No lift, no problem. Stair climbing delivery gets medical and heavy equipment up and down stairs where there's no lift or the lift is too small, using powered stair climbers and trained crews. In December 2022 a team took a 280 kg, 47U rack up to the ninth floor in London. We work from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire.
Plenty of buildings have stairs and no usable lift. That's where heavy kit gets stuck: a rack, a scanner, a safe, a vending machine.
We plan the route first, then use the right machine for the load. This page covers both clinical sites and offices.
If it's a whole department or a hospital job, see medical equipment transport. If it's one high value item to one room, see white glove delivery.
In December 2022 we took a 280 kg rack up to the ninth floor of a client's new London office with our PowerMate stair climber. The stairs left 2.5 cm either side of the handrails, and the landings were tight, so the machine had to be taken off and put back on at every turn.
The procedure we follow for delivering clinical equipment, including the stair climber and restricted access steps, and the records we leave you. Use it to plan an installation or as the standard in a tender. Free PDF, no form.
The Room of Choice Clinical Delivery SOP is a standard operating procedure for delivering medical and scientific equipment to its final point of use: the ward, theatre, laboratory or treatment room, not the loading bay.
It's moving a heavy or awkward load up or down stairs with a powered stair climber, where a lift isn't available or won't take it. The crew checks the route, protects it and moves the load under control.
With a powered stair climber that fits the load, rated restraints and trained people. A racked server, a scanner or a vending machine each need a different set-up.
We check the weight and the route first. The machines are listed above.
The Stanley SC620 carries 310 kg on stairs. The PowerMate M1 carries 204 kg on stairs with one person and 454 kg with two. Whether a load can go depends on the route as well as the machine, so we survey first.
Yes. We take clinical and laboratory equipment to the room of choice, protect the route and follow the site's infection control rules.
Calibration and commissioning stay with the manufacturer or the trust. See medical equipment transport.
We cover London from our base in Fleet, with our own crews and machines, so there's no depot in London. In December 2022 we took a 280 kg rack up to the ninth floor of a London building.
We don't hire machines out. We send the machine with trained people and a plan, and we take it to wherever the job is.
We check the width, landings and turns before we quote. If the load won't go as a whole, we say so. Sometimes a rack is stripped and moved in pieces, or kit is lifted by another route.
Tell us what's moving, its weight, the number of flights and the dates.
We have your details. Someone from the team will read it and come back to you by phone or email.
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