Elevator Service Company installs the Cibes Ascenda, a shaftless home elevator that opens up both floors of your home in days, not months, with no shaft, no pit, and no machine room to build around. Dedicated to serving homeowners across Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
You already love your home. You just can’t get to all of it anymore, and a stairlift can feel like it’s announcing a problem instead of solving one. The Ascenda replaces that entire conversation. It’s a real elevator, cut into a single floor opening in your existing two-story home, carrying you, a wheelchair, or a loaded laundry basket between floors instead of just you and your feet. When it’s parked at the lower landing, a safety hatch covers the opening so your upstairs floor stays fully walkable.
None of that requires a shaft, a pit, or a machine room. The Ascenda runs on a screw drive housed in its own mast, accessed by a hatch or a half-landing mezzanine gate, and it rests flush with the lower floor since it needs zero inches of pit. Elevator Service Company sizes it in four cab configurations, S, M, L, and XL, with an all-glass cabin, automatic saloon doors, a mirror ceiling, and soft LED lighting included as standard, and installs it in days, not months.
Every project is different, and the right cab size depends on your floor opening and headroom. Download the full spec sheet and technical drawings below, or bring them to your site evaluation so we can talk through exactly what fits.
Find out exactly how the Ascenda fits your floor plan before you commit to anything.
Elevator Service Company handles every phase of your Ascenda installation with the same in-house team, from the first site visit through state inspection. We confirm headroom, floor opening size, and electrical placement on-site, then walk you through permitting before any work begins. Once site preparation is complete, most Ascenda installations are ride-ready within days, and for new construction, your architect can plan a compact floor opening and a 230V stub-out during framing instead of building around a full hoistway.
“The technicians working for Elevator Service Company were excellent in every way. They knew exactly what they were doing and did it well. They were timely, tidy, professional, pleasant and most importantly thoroughly knowledgeable in all aspects of elevator installation.”
– Susan
Elevator Service Company is Connecticut’s largest independent elevator contractor, licensed in Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, and backed directly by Cibes Lift Group, so the technicians sizing and installing your Ascenda are working from the manufacturer’s own specifications. We handle the full project in-house, from the initial floor plan review to state inspection and every service call after, with no subcontractor crew showing up on installation day that you haven’t already met.
“We recently built a new home and included a 3 stop elevator in the design. Everyone we worked with at ESCO, from the design phase through delivery, installation and follow-up service have been very helpful, cooperative and highly competent. We’re very happy with the end result and recommend ESCO for anyone looking for a residential elevator.”
– Andy
Yes. The Ascenda travels through a single floor opening and rests flush with the lower floor, requiring zero inches of pit and no separate machine room since the drive is housed in the cab’s own mast. There’s no hoistway construction involved anywhere in the installation.
Yes. The XL configuration is our wheelchair accessible home elevator option, with a straight-through door built to carry a wheelchair user comfortably, plus the fold-down seat and hold-to-run controls that come standard on every Ascenda size.
A stairlift only carries a person up your existing staircase and can’t accommodate a wheelchair or move anything else between floors. The Ascenda is a full elevator cab that carries a wheelchair user, groceries, or laundry between both floors, and closes behind a safety hatch when it’s not in use so your upstairs floor stays walkable.
Yes, and it’s often simpler than retrofitting. Your architect specs a compact floor opening and a 230V circuit stub-out during framing, and Elevator Service Company installs the Ascenda near the end of construction rather than the framing dictating a full hoistway from day one.