The median published price for a new UK stairlift is £2,800: straight £1,995, curved £4,395. From 73 prices for 17 brands, published by 25 sellers and captured 20 August 2026.
Reconditioned stairlifts: median £1,595 across 56 published prices. The £3,867 average widely quoted online is a Which? member survey of what buyers paid, with fieldwork carried out in December 2022, on an article date-stamped 1 April 2025.
Ask a UK stairlift company what a stairlift costs and, with a small number of exceptions, you will not get a number. You will get a home survey. This page exists because we went looking for every stairlift price actually published anywhere in the UK, by the brands themselves, by their dealers, by consumer bodies and by councils, and recorded each one with its source and the exact wording it came from. We found 290 of them. This page is the summary; the pattern they reveal matters more than any single figure.
The short version. Of the major stairlift manufacturers sold in the UK, only TK Home Solutions publishes model-level prices on its own website. Acorn, Stannah, Handicare, Brooks, Otolift, Platinum and Bespoke publish none, on the pages we checked on 20 August 2026. The prices that are published live in the dealer and installer channel, and they spread widely: the same Handicare Freecurve is listed at £3,995, £4,500 and £5,295 by three different dealers. Published new straight prices run from £1,350 to £5,561. Published new curved prices run from £2,695 to £10,000.
What changed since August
This is the second edition. Every published figure below was re-checked against its original source on 31 August 2026, eleven days after the first capture. That comparison is the thing a single snapshot can never give you, and it is why this page is worth returning to.
Not one published price moved. Twelve sources, every figure identical to the day. No brand that stayed silent started publishing, and no brand that published a number changed it.
| Source | What we re-checked | Result on 31 August 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| TKE Home Solutions | S100 from £1,715; S200 straight from £5,561; S200 curved from £5,972 | No change |
| Prestige Stairlifts | New straight £2,350; reconditioned straight £1,550; outdoor £1,995; rental £850 upfront plus £25 a week; servicing from £95 | No change. Curved is still the one price the page withholds |
| Halton Stairlifts | Straight £1,700; single-flight curved £3,500; heavy duty £2,500; hinged rail £2,000; outdoor £2,500; reconditioned £1,000 to £2,500+; removal £0 to £600 | No change |
| UK Stairlifts | New straight £1,350; new curved £3,990; reconditioned straight £990; reconditioned curved £2,950; heavy duty £2,350 | No change |
| Dolphin Stairlifts | Reconditioned straight £1,350; reconditioned curved £3,200; servicing from £95; call-outs from £80 | No change, but the source page still shows 29 November 2023, so these figures are now 21 months old |
| 1st Choice Stairlifts | Straight £2,150; curved £5,000; reconditioned £1,200 and £4,200; rental £450 plus £50 a month, or £2,000 plus £100 a month | No change |
| Manchester Stairlifts | Reconditioned £995; straight £1,995; curved £2,995, each fixed and inclusive of survey, fitting and a 12-month warranty | No change |
| Companion Stairlifts | Straight £2,000 to £4,000; curved £4,000 to £6,000; outdoor around £4,000 | No change |
| Age UK Mobility | From around £2,000; average £3,867 | No change, and still presented as a Which? survey from 2025 |
| Acorn Stairlifts | No price | No change. The cost FAQ still answers with a survey, not a figure |
| Otolift | No price | No change, and the page still explains why it gives none |
| Stannah | No price | No change. The site did not load on either check, on 20 or 31 August |
Every row above was re-fetched from the same URL recorded in the August edition. Where a source page shows its own date, that date is unchanged too.
What the stillness actually tells you
A published stairlift price is not a live price. It is a headline that sits on a website for months, and in some cases years: the Dolphin rate card has not been touched since November 2023. So when a salesperson in your hallway describes a reduction as time-limited, that reduction is not coming off the number you read online. It is coming off the quote you have just been given.
Which? found that 32% of buyers negotiated a reduction and 44% felt pressurised. Both of those things happen at the quote stage, in the room, well after the published figure has done its work. The BHTA Code of Practice, which is approved by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, says a member “must not” use price-drop or same-day-discount tactics. Read the published price as a starting marker, then get the quote in writing, then take your time.
Two sources are ageing
Dolphin Stairlifts last dated its price page 29 November 2023, which makes those figures 21 months old. Halton Stairlifts last dated its cost article 22 December 2025, so it has passed eight months. Both are still published as current, and both are flagged as aged in the table above rather than quietly dropped.
Stannah still could not be read
stannah.co.uk failed to load over a secure connection on 20 August and again on 31 August 2026, with an expired certificate. It is the best-known name in the UK market, it publishes no price, and this month its own site was not reachable to check. We record that because a tracker that only logs the sources that answer ends up describing the co-operative half of the market and calling it the whole.
Who publishes a price at all
What each brand does when it is asked for a price is set out below. Each row records what a brand’s own website showed on 20 August 2026. Where a brand publishes nothing, we quote what it says instead, because the wording is informative.
| Brand | Owner | Publishes its own prices? | What its site says |
|---|---|---|---|
| TK Home Solutions | TK Elevator | Yes. The only major manufacturer with a model-level list | “Our straight S100 stairlifts start from £1,715 and include our lifetime warranty.” The S200 is listed from £5,561 and custom curved from £5,972. It also publishes a buy-back schedule, which no other brand does. |
| Age UK Mobility | Age UK Trading; lifts supplied by Savaria Lifts (UK) Ltd trading as Handicare | Partly. Rental economics in full, but no product prices | Rental upfront “from around £1300 for a straight stairlift and around £3,000 for a curved stairlift”, then “from £80 per month” starting month seven. Its six stairlift product pages carry no price. |
| Companion | Savaria group. Companion Stairlifts Limited (04728243) was dissolved on 6 January 2026; the website remains live and displays no company number | Yes, the most of any brand site in its group | “Stairlift Prices can start at around £2,000.” Its cost article tables straight at £2,000 to £4,000 (average £3,000) and curved at £4,000 to £6,000 (average £5,000). |
| Stannah | Stannah Lifts Holdings, family owned, Andover | No | No price found. On 20 August 2026 stannah.co.uk was unreachable (expired security certificate) and the stannah.com store requires JavaScript; Stannah’s own Starla brochure (April 2023) contains no prices. Which? records that “Stannah says that it does not allow price negotiation: what you’re quoted is the final price.” |
| Acorn | Acorn Mobility Services Ltd | No price on its cost FAQ, its cost article or its straight stairlift page | “Our trained surveyors can carry out an assesment and give you an accurate quotation.” [sic] Its cost article argues the category has no standard rates. Its quote does include installation and stays valid for a year. |
| Handicare | Savaria Corporation | No | Its page titled “Stairlift Prices” contains no figure: “The price of a stairlift depends on a number of things…” |
| Brooks | Brooks Stairlifts Ltd, common ownership with Acorn | No | “Contact us today and receive a free stairlift brochure, video and quotation!” Dealers price Brooks lifts densely, see the next table. |
| Otolift | Ooms family and NPM Capital (Netherlands) | No, and it explains why | On a page titled Pricing: “At Otolift, we do not offer standard solutions because we believe that a stairlift should perfectly suit your situation.” It offers a free estimate on request. |
| Platinum | NorthEdge Capital, Keighley | No | Quote tool only. |
| Bespoke | Founder owned, Bradford | No, trade channel by design | Brochure and home assessment only, with a separate trade partner scheme. |
Last verified: 20 August 2026. Every figure in this table is a published price, with its source.
Sources: each brand’s own website, captured 20 August 2026. Full URLs in the sources list at the end of this page.
Several national installers do publish real rate cards, and they deserve naming for it. Halton Stairlifts publishes a type-by-type ladder (straight from £1,700, single-flight curved from £3,500, reconditioned from around £1,500, with removal, repair and even deposit terms). Prestige Stairlifts publishes new straight from £2,350, reconditioned straight from £1,550 installed, outdoor from £1,995 and a full rental rate, though it withholds new curved. 1st Choice Stairlifts publishes the cleanest six-line rate card we found, covering both purchase and rental. UK Stairlifts and Dolphin Stairlifts publish reconditioned and servicing prices. In a market where the manufacturers say nothing, these installers are the price signal.
Published prices by brand
These are the lowest and highest prices we found published anywhere for each brand, almost all of them dealer listings rather than manufacturer prices. A spread this wide on identical hardware is the story: the low and high ends are different sellers, different inclusions and sometimes different conditions, and most listings state no staircase assumption at all.
| Brand | New straight (published) | New curved (published) | Reconditioned straight | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stannah | £2,200 to £3,000 | £4,195 to £5,996 | £750 to £2,100 | All dealer prices; Stannah publishes none. The £4,195 (Dolphin Lifts, page dated 2018) is the only price in this dataset with a stated rail allowance: “including installation and up to 5 metres of rail”. |
| Acorn | £1,595 to £2,895 | £5,595 to £5,895 | £850 to £1,595 | An identical Acorn 130 spans £1,595 to £2,895 across sellers, a 1.8x spread. |
| Handicare | £1,495 to £2,495 | £2,950 to £5,895 | £1,100 to £1,795 | The Freecurve alone is listed at £3,995, £4,500 and £5,295 by three dealers. |
| Brooks | £1,800 to £1,995 | £4,395 | £1,295 | One dealer publishes a Brooks rental at £245 upfront then £10.38 a week, the cheapest published rental rate we found. |
| Minivator | £1,950 | £3,500 to £3,800 | £650 to £1,250 | Unicorn Stairlifts itemises what its curved price includes and shows the 180-degree turn costs £300 more than the 90-degree on the same model. |
| TK Home Solutions | £1,715 (S100) to £5,561 (S200) | £5,972 | £1,595 | Manufacturer’s own from-prices. The £5,972 curved figure also appears in a June 2023 council guide, so it may be a long-standing headline rather than a fresh 2026 price. |
| Otolift | Not published | £2,695 to £5,650 | Not published | The £2,695 (ex VAT) is one retailer’s in-store installed price; its own online listing at £4,150 ex VAT is kerbside supply only. Not a like-for-like spread, which is exactly the problem. |
| Bruno | £1,795 to £1,995 | Not published | Not published | Elite heavy-duty straight published at £2,995. One retailer’s finance example: from £140.24 a month over 12 months with a £1,399 deposit. |
| Platinum | £1,850 | £4,695 | Not published | Dealer prices, stated as subject to VAT at 20% with exemption available on signature of a form. |
Last verified: 20 August 2026. Every figure in this table is a published price, with its source.
Lowest and highest published one-off prices per brand and category in our dataset, captured 20 August 2026. Grade A means a seller’s own published price, everything above is grade A or B (dealer published). Some source pages are undated; the capture date is ours.
What no published price tells you. Only one price in all 290 datapoints states a rail-length assumption, and only one benchmark states a step count (a 13-step staircase, Stairlift Experts). Two prices for “a straight stairlift” can describe different rails, different warranties and different inclusions, and almost no seller says which. When you compare quotes, ask each supplier to state the rail length, the warranty term and whether removal is included, in writing.
The £3,867 problem
Search for the average UK stairlift price and one number dominates: £3,867. It is real, but it is older than the pages citing it suggest. Which? states its origin plainly: “When we last surveyed stairlift owners in December 2022, the average price respondents paid for a new stairlift was £3,867”, with straight lifts averaging £3,371 and curved £4,728. Which? dates its own fieldwork correctly.
Downstream it drifts. Age UK Mobility’s cost page (modified June 2026) calls it “A Which? survey from 2025”. An installer’s guide updated in July 2026 attributes the same figures to 2025 research. The likely cause is innocent, the Which? article itself carries an April 2025 date stamp, but the effect is that fieldwork from December 2022 circulates across the UK web in 2026 presented as current research. Prices have moved since then; the number has not.
What councils pay
Councils buy stairlifts constantly, through Disabled Facilities Grants and their own housing stock, and their procurement notices are public. We read around twenty award notices. None of them discloses a unit count or a per-unit price, so no honest cost-per-stairlift can be derived from them, but they still show things retail pages never do.
Fife Council’s 2024 award split the work into lots: £271,882 for straight stairlifts and £450,658 for curved, with the same servicing and removal scope in each. Glasgow City Council, leading for twelve Scottish councils and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, awarded a stairlift and access lift contract valued at £33.87 million to Handicare Accessibility Limited, and the notice records that exactly one tender was received. Oxford City Council’s 2025 cabinet papers show it budgets about £12,300 a year to service its stock of roughly 194 stairlifts, which works out near £63 per lift per year, while councils tell grant recipients that a private servicing contract runs £150 to £300 a year.
The most useful council document we found is a public price guide from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (June 2023), which asked suppliers to state their prices for residents. Within that one document, new straight lifts start anywhere from £895 (Teesside Mobility) to £2,500, and Acorn’s entry lists a straight lift “from £1300 including installation and 6 months rental”, followed by £50 per week rental after the initial six months. A near threefold spread, inside a single council’s own list.
Renting: the widest spread of all
| Publisher | Upfront | Ongoing | As published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rental Stairlifts (Brooks straight) | £245 | £10.38 a week | Includes service, maintenance and breakdown cover; term from 1 month. |
| GN Stairlifts (recon straight) | from £395 | £40 a month | Upfront covers preparation, installation and removal; no fixed term. |
| 1st Choice Stairlifts (straight) | from £450 | £50 a month | Curved rental: from £2,000 install plus £100 a month. |
| My Mobility UK (Acorn 130) | £695 (includes 3 months) | £50 a month | Buyout option offered. |
| Prestige Stairlifts (straight or curved) | £850 | from £25 a week | Includes installation and removal. |
| Age UK Mobility (straight) | around £1,300 | from £80 a month, from month seven | Upfront covers installation and the first six months; servicing included. Curved: around £3,000 upfront. |
Last verified: 20 August 2026. Every figure in this table is a published price, with its source.
Published rental rates, captured 20 August 2026. Which? (December 2022 fieldwork) put rental installation at £350 to over £1,000 and monthly fees at £40 to £150.
Our rental guide covers when renting beats buying; the break-even against a reconditioned purchase arrives at about 13 months on purchase price alone.
Why prices are this hard to pin down
The industry’s own code of conduct treats price opacity as a known problem. The British Healthcare Trades Association Code of Practice, an approved code under the Chartered Trading Standards Institute scheme (2024 update), lists among high-pressure selling techniques a “high initial price followed by the offer of a discount (often followed by a telephone call to the ‘manager’)”, a “discount on the condition that the consumer agrees to the sale that day”, and “withholding price information until the end of the sales discussion/visit”. It says clear pricing should be given in promotional material, including on websites.
Which? has documented the gap between code and practice. Its 2019 undercover investigation of Acorn recorded a request for an immediate decision with a £500 deposit and a discount produced after a call to a colleague, tactics it said “could well be in breach” of consumer law; it reported the findings to the BHTA. Its 2020 owner survey found 44% of stairlift buyers felt pressurised, and 32% of new-lift buyers negotiated a reduction, which means roughly a third of buyers established that the first price was not the final price. The oldest consumer research we found and the newest forum posts describe the market the same way; a buyer wrote in May 2025 that new prices are “a bit like double glazing, hard to pin down”.
The practical defence is unchanged: get at least three quotes, in writing, with the rail length and inclusions stated, and treat any discount that expires today as a reason for caution rather than urgency. The consumer research charity RiDC demonstrated why in a 2017 mystery shop, old data but a clean experiment: three firms quoting on one identical Kent staircase came back at £4,450, £4,990 and £5,400.
How this tracker works
Every figure above was read from a source page we can link to, captured on 20 August 2026, and graded: A for a seller’s own published price, B for a dealer’s published price for a brand, C for a named organisation’s benchmark, D for an individual buyer’s reported quote. We publish no figure we cannot source, we do not present dealer or benchmark figures as a brand’s own price, and where a source page is undated or old we say so. Where sources contradict each other, we show the contradiction instead of resolving it, because the contradictions are evidence of how this market prices.
We update this page monthly: re-checking every brand’s own pages, the main dealer rate cards and new procurement notices, and logging every change with its old figure, new figure and date. The full dataset behind this page, all 290 datapoints with source URLs and verbatim quotes, is available as a downloadable CSV.
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Frequently asked questions
What does a stairlift cost in the UK in 2026?
Published prices captured in August 2026 run from £1,350 to £5,561 for a new straight stairlift and £2,695 to £10,000 for a new curved one, installed prices in most cases. Most homes with a straight staircase pay in the £2,000 to £3,500 band; curved installations usually land between £4,000 and £7,000. Reconditioned straight lifts are published from £650 to £2,500. See our stairlift prices guide for what drives the differences.
Why won’t stairlift companies publish their prices?
Most manufacturers say a price depends on a survey of your staircase, which is partly true, curved rails are custom-built. But TK Home Solutions publishes model-level from-prices, and installers such as Halton, Prestige and 1st Choice publish full rate cards, so it is clearly possible. The industry’s own code of practice says clear pricing should be given on websites.
Is £3,867 the real average price of a stairlift?
That number comes from a Which? survey of owners with fieldwork in December 2022, where it was the average paid for a new stairlift. It is widely republished in 2026, sometimes labelled as 2025 research, but the underlying data is from 2022.
Do councils get stairlifts cheaper than the public?
Councils buy through competitive frameworks and their servicing costs are far lower (Oxford City Council’s own stock works out near £63 per lift per year against the £150 to £300 quoted to householders). But no award notice we read discloses a per-unit price, so a direct purchase comparison cannot honestly be made from public data.
Can I negotiate a stairlift price?
Often, yes. In Which?’s owner survey, 32% of new-lift buyers negotiated a reduction. Stannah is the stated exception; it told Which? it does not allow price negotiation. Get at least three written quotes and compare inclusions, not just totals.
How often is this page updated?
Monthly. Every figure carries the date we captured it, and changes between editions are logged with the old and new figures. First edition: 20 August 2026.
Sources
Brand sites, captured 20 Aug 2026: TK Home Solutions prices · Age UK Mobility rental · Age UK Mobility costs · Companion cost article · Acorn FAQ · Handicare prices page · Otolift pricing page.
Installer rate cards: Halton · Prestige · 1st Choice · UK Stairlifts · Dolphin.
Benchmarks and consumer bodies: Which? buying guide (Dec 2022 fieldwork) · Which? investigation, 2019 · Which? survey, 2020 · BHTA Code of Practice (2024 update) · RiDC mystery shop (2017).
Public sector: Glasgow award notice · Fife award notice · Oxford City Council lift contract report · Redcar & Cleveland provider guide (June 2023) · Companies House 04728243.
Prices are only half the picture, because a price with no specification beside it cannot be compared. Our stairlift model specifications table records what each maker publishes about the lift itself.