Home and commercial
lifts in Melbourne

A Melbourne job starts with the building, not a model number. Residential lifts on this site travel up to 12 metres, about four levels, and the shallowest pit in that range is 50 millimetres. The home models are SWIFT Pro, SWIFT Lite, Phoenix and InDomo. Commercial lifts are the Australian-built Orion and Mariner, for workplaces, schools and public buildings that need compliant access without a machine room. Both commercial models are rated to 630 kilograms and travel up to 8 metres.

Disabled-access lifts are the Mariner DDA, the Low-Rise platform and the Mobilift. Mobilift is a manually operated portable wheelchair platform: it sets up in under five minutes and is available for short or long term hire, which is how a venue gets access for an event without a permanent shaft. The disabled-access range is built to the AS1735 parts written for people with limited mobility.

NDIS work uses that same range. A lift usually sits in a plan as a complex home modification or as high-cost assistive technology, and the NDIA decides whether it is reasonable and necessary. We supply the itemised quotes, technical drawings and specifications an occupational therapist needs, and we do site visits with OTs. Where a lift is specifically designed for limited mobility and a treating doctor or OT provides the certificate, the lift and its installation can be supplied GST-free. That is a tax rule, not an NDIS rule, so it can apply to a self-funded buyer too.

We do not manufacture lifts. We choose three that suit Australian buildings, install them, and service them with our own technicians. SWIFT, from Sweden, is entirely battery-driven. It charges from a standard wall outlet, puts energy back into the batteries on the way down, and keeps running through a mains failure. The pit is 0 to 50 millimetres, which is why it fits houses other manufacturers decline. The models we sell are SWIFT Pro and SWIFT Lite.

Aussie Lifts are manufactured in Australia to AS1735 and the Disability Discrimination Act, rather than certified here after the fact. Phoenix is the self-supporting home lift, so the house does not have to be rebuilt to carry it. Orion and Mariner cover commercial and public access. Lead times are local, towers can be self-supporting, and spare parts do not have to clear customs. Area Lifting engineers the mechanics, electronics and car in Italy. InDomo is the full cabin for an awkward opening: custom car size, and low enough overhead to fit under a 2.4 metre ceiling. Area Lifting's manufacturer warranty is five years. Warranty on the other brands varies, and we say which before anything is ordered.

The practical point is on the lifts page: we stock parts for all three manufacturers in Melbourne, so a fault is not a six-week wait for a boat. Servicing stays in-house. It is not handed to a subcontractor.

Four lifts are installed and running at 2/226 Governor Rd, Braeside VIC 3195: a SWIFT Pro, an InDomo, an Orion and a Low-Rise. The first consultation is free, in the showroom or at the property. Visit the Braeside showroom and ride one before you commit, or ask us to come to site. Nothing is ordered until the space, the compliance requirement and the budget have a straight answer. Hours on the contact page are Monday to Friday, 7:00–4:30, and the showroom is open Saturdays by appointment. The phone is 1300 580 000.

These are published projects, each with its own page and its own suburb. They show the kind of work the team does in Melbourne. They are not a catalogue of every install, and a new house will not automatically match one of them.

The sequence is the one on the services pages. Design treats the car as a room: flooring, wall panels, ceilings, lighting, handrails and operating panels, checked against Australian standards. Installation is run by a project manager who coordinates the builder and the other trades, to Victorian building standards, with inspections along the way and a handover at the end. Where the model allows it, the lift arrives assembled and is craned into place. That is the method behind the two-day Orion install above, and it is not available for every shaft.

Retrofit or replacement is for an existing lift that is outdated, non-compliant or worn out, and for houses that were never designed with a shaft. With more than one manufacturer to draw on, an existing shaft can often be reused without major building work. Service and maintenance is a tailored agreement. The three levels published on the services page are Compliance (statutory inspections, documented, on schedule), Standard (servicing plus priority 24/7 call-out and preventative parts) and Comprehensive (parts and labour covered, as a fixed annual figure). Emergency call-out is 24 hours, from our own technicians.

If the property you are asking about is in Geelong rather than Melbourne, the Geelong lifts page describes the same ranges and how an on-site visit works from this Braeside base. The published project stories stay on this page, because that is where those jobs were.