Types of home elevators and useful knowledge

The variety of home elevator types offers many customer choices, but it also makes customers "lost in the matrix", causing more or less difficulties in the decision process. The following article will help you troubleshoot questions with useful information when installing elevators, follow along!

The most popular types of home elevators today
Currently on the market are popular small home elevators with 4 main technologies, which are hydraulic, cable, screw and vacuum elevators. In addition, there is also a seat ladder for the elderly or disabled, making it easier for them to move between floors in the house. Let's find out the advantages and disadvantages of each type of mini home elevator:

Cable-tracted elevator: This is a type of elevator that moves thanks to the traction cable system and is commonly used in low-rise buildings to super skyscrapers.

Advantages:

High load

Fast movement speed

Installation for high-rise buildings

Defect:

Do not save space when installing an elevator that requires depth and height to build the pit and top floor.

Hydraulic elevator: This type of elevator works through a hydraulic piston drive system.

Advantages:

Flexible "tailor-made" design, suitable for all spaces from trapezoidal, square, round ...

Matiz Vietnam's hydraulic elevators are absolutely safe with 4-layer protection technology: ARD - SRS - Emcall - SWS.

No need to dig the foundation: Because the pit is only 10-15cm short, the elevator can come from anywhere.

Hydraulic elevators do not need to build an additional machine room: The height of the top floor only needs to be at least 2.2m.

Quiet operation: The noise level fluctuates only in the range of 40-48dB, ensuring the best sleep and activities for your family members.

Defect:

Possessing many of these great advantages, owning a hydraulic elevator requires customers to spend a large amount of investment.

Screw elevator: Is a type of elevator that moves through the elevator motor and screw system, the speaker coil makes the movement.

Advantages:

Small pit depth and top deck height

Can be installed in small house space

Aesthetics are quite good

Defect:

Equipment wear and tear. Up to the time of costly maintenance (due to the need to replace the gear if chipped, worn out the horn, ..)

Powder coated steel materials are not suitable for Vietnam's hot and humid climate, easy to cause rust.

Making noise when operating, about 60dB equivalent to a vacuum cleaner.

Slow movement speed (moving 4 floors takes about 1 minute 30 seconds).

There is no cabin, when entering the floor to go, if you want to get out, you have to press the ladder to run to another floor to open the door.

High level of investment.

Vacuum elevator: A type of elevator that moves due to the pressure difference between the lower and upper parts of the cabin.

Advantages:

Does not consume much energy, friendly to the environment.

No pit, well or engine room needed

Defect:

High installation cost

Difficult to maintain: due to the need to replace the main air-glass gasket.

Too noisy movement caused by vacuum pump bơm

Low load, low travel speed. Only low-rise buildings can be installed.

Seat Lift (StairLift): An elevator that uses propulsion and runs vertically on a slider. The feature of this type of ladder is that the lifter is located on the slider combined with the seat with armrests and footrests. The slider will be fixed on the wall or on the stairs and depends on the type of stairs in use in your home.

Chair lift is the solution for the elderly and disabled. Not only has a simple seat, StairLift also has a wheelchair type, helping people with disabilities to move conveniently between floors.

Depending on your needs, house architecture and family finances, you will choose the most suitable type of home elevator.

Useful instructions when installing a home elevator

Are you in need of a good price mini home elevator? On what basis will you determine which is a quality elevator? Here are some criteria when installing elevators that you should refer to, save and use when necessary:

First, when there is a power failure, the elevator needs an automatic rescue system to bring the elevator to the nearest floor, open the door and let the people inside escape. In some non-reputable elevator installation facilities, the elevator is equipped with an automatic rescue feature, but it does not work. Therefore, customers must pay attention to safety checks during installation and periodic checks during maintenance.

Second, ventilation fan system, emergency lighting and communication system are also basic requirements that an ideal mini home elevator needs. Especially the internal communication system, because no matter how efficiently the machine operates, it is difficult to avoid unexpected incidents. In this case, a landline phone system installed in the cabin makes it easy for the user to call outside assistance.

Third, about the noise level of the elevator, this is a factor that many customers often ignore. However, in the long run, this factor is extremely important for the health and sleep of family members.

Finally, in addition to the main function of making it easier to move between floors in the house, a small home elevator is also a decorative piece of furniture for a more luxurious space. Therefore, the design of the elevator needs to ensure harmony with the interior space of the house. To reduce the heaviness of the rough steel wall, you should choose an elevator with transparent glass walls and embellished with materials such as wood, leather, colored stainless steel, etc.

In particular, customers need to choose a reputable home elevator installation, warranty and maintenance service provider. You should pay attention to the experience of the installer, a young unit, without much experience in the field that can bring risks. Typically, the service capacity is not good, the operation is unstable or the actual number of works is not large enough for you to objectively evaluate the product quality.