Home Elevator Installation Process

Thinking about installing a home elevator? Below we share what happens with selection, purchase, and installation to prepare you to ask all the questions you need to before selecting your elevator type, options, and installation location.

Following the onsite elevator consultation, we prepare a detailed quote that includes all that is required to prepare your home from pre-construction to installation of your home elevator to helping you clearly understand how to use it and its safety features.

Undoubtedly, you will have questions after receiving the quote. We are available in our showroom, via email, or by phone to answer them. Once you are completely comfortable with your home elevator pricing [link], selection, and options, we will collect your down payment and order your elevator. We work with you to set a date for installing your new elevator in your home.

Our licensed and bonded team of elevator construction experts arrive promptly on the scheduled day. They ensure the areas that will be affected by the pre-construction are cleared and protected from damage.

Minimal construction is required for balcony-mounted PVE applications. This is where the elevator is installed in an open-air space, a multi-story area, indoor mezzanine, or a stairwell. The construction crew often creates a landing, platform, or walkway for ease of entry and exit for passengers. This pre-construction requirement covers the space between the elevator and balcony floor while ensuring stability as the Vacuum Elevator is attached to the structure on each level by means of a Balcony Band.

For through-floor applications involving the PVE elevator, the construction crew creates a through-floor round hole 2” inches greater than the exterior diameter of the PVE model purchased. Then they finish the hole with materials that match your existing trim, walls, and ceiling materials so looks like it has always been there.

A licensed electrician installs any circuits, outlets, and other electrical connection needs for your elevator.

Your PVE elevator is carefully uncrated. As the elevator is delivered in modular sections, our experienced vacuum elevator installers carry the section into your home and rest them on the base of your first floor. The modular sections are then hoisted up and stacked on-top of each other. The machinery is mounted and connected to the 220-volt power supply.

The elevator installers fully test your elevator’s operation and features prior to turning the elevator over to the homeowner.

The pre-construction and PVE elevator installation generally require a combined 2-3 days.

Your hydraulic or traction elevator is uncrated and inspected. Then the brackets are installed at the top and bottom of the hoistway and at intervals along the vertical supports. Then the vertical track rails are attached to the brackets.

The car is mounted on the track and, if applicable, any motor that is separate from the car is mounted. Then the assembly is electrified so that the elevator technicians can adjust the elevator car’s landing positions.

The elevator installers fully test your elevator’s operation and features.

The pre-construction and traction or hydraulic elevator installation generally requires a week to 10 days, but is highly variable depending on your home’s architecture and where the shaft is installed.

Your home elevator project manager walks you through the operation and safety features of your newly installed home elevator. Before we leave, our team ensures you are happy and can confidently use the elevator.

Home Elevator of Houston is just a call away if you have questions or require repair or service needed for any elevator we install.

Elevator service is rarely needed on PVE elevators and minimal maintenance is required. PVE elevators do not require annual maintenance like other types of residential elevators. There are no lubricants, oils, or gases required. Only a quick replacement of the main seal is required about every five years or 15,000 lifts. You can count on our certified elevator technicians to repair and maintain your elevator.

Our trained elevator technicians offer all the regular elevator maintenance and repair services you need for any traction or hydraulic elevator installed by us.