Your power chair can take you through the whole neighborhood, the grocery store and the park. But it cannot climb the four steps to your own front door. Every time you come home, someone has to help you out of the chair, steady you up the stairs and then wrestle the heavy chair or scooter up behind you.

It is exhausting for everyone, and it is dangerous. One slip on those steps can mean a fall, a broken hip and a hospital stay. So you go out less, stay home more and start to feel like a prisoner in the house you love, all because of a few porch steps that never used to matter.

The Mac's Vertical Home Lift PL-50 ends the struggle at the door. Roll onto the non-skid platform in your wheelchair or scooter, press the key-lock constant-pressure switch, and the lift carries you smoothly up to 50 inches while you stay seated. It holds 750 pounds, enough for virtually any power chair and rider, and a 12-inch automatic folding ramp and 42-inch handrails keep every ride steady. It runs on ordinary household current, works in temperatures from minus 30 to 120 degrees, includes a manual hand crank for power outages, and is built in America by a family company with a five-year limited warranty. Come and go on your own schedule again, with no one lifting anything. Call (800) 733-1818 for a free in-home measurement.

Your home has two levels, and your power chair can only use one of them. The bedroom is upstairs, or the garage sits a full story below the living area, or the main floor is reached only by a long flight of steps. Every day you are forced to choose which part of your own home you are allowed to live in.

Some people give up the second floor entirely and move their bed into the dining room. Others leave their scooter in the garage and struggle up the stairs on unsteady legs. Remodeling for a home elevator can cost a small fortune and take months of construction, while the stairs stay just as steep as ever. Your own home should not be off-limits to you.

The Mac's Extended Vertical Lift takes you between floors while you stay in your chair. Available as the EVL-107, EVL-121, EVL-134 and EVL-149, it rises from about nine to more than twelve feet on a 32-by-48-inch platform rated for 750 pounds, perfect for second-story decks, garage-to-house entries and floor-to-floor travel. An optional ADA package adds a safety pan, solid side panels, interlocked gates, call-and-send switches and an emergency stop for commercial-grade protection. It runs on household current, is built in the USA by Mac's, and Mac's has even built custom lifts with as much as 168 inches of rise. Live on every level of your home again. Call (800) 733-1818 for a free consultation.

You need a lift you can count on every single day, not just when the weather is mild and the power is on. Older platform lifts shake, clank and break down without warning, and when one fails you are stranded outside your own door, waiting for someone to come and help you get home.

Unreliable equipment turns independence into anxiety. You start to wonder whether the lift will work before every trip, worry about power outages during monsoon storms and dread the next service call. A lift is supposed to set you free, not leave you guessing. You deserve equipment that simply works, day after day, year after year.

Harmar's Highlander II is engineered for confidence. Its Steady Drive ACME screw rotates 75 percent slower than the competition for a remarkably smooth, quiet ride, while the SmartSense board monitors motor temperature, cycles and battery status, and the four-light Guardian System tells you at a glance that the lift is ready. Press the oversized Big Blue Paddle and ride up to 14 feet with 750 pounds of capacity, with an optional ReadyUPS battery backup providing at least five full cycles in an outage. For simpler jobs up to 4 or 6 feet, the VPLX-DC runs entirely on four onboard batteries with plug-and-play wiring, so it simply plugs into a standard GFCI outlet. Both are assembled in the USA and installed by our own technicians. Call (800) 733-1818 and ride with confidence.