Wall lIft InstallatIon
HandI-MOve - InfOrMaTIOn fOr arcHITecTs & InsTallers
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1. on the wall
1.1. Installation instructions
It is better to carry out the horizontal installation of the lift based on a small sketch of the space in which the wall
lift is being placed:
• The positions of the planned starting and finishing points should be marked on the sketch, in other words:
location of the swivel hook at the starting and finishing point. These points can be defined during preparatory
tests with a mobile lift.
• draw a line connecting both points.
• draw a perpendicular line through the middle of this line.The spot where this line intersects the wall is the
place where the wall lift should be installed.
The set-up of the lift arm needs to equal the radius of the resulting circle and has to be defined between 37.4 inch
/ 95.00 cm and 51.18 inch / 130.00 cm . If the farthest point is rather high up and if the arm is not positioned
horizontally but rather high, the radius will be considerably reduced, as shown in the table below. If that is the
case, it might be preferable not to follow the above mentioned method implicitly, but to move the wall lift a few
more centimetres in the direction of the highest position.
Distance from wall to swivel hook
Position
lowest
[inch/cm]
horizontal
[inch/cm]
highest
[inch/cm]
1
36.54 / 92.80
37.4 / 95.00
33.46 / 85.00
2
37.01 / 94.00
39.37 / 100.00
35.24 / 89.50
3
38.86 / 98.70
41.34 / 105.00
36.97 / 93.90
4
40.67 / 103.30
43.31 / 110.00
38.7 / 98.30
5
42.52 / 108.00
45.28 / 115.00
40.43 / 102.70
6
44.33 / 112.60
47.24 / 120.00
42.17 / 107.10
7
46.18 / 117.30
49.21 / 125.00
43.9 / 111.50
8
47.99 / 121.90
51.18 / 130.00
45.63 / 115.90
Table: Horizontal range of the arm in inches. According to the stretch of the arm, positions 1 (shortest) through 8 (longest),
this table gives you the horizontal distance from the wall to the swivel hook for three positions of the arm: in the lowest
position, the horizontal position and the highest position.
The lifting height that can be reached in this way varies from 17.32 inch / 44.00 cm (retracted arm) to 24.8 inch
/ 63.00 cm (stretched arm) respectively.
It is thus of utmost importance to place the wall lift at the correct height.
To determine the correct height of the wallplate (upper fixing screws) you may proceed as follows: look for the
lowest point that has to be reached when transferring. The most common heights are :
• Bottom of the bath: 3.94 inch / 10.00 cm
• Bed: 17.72 inch / 45.00 cm
• Wheelchair: 19.69 inch / 50.00 cm
This point needs to be reached in the lowest arm position, otherwise the person just floats above it.
