Home Elevator Cost in Utah

For each type, we took the median of published low prices and the median of published high prices, then rounded each to the nearest $500. You can read how we worked out these prices.

The shaft is the enclosed column the car rides inside. Shaftless models and through-floor lifts skip that and simply pass through a cutout in the floor. Nationally, an elevator serving two stories in a house tends to run $30,000 to $60,000 installed.

Call us today to talk through which of these lifts fits your stairs and your budget.

A couple of factors push a basic quote up the most:

• More floors: each story above two tacks on about $9,000 to $15,000.
• Building a shaft where none exists: framing one into an already-built house costs about $5,000 to $25,000.

Labor sits inside the total too. Elevator and escalator installers in Utah earn a median of $38.97 an hour. Across the whole country, the figure comes to $52.84 an hour. Carpenters build the shaft or the floor opening, and they make $25.17 an hour at the midpoint in Utah.

Utah does not require a state elevator permit or inspection for a lift inside a single-family home, but your city or county handles the building permit. Under Utah's elevator law, a device placed in a single-family house does not count as an elevator. Utah's elevator rules likewise leave private residence elevators out. Those rules are administered by the Utah Labor Commission office that oversees boilers, elevators, and coal mines.

Your city or county building department still issues the building permit under the residential code. The local code is what your home elevator answers to, not the state elevator safety code.

An elevator shared across several homes, like one in a condo or townhome building, is regulated by the state in full.

You can request a state inspection for your home elevator if you want one. The Labor Commission's elevator safety office bills it at its special inspection rate, and we could not find that amount posted anywhere. Whatever the inspector flags comes back as recommendations only.

If you would like something official showing the elevator is safe, there is a State of Utah Certificate to Operate. To get it, you fix everything the inspector puts on the list and pay the certificate fee.

The Division of Professional Licensing issues licences for elevator mechanics and elevator contractors in Utah. Single-family home devices fall outside that licence. The law also names stair chairs, vertical platform lifts, and lifts that run along an incline as devices that are not elevators. The work itself still sits under general contractor licensing.

The state doesn't require an elevator mechanic licence for home jobs, so it's worth checking that your installer holds a general contractor licence. We can walk you through it, so call us today.

Two Utah programs can help cover a lift or an elevator.

• Reduced-interest loans: Zions Bank partners with the Utah Assistive Technology Foundation on loans between $1,000 and $50,000, and both elevators and lifts count. The rate follows prime, the base rate banks work from. The foundation covers half of it, so with prime at 8%, your rate would be 4%.
• Medicaid waiver: Utah's DSPD waiver offering limited supports helps Utahns living with an intellectual or developmental disability or a brain injury. It covers home changes, capped at $21,250 per person per year overall across all services.

A written quote for the lift and installation makes either application easier, and we can put one together for you.

Call us today for a clear quote on your home. We'll help you pick the right lift, plan the permit with your city or county, and look at ways to pay, so you can stop climbing stairs sooner.