Why is it that architects who have once worked with a Cibes Lift screw-driven home lift (Screw Lift or Screw Driven Lift) almost never go back to any other system? It makes no difference whether the brief calls for a home lift, lift for the elderly or a wheelchair platform lift in a residential project, an office building or a shopping mall.
When designing a home, the architect has to treat available space as the first factor in choosing a home lift, then measure the room or the area where the lift will go to make sure it is a proper fit. What is also worth knowing is the key difference between screw-driven lifts and other technologies such as hydraulic and traction lifts — a difference that consistently delivers better performance. Here are the three main reasons we hear most often!
Screw-driven home lift, space-saving, Classic model
1. Screw-Driven Lifts Win on Space Efficiency
The biggest difference between a commercial building and a home is that a home rarely has 4 square metres or more sitting empty — and where it does, that space is usually already in use.
Every square centimetre counts, and this is exactly where the screw-driven home lift stands apart from every other type. It saves space: the smallest Cibes Lift model measures just 1 square metre, yet delivers up to 73% usable standing area inside the car. The screw-driven home lift is engineered to give the customer maximum comfort, without losing space to a machine room, to the swing of a sliding door, or to any other inefficiency.
Screw-driven lift, no machine room, installed in just 5 – 7 days
2. A Screw Lift That Blends Perfectly Into the Home
Not every type of lift can be customised. Traditional home lifts do offer plenty of options — different control panels, ceilings, cabin finishes and so on — but most of them still follow the design standards of the industry.
Stainless steel, however, is the primary material of those lifts, and it is not a colour — it will not suit the design of every home. The doors are the hardest part of all: with a traction lift it is extremely difficult to move away from stainless steel sliding doors to anything that matches the look of the house.
The screw-driven home lift from Cibes, by contrast, comes with a wide choice of premium powder coating colours.
And the customisation does not stop there. From the design of the control panel to leather flooring, wood finishes, imported US textured wall panels — not to mention beautiful RGBW colour-changing LED strip lighting. It is clear that the screw-driven lift offers far more bespoke options to suit a home interior.
A screw lift styled to match the house, as if it had always been there
3. Screw Lifts Are So Stable They Need Fewer Service Visits
This is a big issue that tends to be overlooked until it is too late. Traction and hydraulic lifts are complex machines that require continuous maintenance — in most cases around once a month. Fewer service visits simply means a more stable lift system.
For a homeowner with no time to spare, that is a real burden: a full day with engineers in the house, and you have to look after them, just to keep the home lift running properly.
The screw-driven home lift, on the other hand, was designed for residential use from the outset, and with Cibes EcoSilent technology it needs servicing only 1-2 times a year.
Safety is held to the highest international standards, with TÜV SÜD Certification from a world-leading inspection and certification provider, together with ISO 9001, the internationally recognised Quality Management System (QMS) standard , and certification from LiftInstituut, Europe’s leading authority specialising in lift certification.
A screw-driven home lift, customised exactly the way you want it
In Summary: Why Architects Trust and Choose Screw-Driven Lifts
Architects who specialise in renovation know there is nothing worse than…
- the client wants a lift, but there is too little space to install one
- the client wants a lift, but it means major structural work and high costs — digging a huge pit where the lift will go, building concrete walls to form a shaft, and cutting through the roof for a machine room
- the client wants a lift whose design fits the existing house or matches its style
Cibes screw-driven technology — a lift with no machine room — avoids all of these problems. There is no pit, and some models come with their own shaft, so the lift fits into an existing structure without any fuss. It can even go outside the house: an outdoor lift, or a lift up to the rooftop. We have installed home lifts in every one of these situations!
