Garage Parking Lifts

Are you looking to maximize parking or storage capability? Have you considered a garage parking lift? Potomac Garage Solutions has been offering a wide variety of garage parking lift options for many years throughout the Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC areas with expert attention to detail, craftsmanship and professionalism.

The tips for shopping for paring lifts

Parking lifts are incredibly helpful tools to have around your home, especially if you have several cars and you need some additional parking space in your garage. However, like just about every tool you’ll purchase, you need some pointers to help you make the best out of this;

You get more with a smaller footprint

If you have a residential parking lift that takes too much of the space available in your garage, then there really is no point. The smaller the footprint of the lift, the more utility you’ll be able to get. it’s possible that wide steel posts and columns look awkward in a place where a homeowner’s association doesn’t approve. They also restrict options and might not be the best choice for garaged that don’t have much in terms of space.

Take it easy with installation

When shopping for residential parking lifts, it’s very important that you call a company to help you out. Your installation company will be able to help install the lift easily, thus ensuring that you don’t see any mishaps along the way. For all their strength, parking lifts can be rather delicate, and you need to be very careful with them.

Make sure that you get safety locks

For modern parking lifts, automatic devices have become the most essential safety feature. Most of the parking lifts you see will have variable height locking positions, with each engaging automatically as the ramp on the parking lift goes higher.

Essentially, these safety locks help in two primary ways- in the event that there’s a terrible failure on the load-holding component, they ensure that the lift doesn’t fall. They also provide various height park positions, which will be able to take care of vehicles of different heights.

Of course, there are options that don’t have any chains or cables, which means that they don’t have any risk of failure. Still, the requirement for safety locks is a very important one.

Don’t confuse them with maintenance lifts

It goes without saying, but it should be said anyways. The only reason for you to get a residential parking lift is to create extra parking space, and not anything else. When you start to use them as maintenance lifts, you risk putting really heavy stuff on there, and they could be detrimental in the long run.

Working around weight capacity

Here’s one thing you should know about weight capacity; it’s not the final deal breaker. Essentially, if you have a vehicle that weight 7,000 lbs. and you get a parking lift that weighs about 6,000 lbs., it just means that you shouldn’t raise the vehicle with the parking lift.

As soon as you determine that a parking lift can accommodate weight capacity, however, there are several elements that will need to be determined. When a manufacturer starts to tout the weight capacity as opposed to things like drive-through space and visibility when collapsed, make sure to do your research before getting that lift.

For a free garage makeover consultation with one of our experts, or for more information about our garage parking lift services, contact Potomac Garage Solutions today at 240-650-2622.