Customize your home elevator

When planning your residential lift, an essential item to consider is the entranceway. The doors and gates not only ensure passenger safety but also establish an aesthetic link with your home’s interior.

When selecting doors and gates for your home lift, multiple factors should be considered. Two types of lift doors should be incorporated into all residential lifts: the car door and the landing door.

The landing door can be either a swing door, which resembles the typical hallway door in your house, or a two or three-speed door. A swing door is designed to match the other doors in your home. Swing doors can be fire-rated or non-rated, aligning with local business codes. Fire-rated doors can be steel or wood swinging panel in a metal doorjamb. The non-rated door is typically a wood jamb with wood swinging panel. Some manufacturers offer a non-rated wood doorjamb with a swinging door panel provided to match the room décor. Two or three-speed automatic doors are similar in style to commercial lifts.

Accordion sliding doors are collapsible lift car gates. Accordion doors must be closed before the lift operates and can be either manually or automatically opened. Regular swing doors are installed on each lift landing, while the accordion door collapses into a pocket of the lift car when opened. This allows you to match landing doors to your home decor. All landing doors have a locking device to ensure the lift will not operate when the doors are open and to make sure landing doors cannot be opened when the lift is not at the landing.