Stair lifts are a cost-effective, easy-to-operate, and construction-free way of gaining mobility and independence throughout your home. If you are researching stair lift costs for yourself or a family member, it can be frustrating not to find an exact price online. Additionally, many resources end up over-simplifying the shopping process for stair lifts, creating unrealistic expectations and delaying the significant improvement a stair lift can make to one’s life.

While typically you can find pretty accurate pricing for, say, a car or home online, determining stair lift costs requires answering more than a dozen questions about the unique circumstances of the home, staircase, and stair lift user. On top of that, your answers to these questions may still lack the insight of a professional evaluator, causing you extra headaches and unforeseen costs.