Terry Lifts Review: UK Prices, Through-Floor & Platform Lifts (2026)

Terry Lifts: Company Overview

Terry Lifts is a British manufacturer based in Knutsford, Cheshire, with more than 70 years of trading behind it. It builds its home lifts in the UK rather than importing them, which puts it in a small group alongside Wessex and parts of the Companion range.

Every Terry home lift is hydraulic and travels between two floors only, up to 3.6m. None needs a structural shaft. That is a deliberately narrow product strategy: Terry is not trying to sell you a six-storey cabin lift, it is trying to get one person safely between a ground floor and a first floor in an ordinary house.

One point of confusion worth clearing up. The Terry Melody is frequently listed as a Terry home lift on comparison sites. It is not – it is a platform lift. The home lift range is the Harmony, Harmony FE, Lifestyle and Affinity.

Terry Lifts Home Lift Range (2026)

• Harmony – the core through-floor lift, from 920 x 1265mm up to 1055 x 1465mm, carrying 250 to 280kg. Wheelchair rated.
• Harmony FE – the enclosed variant, and the strongest lift Terry builds at 325kg. That is a meaningful margin over the 250kg that most of the UK market offers, and it is the reason the FE appears in wheelchair-plus-attendant specifications.
• Lifestyle – a compact two-person lift with the smallest footprint in the range at 1142 x 733mm. Terry publishes a 0.15 m/s speed for it, two and a half times every other Terry model, which we have not been able to corroborate anywhere else.
• Affinity – a two-person lift with a remote power unit, running from a 240V 13A fused spur and needing no pit. Terry does not rate it for wheelchair use.

Terry Lifts Prices in 2026

Terry publishes no price for any model. Not a starting figure, not a band, not a from-price. Its website offers “a free, no obligation survey of your home so you can obtain a comprehensive quote”, and the Disabled Living Foundation database lists the Harmony as “Priced from POA”. Terry is one of only two brands in our tracker – Wessex is the other – publishing nothing at all.

That leaves third-party figures. The trades directory MyBuilder gives Terry a band of £10,000 to £30,000, without stating whether VAT is included. Across the market we see Terry through-floor installations landing between £14,000 and £22,000 fully installed, with the Harmony FE at the upper end.

Because no manufacturer figure exists, treat every Terry price you are shown as a dealer quotation rather than a list price, and ask explicitly whether it includes VAT. See how VAT works on a home lift and our full price tracker for every published UK figure with its source.

Terry is unusual in the second-hand market too. Used Harmony units change hands at £3,000 to £3,500, and Terry Group runs its own reconditioned arm, which makes a refurbished Terry one of the more realistic budget routes into a through-floor lift.

Buying a Terry Lift: What to Check

Two floors is the ceiling. Every Terry home lift stops at two floors and 3.6m of travel. If you need to serve a second floor or a converted loft, Terry has no product for you and no amount of specifying will change that.

Check the wheelchair rating model by model. The Harmony and Harmony FE are rated for wheelchair use; the Affinity is not, and Terry publishes nothing either way for the Lifestyle. This is the single most common mis-specification on a Terry quote.

Ask about the pit. Terry publishes a pit requirement only for the Affinity, where the answer is that none is needed. For the Harmony, Harmony FE and Lifestyle it publishes nothing, so get it in writing before the survey turns into building work.

Terry Lifts Pros and Cons

Advantages

• UK manufacturer with over 70 years of trading and a directly supported service network
• The Harmony FE carries 325kg, the highest load in the UK domestic through-floor market
• No structural shaft required on any model
• The Lifestyle has the smallest footprint of any Terry lift at 1142 x 733mm
• Its own reconditioned arm makes a cheaper used route a real option

Disadvantages

• Publishes no price for any model, so there is no list price to negotiate against
• Two floors and 3.6m of travel is the hard limit across the whole range
• No pit requirement published for three of the four models
• No noise figure published for any model
• The Affinity is not wheelchair rated, which is easy to miss

Our Verdict on Terry Lifts

Terry is a sound, unglamorous choice for the job it is built for: moving one person, or one wheelchair user, between two floors of a British house. The Harmony FE’s 325kg capacity is a genuine engineering advantage that no competitor matches, and buying from a UK manufacturer with seven decades behind it is worth something when you are relying on a service visit in year eight.

The frustration is the pricing. A brand that will not publish a single figure forces you to run a survey before you know whether it is affordable, and that is a real cost in time. Go to Terry when you need load capacity or a UK-built lift with a strong second-hand market; go elsewhere if you need more than two floors, or if you want to compare prices before you let a salesperson into the house.

Reviewed August 2026. Independent review – UK Homelifts is not affiliated with Terry Lifts.