Home Elevator Cost in New Jersey

Nothing moves the price as much as the kind of lift you pick. These are typical installed prices, which our site derives from published ranges for each kind of lift (how we work these out).

Which kind fits depends on your home's layout. Call us and we'll come look and give you a price for your home.

HomeGuide finds that each floor beyond two adds roughly $9,000 to $15,000 (source). A shaft is the enclosed space the car moves through on its way up and down. Adding one to a house that already stands falls between $5,000 and $25,000.

Yes. If your one- or two-family home is getting a new elevator, the state wants a construction permit, a plan review, plus an acceptance inspection and test, per the state rules. The acceptance inspection is the check performed on the finished elevator before anyone rides in it.

Here is how the steps usually unfold:

1. The installer files the construction permit application with your local building department.
2. The elevator subcode official goes over the plans. That is the local inspector responsible for elevator safety.
3. Before you start using it, the finished elevator goes through its acceptance inspection and test.

These rules come from the state Division of Codes and Standards. Every elevator must follow the national ASME safety codes named in the state's building rules.

The state's plan review fee is $70 per elevator in a house. That is far below the $365 fee charged for elevators elsewhere, per the state code.

For the inspection itself, the state charges $227 on a home elevator and $76 on a stairway chairlift or wheelchair lift. The fee goes away when an approved inspection agency files its signed reports. Your town charges a permit fee of its own as well, and the amount differs from one town to the next.

After your elevator passes its acceptance inspection, New Jersey asks for no recurring inspections of a home unit that the public does not use. You do not need to register it with the state either. An elevator contained entirely within one apartment or condo and closed to the public gets the same exemption from recurring inspections.

Under a 2012 state law, anyone who installs, repairs, tests or maintains elevators in the state must be a licensed elevator mechanic or work under one (source). Home elevators are covered too. This rule does not cover chair lifts or stair lifts within a home.

Phone us to reach a licensed installer.

Installers in New Jersey are paid more than the national average. The typical elevator installer here makes $66.31 an hour, against $52.84 an hour nationally, according to federal pay data. Wages are not the same as the labor rate on your quote. Carpenters, who handle the shaft framing and the opening cut into the floor, typically make $30.77 an hour locally.

If you qualify, two New Jersey programs may help with the cost:

• NJ FamilyCare long-term care: The state's Medicaid program runs Managed Long Term Services and Supports, which serves people needing ongoing care at home. It will cover up to $15,000 in home modifications over a lifetime, with no cap each year, as a health plan's policy states.
• Assistive Technology Loan Program: Borrowers can take out between $500 and $30,000 for purchasing or refinancing assistive technology. The National Disability Institute runs it for residents of New Jersey and New York, and the NJ Division of Disability Services lists it.

We'll put your quote in writing so you can apply. Call today.