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Professional Lift Solutions

01 Atlanta, GA

Home Elevators & Accessibility Lifts in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta homes go up and down rather than out. A Buckhead brick colonial with a finished terrace level is four floors of living, and the stair between them is usually the reason someone finally calls us. Our Georgia crews work out of Lithia Springs and cover the metro daily, which is what makes a same week service call possible inside the perimeter.

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02 Office

Professional Lift Solutions — Atlanta

Address
561 Thornton Rd., Suite YAtlanta, GA 30122
Phone
(888) 346-3651
Hours
Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PMSaturday Emergency service onlySunday Closed

03 Coverage

Communities we serve.

Inside the perimeter

  • Buckhead
  • Ansley Park
  • Druid Hills
  • Virginia Highland
  • Inman Park
  • Morningside
  • Brookhaven
  • Decatur
  • West Midtown

North metro

  • Sandy Springs
  • Dunwoody
  • Roswell
  • Alpharetta
  • Milton
  • Johns Creek
  • Marietta
  • East Cobb
  • Woodstock

Beyond the metro

  • Athens
  • Gainesville
  • Lake Lanier
  • Peachtree City
  • Newnan
  • Blue Ridge
  • Big Canoe
  • Columbus
  • Macon

04 Local Conditions

Building in metro Atlanta.

Georgia work splits into two problems: fitting a shaft into a house that was framed forty to a hundred years ago, and getting a modern machine past a historic district review.

Stacked closets are the cheapest shaft you will ever get

The most common retrofit we do in Sandy Springs, Marietta, and Brookhaven uses closets that already stack from the terrace level to the second floor. If the footprint lines up within a few inches on each floor, the framing cost drops dramatically because we are cutting two openings rather than building a tower. Before you call an architect, stand in the basement closet and look straight up. If the upstairs closet is roughly overhead, you probably have a hoistway.

Basements and terrace levels give you the machine room for free

Unlike coastal Florida, an Atlanta house usually has conditioned space below grade and room for a hydraulic pump unit within twenty feet of the shaft. That makes hydraulic drive the default here: quieter, cheaper to install than traction on a three stop run, and easy to service. The tradeoff is a real pit, typically eight to twelve inches, which means breaking slab. On a poured basement floor that is a half day with a saw and it is finished before the shaft framing starts.

Historic districts regulate what you see from the street

Druid Hills, Inman Park, Grant Park, and the Atlanta landmark districts review exterior changes, not the inside of your house. An interior elevator almost never triggers a certificate of appropriateness. What does trigger review is an exterior shaft addition, a new roof penetration or bulkhead visible from the right of way, or an exterior platform lift at a front entrance. We design around that by keeping the overhead inside the existing roofline where possible and moving accessibility lifts to a side or rear approach. On older homes we also survey the floor framing carefully. Balloon framing and true dimensional joists behave differently than modern trusses when you cut a hole in them.

Four stops changes the machine and the permit

A terrace level, main, second, and third floor run pushes past the travel limits of some residential units and, in Georgia, past what the residential code will accept without additional review. That is where we either move to a traction machine with a longer rated travel or, in a mixed use or small commercial building near the BeltLine, spec a LU/LA unit instead. Getting that call right at the drawing stage prevents a redesign after the state elevator inspector reviews the plans.

05 What We Install

Every product line, installed in Atlanta.

06 Owners

From clients around Atlanta.

  • “We have a 1920s house in Druid Hills and assumed an elevator was off the table. They found a path through two closets and the attic, and nothing about the exterior changed, so the historic review was a non issue.”

    Ellen & Rob Pierce · Druid Hills retrofit

  • “Four stops from the terrace level to the third floor, and they were the only company that came back with a drawing instead of a guess. The install team was in and out in a week.”

    D. Whitfield · Sandy Springs, new construction

  • “Our lift failed on a Friday afternoon with my mother upstairs. Someone was at the house within a few hours and had it running that evening. That is the whole reason I keep the maintenance plan.”

    Angela Boyd · East Cobb, service call

07 Get Started

Talk to the Atlanta team.

Send us your plans or a photo of the space. We will come back with the options that actually fit, and what each one costs.

Phone
(888) 346-3651
Email
sales@lifts.pro
Hours
Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
Showroom
6311 Porter Road, Suite 6, Sarasota
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