Tell us what you are doing and we will come back with a budget range for replacing, modernising or installing your lift. We do not sell lifts, take commission or publish prices we cannot stand behind, so the number you get is the number we think it costs.
Indicative only. This gives you a range wide enough to be honest. It is for early budgeting, capital planning and sanity-checking a number somebody has given you. It is not a quotation, an estimate for tender, or a basis for a contract.
What a lift actually costs depends on the shaft you already have, the state of the building, when the work can happen, and what the market is doing that quarter. Those are the things a scope and a tender settle. This gets you close enough to start the conversation.
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We do not publish lift prices on this website, and there is a reason for that. A number without a scope behind it is the thing that gets built into a budget, quoted back in a tender, and then found to be wrong. We would rather look at what you have entered and give you a range we will stand behind.
Send the details above and we will come back with a budget range for your building, what is likely to sit outside the lift contract, and what would move the number either way. Usually the same day. It costs nothing and there is nothing to sign.
What a lift contract will not include
These are the costs that catch owners out. Every one of them is real on a real job, and every one of them sits outside the lift contract more often than not. We will tell you which ones apply to your building.
- Builders work: shaft construction, pit, machine space, penetrations, making good, painting
- Structural work, including machine beams and shaft strengthening
- Fire rating, acoustic treatment, waterproofing and shaft ventilation
- Power supply to the lift controller, and the switchboard work behind it
- Lobby finishes, signage and any architectural work outside the car
- Temporary works, hoarding, cranage and site establishment beyond the lift contractor own
- Hazardous materials survey and removal
- Escalation beyond the current quarter, and currency movement on imported equipment
- Consultant, project management and certification fees
- GST
On a typical apartment building replacement, the items above commonly add another 15 to 30 per cent on top of the lift contract. On a health-care or heritage building it can be a great deal more.
Why the range will be wide
Any honest answer at this stage is a range, and the spread is the width of the question rather than vagueness on our part. Use the top of it for a capital plan, because underfunding a lift replacement is the more expensive mistake. Use the middle when you are testing whether a proposal is roughly sane. Do not use the bottom for anything.
If somebody has quoted you a number well below the bottom of this range, that is worth understanding rather than celebrating. The usual explanations are a narrower scope than you think, exclusions doing heavy lifting in the fine print, or a program that assumes access you cannot actually give them.
If a number sits well above the top, the usual explanations are genuine building constraints, a difficult program, or a specification written around one manufacturer.