moved around quickly, although this use is somewhat rarer.
4. Dumbwaiters
Dumbwaiters are small freight lifts not intended to carry people or live animals, but objects. Dumbwaiters found within modern structures, including both commercial and private buildings, are often connected between two floors, and often used in restaurants or in private homes.
5. Bed Lifts / Hospital Elevators
Bed Lift or Hospital elevator is not only used to convey the passengers. It has been put with
the special and strict requirements such as slow speed to prevent the patients affect when
the lift is running.
6. Home Lift / Disable Lifts / Through Floor Lifts
Very similar to Vertical Platform lifts, they allow passengers to move swiftly through floors for easy access; they can be attached to load bearing walls and are less ostentatious than a full passenger lift.