UK Homelifts price research / September 2026
Of the 27 UK home lift models in our specification database, ten can serve three floors or more — and every one of them is a shaft or platform lift. Not a single through-floor home lift sold in the UK does three storeys. That is why the price jumps the way it does, and almost no price guide says it.
The short answer. A two-storey home lift starts at about £13,000 installed. Going to three floors is not a percentage uplift on that number — it moves you into a different product category. The cheapest three-stop lift with a published price is a Cibes A4000 shaft lift at from £18,000, and shaft lifts carry a shaft build the through-floor lifts do not need. Realistic three-floor budgets run £25,000 to £45,000; four floors, £35,000 to £55,000.
Only four of 95 published UK prices say how many floors they cover
We hold 95 published home lift prices from 34 UK publishers in our price tracker. Four of them state the number of floors the price applies to. Those four are the entire published evidence base in this country for “what does a three-storey home lift cost”.
| Figure as published | Floors it covers | Who published it | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| £13,995 to £16,000 | Ground to first floor | Pollock Homelifts — source | Installed, including basic preparatory work |
| approx £20,000 starting, range £15,000–£45,000 | Two floors | Cibes — source, published 20 Jul 2026 | Not stated |
| £21,000 upwards | Up to five floors | Pollock Homelifts — source | Lift only, plus building work |
| £22,000 (published as “£22.000”, and as “€22.000” on another page) | Two floors, smallest model | Aritco — source | “standard fitting”, scope not defined |
Captured 20 August 2026, re-checked 3 September 2026. The other 91 published prices state no floor count at all.
Read the Pollock rows together. The same installer publishes £13,995 to £16,000 for a ground-to-first lift including basic preparatory work, and £21,000 upwards for a lift serving up to five floors excluding building work. That is the clearest published statement in the UK market of what the extra floors cost: a different machine, a bigger number, and a build scope that is now yours to price separately.
No UK through-floor lift goes to three floors
This is the fact that changes the whole question, and we could only establish it by cataloguing the published specifications of every model on sale. Here is what the manufacturers publish about stops and travel.
| Model | Type | Stops published | Maximum travel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiltz Duo+ / Duo+ Thru-Car | Through-floor | 2 | 4.5 m |
| Stiltz Trio+ | Through-floor | 2 | 6.0 m (4.5 m standard) |
| Lifton DUO / TRIO | Through-floor | 2 | 4.5 m (German datasheet only) |
| Terry Harmony, Harmony FE, Lifestyle, Affinity | Through-floor | 2 | 3.6 m |
| Stannah (Uplifts) S2 / S3 | Through-floor | 2 | Not published |
| Wessex VM / VE | Through-floor | 2 (optional mid-floor stop) | 3.0 or 3.5 m |
| Companion Savaria Luma | Through-floor | 2 | 4.2 m (three conflicting figures published) |
| Companion Cygnus, Aurora, Stratus | Through-floor | Not published | Not published |
| Aritco HomeLift, Compact, Access | Shaft (EN 81-41) | 2–6 floors | Up to 15.0 m |
| Cibes Cloud Plus | Platform / shaft | Up to 6 | 20.0 m |
| Cibes Air, A4000, A5000, C1 Pure | Platform / cabin, shaft | Up to 6 | 15.0 m |
| SWIFT Pro / Lite | Shaft | 2–6 floors | Up to 15.0 m |
From our UK home lift specification database: 27 models, read from manufacturers’ own published specifications. Gaps shown as “not published” on purpose.
Two practical consequences fall out of that table, and neither appears on a competitor’s cost page.
If you have three storeys, you are shopping for a shaft lift. The compact through-floor lifts that dominate UK advertising — Stiltz, Lifton, Terry, Wessex, the Stannah S2 and S3 — are all two-stop machines. Serving a second and third floor means a self-supporting shaft from Cibes, Aritco or SWIFT, or a traditional shafted lift. That is a different price, a different install and a different footprint.
If you have tall ceilings, check travel before you check price. Terry’s through-floor range tops out at 3.6 m of travel and Wessex at 3.0 or 3.5 m. A Victorian or Edwardian house with a floor-to-floor height over 3.5 m rules those out on the specification alone, before anyone quotes. Stiltz publishes 4.5 m, and 6.0 m on the Trio+.
Home lift cost by number of floors, 2026
These are our own working bands. They are built from the published figures above, from the model specifications, and from the brand price bands on our nine brand pages. They are estimates and we label them as estimates — nobody in the UK publishes a floor-by-floor price table with sources behind it, ourselves included, because the source data does not exist.
| Configuration | Through-floor platform lift | Vacuum (pneumatic) lift | Shaft, traction or electric lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 floors (1 stop above ground) | £13,000 – £20,000 | £20,000 – £35,000 | £18,000 – £35,000 |
| 3 floors (2 stops above ground) | Not available — no UK through-floor model serves three floors | £28,000 – £42,000 | £25,000 – £45,000 |
| 4 floors (3 stops above ground) | Not available | £35,000 – £50,000 | £35,000 – £55,000 |
UK Homelifts estimates, reconciled against the brand pages and the price tracker on 3 September 2026. Installed prices including standard building works.
What each extra floor actually adds
The second stop: roughly £5,000 to £10,000, and it is mostly the machine
Going from a ground-to-first lift at £13,000 to £16,000 to a three-storey installation is not one increment — it is a category change. You lose the 13A-socket, no-pit, no-shaft simplicity of a through-floor lift and take on a self-supporting shaft that arrives prefabricated and is bolted together on site. The cheapest shaft lift with a published UK price is the Cibes A4000 at from £18,000; the Cibes C1 Pure cabin lift is from £27,000. Aritco’s smallest model is published at £22,000 for two floors, before you add a third.
The third stop: another £7,000 to £10,000, and now it is the building
Beyond three floors, the lift itself scales fairly gently — the same Cibes and Aritco platforms handle up to six stops on the same drive. What scales is everything around it: more shaft, more landing doors, more structural tie-ins to more floors, longer scaffolding and access, and a real possibility of a three-phase supply. Aritco’s larger models publish a 400V three-phase option, and Cibes’ C1 Pure explicitly requires more than a 13A socket. If the supply is not already there, that is a separate job with a separate connection cost.
What does not change
Servicing does not scale with floors in any meaningful way — published annual contracts run £195 to £750 regardless. Nor does the car size, unless you are also changing who uses the lift. If the number of floors is going up but the user is the same one person, resist being upsold into a bigger car at the same time; those are two separate decisions with two separate prices.
How many floors do you actually need?
It is worth being blunt about this, because the difference between two and three stops is often £10,000 or more.
A loft conversion is usually not a lift floor. Loft stairs, head heights and the structural situation at that level frequently make a third stop impractical even where the budget exists. A two-stop lift to the main bedroom floor, with the loft reached by stairs, is a far more common outcome than the brochures suggest.
A basement counts as a floor. Ground-to-basement is the case where a through-floor lift is often still viable, because it is a single stop — but the pit, the slab and any water issues put it closer to the moderate or complex end of our installation cost bands.
Mid-floor stops are a real option on some models. Wessex publishes an optional mid-floor stop on the VM, which serves split-level and half-landing homes without moving to a shaft lift. It is the one exception worth asking about if your house is split-level rather than genuinely three-storey.
Two lifts are almost never the answer. Two two-stop through-floor lifts stacked to cover three floors costs more than one shaft lift, occupies two apertures on the middle floor, and doubles the servicing. It comes up in enquiries and it has almost never been the right call.
How we built this page. The published prices were read from each publisher’s live page and recorded exactly as written, with the floors they cover, what the figure includes, the date on the page and the source URL. The stops and travel table comes from our specification database, compiled by reading every model’s published technical specification; where a manufacturer publishes nothing we print “not published” rather than guessing. Our own floor-by-floor bands are labelled as estimates and kept separate from the published figures.
Where the figures come from. 95 published prices from 34 UK publishers in the price tracker, refreshed monthly with a change log, and 27 models in the specification database. Brand bands reconcile to our nine brand pages, which are the source of truth for every price on this site.
Independence. UK Homelifts does not manufacture, sell or install lifts, and does not score brands. We are paid when a reader asks us to pass their details to suppliers, and that has no bearing on which figures appear here.
The rest of the price cluster
Home lift prices in the UK 2026 — the full guide, brand by brand and type by type
Home lift installation cost — what is inside the headline price and what is not
Cheapest home lift in the UK — every published price under £15,000
The lift finder — match your floors, user and floor construction to models that fit
Home lift cost by floors: your questions answered
How much does a 2 storey home lift cost?
A two-storey, one-stop home lift is the mainstream UK product and starts at about £13,000 installed for a one-person through-floor model, running to around £20,000 for a wheelchair-rated car with a better finish. Published examples include £13,995 to £16,000 for a ground-to-first lift including basic preparatory work (Pollock Homelifts) and from £13,000 for a one-person Wessex VM including standard building works (1st Choice Home Lifts, February 2026).
How much does a 3 floor home lift cost?
Realistically £25,000 to £45,000 installed, because no through-floor home lift sold in the UK serves three floors. A three-storey installation means a shaft or platform lift from Cibes, Aritco or SWIFT, and a shaft build the two-stop lifts do not need. The cheapest three-capable lift with a published UK price is the Cibes A4000 at from £18,000 for the lift; Pollock publishes £21,000 upwards for a lift serving up to five floors, lift only, with building work priced separately.
Can a through-floor lift serve three floors?
No UK model does. Every through-floor lift on sale here that publishes a stop count — Stiltz, Lifton, Terry, Wessex, the Stannah Uplifts S2 and S3, and the Companion Savaria Luma — is a two-stop machine. Wessex publishes an optional mid-floor stop on the VM, which suits split-level homes but is not a third storey. For three or more floors you need a shaft or platform lift.
Does the number of floors change the servicing cost?
Barely. Published UK annual service contracts run from £195 (1st Choice) to £350–£750 (My Mobility UK) largely irrespective of the number of stops. What changes running cost more is the drive type and the power supply: a through-floor lift on a 13A socket is cheaper to run than a shaft lift on a dedicated or three-phase circuit.
What if my ceilings are high?
Check maximum travel before price. Terry’s through-floor range publishes 3.6 m of travel and Wessex 3.0 or 3.5 m, so a floor-to-floor height above about 3.5 m rules them out on specification alone. Stiltz publishes 4.5 m, and 6.0 m as an option on the Trio+. Shaft lifts from Cibes and Aritco go to 15 m and above.
Published figures captured 20 August 2026 and re-checked 3 September 2026 against the publishers’ live pages; specifications read from manufacturers’ own technical documents. Compiled by the UK Homelifts research team. We publish our workings: see the price dataset and the specification database.
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