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butt hinge When you are buying an home stair lift, or electric stair lift, of course you have a good reason to do so.Maybe you are just getting real tired walking lift hinges up the stairs every time you need to fetch something from the bedroom upstairs.Perhaps you run out of breath just after a few steps.Or you have a serious disability to deal with.Regardless, you decided to install an electric stair lift, or a stair lift for disabled, as some call it.

What often happens though is that the electric stair lift rail protrudes quite a way into the hallway downstairs, blocking the foot traffic.Other times, a door will be positioned right below the stairs.In such cases, the protruding rail would either obstruct the traffic or prevent someone to enter through the door.

The home stair chair lift companies have long been able to cope with the problem by using three types of end-rail solutions.These are: Curved rail, manual hinged end rail, power hinged end rail, and the slide rail extension.Let’s look at all four solutions.

Curved rail solution

When your stairs are curved, you will want to install a curved stair lift anyways.Then, it is only natural to bend the bottom part of the rail sideways at the bottom of the stairs.That way, the bottom station will be out of the way, and the parked stairlift will not obstruct traffic.

Manual hinged rail solution

When your stair chair lift is straight, fitting straight stairs, you can select to have a hinge installed so that the bottom part of the rail can be manually lifted up and turned back onto the rest of the rail when not in use.That way, the obstructing bottom part of the rail will be out of the way.

Powered hinged rail solution

This is the same idea as the manual hinged rail, except it uses an electric motor to flip the bottom part of the rail up onto the rest of the rail.It can be controlled through the remote control.

Slide rail extension

Minivator has recently come up with a really neat idea that does not require a hinge.The bottom part of the rail is extended out, or slides out of the top part, as needed, or as the stair lift chair is approaching.The advantage of such hinge-free system is that it takes less space.

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