Stairlifts can be dust magnets what is the best method and products to use to clean your stairlift. Cleaning your stair lift should be a simple straight forward job. A quick dust down twice a week with a cloth duster or feather duster should be more than adequate.

Avoid using water or cleaning solvents at all costs. For straight stairlifts with aluminium tracks/rails can be wiped over with a damp cloth (Damp Not Wet) Then buff dry with a clean cloth.

The chair seat/carriage can be cleaned using standard house polish! Spray the house polish onto the cleaning cloth then rub and buff to a shine. (Never spray the polish directly onto the chair/carriage)

Spraying house polish directly onto the carriage may well cause damage to components and circuit boards. If too much polish is applied it can find its way (Drip) through air vents and gaps etc. Causing S/C Short Circuits or corrode delicate components on the PCB printed circuit board.

Curved stairlift rails/tracks should never be cleaned with any type of solvents. Avoid house polish and DWD (Engineering oils) like the plague. Curved stairlifts use a system where the speed of the stairlift is monitored using an RMU! A roller sits on the rail and as your stairlift moves this roller rolls along the rail sending pulse information to the operating system.

Cleaning the curved rail with solvents will cause the roller to lose friction and skid. This action causes the stair lift to receive wrong pulses and the stair lift will stop/shutdown. Typical symptoms intermittent stop starting! The stairlift will travel a few inches then stop. This symptom could also be caused through flat batteries.

If you have to remove marks from the rail a good rub with a damp cloth should remove most marks. For stubborn marks a light rub with wire wool or light gauge emery paper is all that is required. The rail should appear matt/ dull not a shiny gloss colour.

Cleaning of your stair lift and rail should be undertaken by qualified engineers who should clean and lubricate the stairlift following the manufacturer's specification and guidelines on its annual service inspection.

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If you have problems with mobility and let's face it! If you own a stairlift then good chance you're not the fastest thing on two legs. The stairlift will glide you up and down stairs with no effort at all but a major concern with stairlifts is the mounting and dismounting from the stairlift chair.

All modern stairlifts come with a Seat Swivel option. Manual seat swivel or Powered seat swivel. The manual seat swivel requires the user to have some amount of strength in their lower legs to allow them to push shuffle the chair seat round into the swivel position.

Not such a good idea for someone with limited mobility issues. The automatic seat swivel chair is motorised and once the chairlift travels to the top of the stairs the seat will automatically swivel round into the correct position for easy dismount.

Another advantage of the seat swivel option! Once in the swivel position it now acts as a safeguard barrier and it is virtually impossible for the user to fall down the steep staircase. Ideal for people with balance disorders and elderly frail users who are not to steady on their legs.

Once the stairlift is in the seat swivel mode the electrical circuits are isolated hence the chairlift will not be able to function until the chair has been reset into its safe travelling position.

The powered seat swivel option is an extra addition and therefore may cost a little extra but is good money well spent. If you feel your mobility issues could get worse in time and you may need the powered swivel option in the future ensure the model you buy can be easily adapted to accommodate the motorised seat swivel mechanism.

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Living at home with a disability is no longer a burden it use to be. With the advent of the Home Lift it is now far easier for a disabled or elderly person to stay in the home they know and love. Simple access to all rooms that were not accessible

Disabled home lifts are not just for the disabled! Many senior citizens are now taking advantage of the 21st century technology and installing home Stairlifts and wheelchair lifts as an alternative to moving home. Depending on your disability you could stay in your own home unsupervised. If you thought it was hard leaving home at 17 try doing it at the age of 72

The upheaval of moving home for an elderly person is daunting to say the least. If you thought it was hard leaving home at 17 try doing it at 72. Imagine how much money you could safe by investing in a home lift. The ability to stay in the home you know and love is now possible with so many alternative access solutions at hand.

There are now many forms of disabled stairlifts available. Depending on your disability a standard straight or curved stairlift could solve your access solution problems. If the disabled person has a severe disability then a standard home stairlift will not be the ideal solution. Do plenty of research ther are many different models to choose from.

A more logical approach would be a wheelchair stairlift or commonly known as a "Through Floor Lift" Based on the common passenger lifts found in multi-story tower blocks or offices but on a much smaller compact scale

These compact through floor wheelchair lifts offer a greater flex ability and a secure enclosure for the disabled person to be seated and safely transported between floors. If the person must remain in their wheelchair then a through floor lift is the only correct option to choose.

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