If you’re like many Arrow Lift clients, you’re looking for safer, easier ways to move yourself or your belongings throughout your home. Whether it’s groceries, laundry, or storage bins, getting items between floors can often be a hassle, or even a safety risk.

So what are your options? 

You may be familiar with stair lifts (the seat that travels along your stairs) or residential elevators. But there’s another option worth considering: the in-home dumbwaiter.

A dumbwaiter, also sometimes called a “dummy waiter,” is a compact, motorized lift that moves items—never people or pets—between floors. Below, we walk through the top five pros and cons to help you decide if a residential dumbwaiter is right for your home.

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If you’ve ever sized up a pile of items and thought, “I can handle that in one trip,” only to realize halfway up the stairs that you’ve made a mistake, you already know the value of a dumbwaiter! Dumbwaiters are an ideal solution for transporting materials between multiple stories of a home or building. 

But what is a dumbwaiter, anyway? Functioning like a mini elevator that does not hold people or pets, dumbwaiters — also known as dummy waiters or dumbwaiter lifts — are miniature freight lifts that travel up and down a shaft to move items from one floor to another. 

Dumbwaiters come with a small footprint that has a big impact on both residential and commercial efficiency.

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