Lifts for Geelong
homes and buildings

Nothing is ordered from a phone description of a stairwell. The first consultation is free, and it happens either at your property or at the Braeside showroom. It covers what the space allows, what compliance demands, and a budget, before a model is named. Project managers then come out, measure, and write a program that fits the builder rather than the other way around. Design is the part you live with: flooring, wall panels, lighting, handrails, operating panels and doors.

Installation is mechanical and electrical, done by the same crew, then commissioned and signed off. Where the model allows it, the lift is assembled before it arrives and craned into place, which keeps days on site down. That method is not universal. A shaft that has to be built in pieces takes longer, and the project manager is the person who says which one yours is. On an Australian-made modular lift, the published install window starts at two days. A published example, in Melbourne rather than Geelong, is an Orion craned in over two days.

If you want to step into a lift first, four are running at Braeside: SWIFT Pro, InDomo, Orion and a Low-Rise. Specifiers can bring the architect. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 7:00–4:30, and the showroom takes Saturday visits by appointment. Book through the contact page, or call 1300 580 000.

The range is the Victorian range. There is no separate Geelong catalogue, and this page does not invent local case studies. Compare the models on their own pages.

Home lifts are SWIFT Pro and SWIFT Lite, which are battery-driven and Swedish; Phoenix, which is Australian-made and self-supporting; and InDomo, the Italian cabin that will fit under a 2.4 metre ceiling. Residential travel goes up to 12 metres, about four levels. The shallowest pit in the home range is 50 millimetres. In an existing house, pit depth is often the fact that decides whether a lift is possible at all. The residential page holds the four side by side.

Commercial lifts are Orion and Mariner Public Access, both from Aussie Lifts. They are self-supporting on most installs, rated to 630 kilograms, and travel up to 8 metres or four levels. They are the models for workplaces, schools and public buildings that cannot give up a machine room or a load-bearing wall.

Disabled access is three different tools. Mariner DDA is an enclosed car for a multi-level building. The Low-Rise is a platform for a short rise, and one is running in the Braeside showroom so you can take a wheelchair or a scooter onto it. Mobilift is the portable one: manual, under five minutes to set up, and available for short or long term hire, delivered to Geelong, when the access is needed for a day or a season rather than a decade. NDIS applications use this disabled-access range. We prepare the quotes, drawings and specifications, and the NDIA makes the funding decision.

SWIFT stays up during a blackout because the drive is the battery. It charges from an ordinary outlet and regenerates on the descent. Choose it when the slab will not take a deep pit, or when a power cut cannot be allowed to trap someone between floors. The pit figure published for SWIFT is 0 to 50 millimetres.

Aussie Lifts are built in Australia to AS1735 and the Disability Discrimination Act from the start. Lead times run in weeks rather than a sea shipment, and parts come from this country. Phoenix, Orion and Mariner are the models with their own pages. The brand also builds goods lifts when a goods lift is actually the brief.

Area Lifting makes the mechanics, the electronics and the finishes in Italy, which is why the car can be resized to a hole nothing standard fits. The manufacturer's warranty is five years. Warranty on SWIFT and Aussie Lifts varies by model, so it is part of the quote rather than a slogan. An InDomo we have already published sits in a Melbourne stairwell, not a Geelong one: Italian stairwell installation. It is there so you can see what a tight void looks like with a cabin in it.

Parts for all three are held in Melbourne. The technicians who answer a Geelong call-out are Southern Lifts technicians. The lifts page is explicit that servicing is not passed to a subcontractor.

Maintenance is an agreement, not a hope. The three levels on the services page are Compliance, which is statutory inspections documented and kept on schedule; Standard, which adds priority 24/7 call-out and preventative parts; and Comprehensive, which covers parts and labour for a fixed annual figure. We recommend six monthly services for residential lifts, and quarterly servicing for public lifts, each covering safety checks, mechanical inspection and compliance testing. With that maintenance behind it, a lift of this type typically runs 20 to 25 years, and an older one can be modernised instead of replaced.

Emergency support is 24 hours. The number is 1300 580 000. If you have bought a building that already has one of our lifts, the change of ownership form updates the contact details we hold for emergency support and service.

Project stories on this website are labelled with the suburb they were built in. Today those pages are Melbourne and Deanside jobs. Read them for the method, crane-in, stairwell, glass shaft, temporary platform, not as a Geelong portfolio. The index is projects. The Melbourne lifts page is where those jobs are written up as a set, and where the showroom team is described from the city it actually works in.