Dear Jane McLarty The platform lift works only if you are addressing a single floor - and costs in the order of 16,000 for a single floor. The stair crawler options tend not to be too well liked by disabled people - worth getting the opinion of other users of the building - there are lots in cupboars, so a great second hand market in them! Ideally the lift that goes in in the first place should be a high enough specification to avoid frequent break downs. This sounds like an expensive lift - how many floors it is doing. Your average three storey hydraulic lift is anything between 30-50k - so is there some exaggerating going on? Give us more to go on and we can be a bit more accurate in the options. Regards James Holmes-Siedle, Director All Clear Designs Limited 3rd Floor, Cooper House 2 Michael Road London SW6 2ER Tel (0171) 384 2950 Fax (0171) 384 2951 email [log in to unmask] Cserve 100451,3571 http://www.allclear.co.uk/index.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%