If you’ve been struggling to navigate the stairs and are wondering whether you need to move house, have you considered getting a stairlift installed? At about £4,000 it will be considerably cheaper than calling in the estate agents.
Thought to have been first invented in the 1920s in Pennsylvania, when entrepreneur CC Crispen designed his “Inclin-ator” to help an ailing friend to move between floors, the modern stairlift has long been both the butt of jokes and a lifeline to those no longer able to climb their stairs. According to a survey by consumer group Which? the average price paid last year for a new stairlift was £3,867. The price typically paid for a straight stairlift was £3,371, or £4,728 for one that involved a curve.
