Benefits of an Inclined Elevation Lift

With aging demographics and a scarcity of shore-level cottages, inclined lifts are becoming increasingly popular. Here are some great reasons to consider one for your hillside property.

Enhanced Cottage Life

Your property is valuable and you want to enjoy it.  The lift will give all your family and friends the ability to enjoy the entire experience of a hillside waterfront property.  A custom-designed lift will give you the convenience, ease, and pleasure of hillside cottage living. "With the lift, all the disadvantages of living high off the water become the advantages of living high off the water." Owner, Lift 48.

Effortless Entertaining

Built to run, built to last, your lift will carry you, your family, and your guests (as well and food and drink) between your different elevations, making dockside living and entertaining easier and more relaxing. "With the lift, the dock's another room at the cottage." Owner, Lift 34.

Endless Utility

Your lift is a workhorse that can also move serious amounts of materials up and down your hillside. One was used to carry 56 metric tons of sand a gravel up the hill for a new septic bed, Lift 27 was built to bring an old cottage up the hill and a new one down.

A Reason To Buy High

Steep properties have unique and desirable aspects that shoreline properties may not share, such as panoramic views, greater privacy, less noise, a fresh breeze to keep the bugs away, and, often, lower purchase prices because of access issues. With a lift, you can enjoy a spectacular elevated location and still get easy waterfront access. "The best cottage decision we could have made." Owner, Lift 38.

More Great Years At the Cottage

 A lift will both increase and extend your enjoyment of your property for those with health or mobility issues when a long, frequent climb can become an obstacle. "Before the lift went in we'd see them two or three weekends a year. Now the cottage is never empty." Neighbours of Lift 23.

Higher Property Value

A lift adds value and sale-ability to your property when your cottage is above the water.  A marginal property can become not merely viable, but exceptional, once it has convenient waterfront access. 

Smaller Footprint

The track support structures have a footprint of only 1 to 8 sq. ft. for each 20' section of track. This is much less than required by flights of stairs separated by landing platforms. The track also allows a lot of light through, so vegetation can continue growing underneath the track. This is particularly important on sandy hillsides where the vegetation adds stability to the slope, as in Lift 51.

Harder to See

Even when high off the ground, traversing a hillside, exposed and traversing a hillside, following a rock face, or peeking through the foliage, our lifts are relatively hard to spot from the water. And the air.