Expert Stairlift Installation in Berkeley, CA

We live in a 1911 brown-shingle in North Berkeley and the original redwood banister has hammered-copper hardware that you cannot replace. The All American installer brought softwood-rated brackets, mounted the rail into the treads without touching the banister or the copper, and the chair folds so flat at the top you walk right past it. My book club meets upstairs — nobody mentioned the lift until I pointed it out at the third meeting.

Our 1926 Tudor in Claremont has a quarter-turn at the top of the stairs with a stained-glass window that two other companies said they'd have to bracket through. All American scanned the staircase, fabricated a curved rail that threads the turn without touching the glass or the plaster, and my husband — a retired physicist who wanted the torque specs — said the engineering was better than what he saw in his lab.

My mother has 18 exterior stone steps from the street to her front door in Thousand Oaks. She'd been entering through the garage for two years to avoid them. All American installed a weather-sealed outdoor rail with stainless hardware — she used the front door the day they finished and cried. First time in two years. The fog and rain haven't caused a single issue since December.

I scheduled a knee replacement at Kaiser Oakland and needed the lift working before I came home. All American measured Monday, installed Wednesday, and I rode it from the front door to the bedroom seven days after surgery. My PT said it was the fastest return to independent living she'd seen that year. The carpet mount was clean — you can't even tell where they bolted through.

My father uses a power wheelchair and we thought he'd have to leave the West Berkeley Victorian he's lived in since 1979. All American installed an indoor platform lift with yellow safety edges — he rolls onto it in his chair and rides to the second floor. He slept in his own bedroom the first time in 14 months. His OT from the Center for Elders' Independence signed off on the install. That's not a stairlift company — that's the reason he's still in his home.

The 1918 Elmwood bungalow has Douglas fir treads that split if you look at them wrong. The installer knew that before I said a word — brought wide-flange brackets for softwood, cleared the clinker-brick wall by three inches, and my father went upstairs to his study for the first time in six months. A retired civil engineer watching every bolt go in, and he had zero complaints. That tells you the quality.