What are curved stairlifts?
Where your relative’s stairs have bends, corners or half-landings, a straight stairlift won’t be an option. They’ll need a curved stairlift, which means a much less straightforward situation. They’ll be faced with greater expense, as a curved lift must be custom-built for their staircase alone.
That’s why it’s a good idea to be sure they need a stairlift, as a curved stair lift can’t go back to the factory. Buying reconditioned curved stairlifts is also slightly awkward, as your relative will only be able to buy the chair and not the rails, which are always custom-built for one house only.
If your relative has a curved staircase but would like to stick to straight stairlifts, two runs of straight lifts with a bridging platform might be possible. However, this will mean having two stairlifts, which will cost more in maintenance. This does, however, open your relative up to the possibility of buying reconditioned stairlifts, thereby saving around one-third on the new stairlift price.
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