Stairlift Costs publishes eleven original datasets on what stairlifts cost in the UK, who makes them and how councils fund them. Each one names its sources and carries the date its figures were read, and most can be downloaded as a CSV file. This page is the index to all of them.
Stairlift Costs’ UK Stairlift Price Tracker puts the median published price of a new UK stairlift at £2,972.50 (straight £1,995, curved £4,597.50), from 62 prices published by 22 UK sellers and captured 20 October 2026. The full method is on the methodology page.
Price datasets
| Dataset | What it holds | Figures read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Stairlift Price Tracker | Every price UK sellers publish for new and reconditioned stairlifts, each with its source URL and an evidence grade. The first capture holds 290 sourced datapoints. | 20 August 2026 and 20 October 2026. The next capture is due on 20 November 2026. | Both captures (CSV), price history (CSV) |
| Prices by staircase type | Each seller’s own prices compared across staircase types. A curved lift cost a median £3,650 more than the same maker’s straight model, and the outdoor version of the same lift a median £800 more. | 1 October 2026 | CSV |
| UK stairlift rental prices | Published rental terms from 48 UK sellers’ websites. Eighteen publish comparable straight rental terms: median upfront fee £475, median monthly rent £50, median first-year cost £1,050. | 12 October 2026 | CSV |
| Same-model price gaps between sellers | Seven new stairlift models advertised by more than one UK seller, with the lowest and highest advertised price for each. Five of the seven were priced more than 10% apart. | 20 August 2026 | Table on the page |
| Removal and buy-back prices | Every removal price and buy-back policy published on a UK seller’s own website. Nine sellers publish a removal price, and the median of their lowest advertised prices is £100. | 5 October 2026 | Table on the page |
The stairlift price breakdown is an analysis built on the tracker’s 20 August 2026 capture. It splits a median price into rail, chair, fitting, survey and VAT.
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Ownership, models and running costs
| Dataset | What it holds | Figures read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stairlift Running Costs Report 2026 | Servicing, repairs, batteries, electricity, cover plans and removal, with ten-year totals by purchase route. The report puts the running cost of a stairlift at £235 a year. | Published 11 August 2026 | CSV |
| Stairlift Brand Ownership Map 2026 | Brand, owner group, ultimate owner, owner type and country for every major stairlift brand sold in the UK, traced through company filings. | Published 11 August 2026 | CSV |
| UK stairlift model specifications | The specification each manufacturer publishes for 37 models from 10 brands: maximum user weight, widths, stair angle, speed, rail length and any price. Where a maker publishes nothing, the cell says so. | Edition 1, 8 September 2026 | CSV, XLSX |
| Ageing in Place Cost Report 2026 | The cost of staying at home with a stairlift set against moving house, home care and residential care, as ten-year totals and weekly equivalents. | Built on the tracker’s 20 August 2026 capture | CSV |
Grant datasets
| Dataset | What it holds | Figures read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disabled Facilities Grant funding by council | Published allocations for all 296 English local authorities that deliver the grant, for 2025-26 and 2026-27, with the change on the base allocation. | Published 7 September 2026 | CSV |
| Council DFG top-ups by city | What each UK city council’s own policy document says it pays on top of the grant, with the document named and linked in each row. | 28 to 31 August 2026 | Table on the page |
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What the figures are, and what they are not
A published price is a figure a seller prints on its own website. Many are “from” prices and some leave out fitting, so a published price is never a guaranteed installed price.
The price bands on our guide pages are budget estimates for a fitted lift. They are labelled as bands wherever they appear beside a tracker median, because the two measure different things.
A quote is what a surveyor offers one household after a home visit. Quotes that readers send us are graded separately and never enter the medians or the published-price tables. The methodology page sets out the filters, the evidence grades and the limits of each capture, including the sellers whose pages could not be read.
How to cite this research
Credit the dataset by name, give the date its figures were read and link to its page. For example: Stairlift Costs, UK Stairlift Price Tracker, prices captured 20 October 2026, https://stairliftcosts.co.uk/stairlift-price-tracker/.
The tracker, running costs, brand ownership, ageing in place and model specification files are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The council allocation file reuses government data under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The same data is published in machine-readable form. datasets.json lists every dataset on this page with a stable identifier, the date its figures were read and its download links. uk-stairlift-price-tracker.json holds all 470 tracker observations from both captures, and each row marks whether it counts towards the headline median, so the published medians can be recomputed from the file. uk-stairlift-price-history.json holds one row per capture.
Who maintains it
Claire Ashworth edits the UK Stairlift Price Tracker and Jacob Whitmore is managing editor. Stairlift Costs is published by Whito Ltd, company number 10918465. We do not sell stairlifts, and the disclosure page explains how the site earns money.
When a figure turns out to be wrong it is changed on the page and logged on the corrections page, with the old figure left visible there. Older captures stay in the downloads so that anyone can check what changed. Our editorial policy covers sourcing, and a machine-readable map of the entities and evidence on this site is published at entitymap.json.
Last updated 10 November 2026.
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