Is an Air Powered Home Elevator Right for You?

Do you struggle everyday to climb the stairs? It is more common than not for a two story home to have the bedrooms on the top floor and the rest of the living space on the bottom. This layout can be detrimental to senior citizens and others with mobility issues. If you are dealing with this predicament and have begun to avoid going upstairs to your bedroom, even going so far as to sleep on the couch in living room at night instead of your own bed, you are not alone. However bad it may seem now, it doesn’t need to be this way for much longer. That is because after reaching out to a local home elevators manufacturer, you can learn more about your best option for mobility in between floors: an air driven residential elevator.

Before you think this can’t possibly be right for you, wait! The development of pneumatic vacuum elevators (PVE) means that a home elevator is not nearly as expensive as you may think. Put your worry about the price aside for a moment and instead, consider the following:

1. Do you worry you may fall down the stairs one day? Never put your healthy and safety at risk. If you worry you may fall, give yourself a solution and fix the problem before it actually happens.
2. Do you have a medical condition that makes your mobility a challenge? If so, your medical insurance or homeowners insurance may cover a portion of your elevator. This is great news to those who really need an elevator and are worried about the cost.
3. Is someone in your home wheelchair bound? While there are very small PVE models, there is also a model that can fit someone in a wheelchair as well as a caretaker or other person standing next to them as well. Now, those in a wheelchair can enjoy the full square footage of a two-story home!

You will notice that none of the questions are "Do you have a lot of money?" or "Is your home big?" That is because a home elevators manufacturer can install a PVE in your home for very little money, and it will take up very little space. In fact, the world’s smallest elevator is the PVE 30 and it has an exterior diameter of 30 inches. That is just under three feet wide, small enough for even a very modest-sized home.