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Home lifts investment option Since 2014, home owners interested in having a lift system installed in their home have another company offering options tailor-made to their unique circumstances. The Lift Company has its New Zealand headquarter in Pakuranga, a show room in East Tamaki and a sales division in Tauranga. Gareth Newton, company co-director, says the growing interest in the range of customised lift technologies the company offers is a valuable point of difference for consumers.
• Individually customised hydraulic and electric elevators • Quality European manufacturing • Easy and cost effective installation • Building consent support • All-inclusive competitive pricing
We can install a lift into any space!
Suite 4, ANZ House, 10 Aylesbury Street Pakuranga | 09 972 1863 | sales@theliftco.co.nz www.theliftco.co.nz
“We source our lift componentry options from Spain and each lift is built to individual specifications from the wide range of structural and aesthetic elements that can be chosen to personalise the lift to each unique home situation,” Gareth says. While residential lifts have been common features in homes in Australia, it is only in the last couple of years that the New Zealand market has begun to gain traction and Gareth says there are several reasons for this. “With the building boom we’re seeing and smaller pockets of land available more and more homes are going up rather than out. But there are other reasons these days why interest in having a lift in your home is growing, he says. “There is a growing group of home owners who see installing a lift as a real investment option, either enabling them to stay in their home through their elderly years or adding value to the resale of the property. What surprises many of them when they look at our customised approach is that it doesn’t impact negatively on the price to get exactly what you want.” The intergenerational nature of households with elderly parents living with their family
rather than in a rest-home situation is another market. Fellow director Lee Eagle focuses on managing installation and marketing, while Gareth’s electrical engineering background comes in to play with the design engineering processes. Positive comments about the aesthetic qualities of the many options available were received when the The Lift Company exhibited at the Auckland Show Home with a heartening number of clients placing orders. “One of the great things about how our lifts operate is that they don’t impact greatly on the homes structure. “Usually just some extra timber is all that is needed and all our lifts are designed to fit in to the standard 2.4m stud. “There is no need to dig out a large pit either.”Gareth says that safety is the company’s number one priority. Every lift has a back-up battery which, in the event of an electrical outage occurring, will carry the lift to the ground or first floor and open the door. All lifts come with a phone and all brakes have automatic locking systems. “There are extensive fail-safe systems throughout. For instance, if the door is not closed completely the lift will not move.” A key focus Gareth says is honing the lifts internal processes with a shift toward greener motor technologies providing further savings with lift running costs. “As it is our lifts don’t use much power.” The company has a network of installers around the country. Whenever a lift is installed it is checked over twice before an independent qualified inspector signs it off.
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