Residential Shafted Home Elevators
SHC EZ6 Home Elevator
The SHC EZ6 is the flagship of Staying Home Corporation’s residential elevator line — a true in-hoistway home elevator with fully automatic operation: press the button once and ride, just like a commercial elevator. It’s also the roomiest of the family. The standard car measures 42″ wide by 41″ deep with a 76″ ceiling and a 36″-wide car door opening, carries 500 pounds, and travels up to 31 feet serving as many as 5 floors at 15 feet per minute. SHC also builds a compact version, the EZ6C, with a 34″ by 33″ car for tighter hoistways. Like every SHC elevator, the EZ6 is full-time battery powered — two batteries continuously charged from a standard 120-volt outlet — so it keeps running during power outages.
Even though it lives in a hoistway, the EZ6 skips the construction baggage of a traditional home elevator: no pit and no machine room are required, and the minimum overhead is just 86 inches, which makes it practical to retrofit into existing homes — SHC specifically points to beach-front and multi-story properties. The integrated sliding door rides with the car, keeping you enclosed while the elevator is moving, and the safety package is serious: Honeywell door interlocks at every landing, an enhanced gate/bypass monitor that keeps the car from leaving the landing if anything enters the space between the hoistway door and the car, a pit switch, slack cable device, emergency stop and alarm, and a telephone in the car. Front, side, pass-through, and 90-degree entry configurations are all available, and every unit is built to the ASME A17.1 Section 5.3 residential elevator standard.
Staying Home Corporation builds the EZ6 in Harrisonville, Missouri — just south of Kansas City, right inside our service area — so factory support and parts are never far away. Home Accessibility Solutions is a family-owned dealer, and our installers are licensed elevator mechanics with factory training. The same people who measure your home at the free consultation are the ones who frame up the plan with your contractor, install your EZ6, and service it for years afterward. Per SHC, the EZ6 can fit some wheelchairs — sizes vary, so we confirm your chair’s dimensions and weight during the free in-home assessment before recommending it.
Model overview
Why choose the Staying Home EZ6 Elevator
The Staying Home EZ6 is a true in-hoistway home elevator and the flagship of Staying Home Corporation’s residential line. What sets it apart is fully automatic operation: press the button once and ride to your floor, just like a commercial elevator. It is also the roomiest car in the SHC family — 42 inches wide by 41 inches deep with a 76-inch ceiling — carrying 500 pounds, traveling up to 31 feet, and serving as many as five floors.
The EZ6 fits homes a traditional elevator cannot. It needs no pit and no machine room, and the minimum overhead is just 86 inches, so it can be retrofitted into an existing house. You choose from front, side, pass-through, or 90-degree entry, and when the full-size hoistway will not fit, the compact EZ6C car is built for tighter spaces. Options include clear vision wall panels, a floor-to-ceiling enclosure, automatic homing, key fob control, and custom powder-coat colors.
Press once and ride
Some home elevators require you to hold the button for the whole trip. The EZ6 works like a commercial elevator: press your floor once and it takes you there. Wireless RF hall stations at every landing call the car with no control wiring needed, and an optional automatic homing feature sends the elevator back to the floor you choose after each trip, so it is always waiting where you want it. See it on the manufacturer’s site →
Keeps running when the power goes out
The EZ6 is full-time battery powered. Two 12-volt batteries are continuously charged by a 2-amp smart charger plugged into a standard 120-volt outlet, and the elevator runs off those batteries all the time. When a storm knocks out the power, the elevator keeps working — no one gets stranded upstairs waiting for the lights to come back on.
A serious safety package
Honeywell door interlocks at every landing keep the hoistway doors locked unless the car is there. An enhanced gate/bypass monitor watches the space between the hoistway door and the car and stops the elevator from leaving the landing if anything enters that gap — meeting the ASME A17.1 (2016) door-gap rule. A pit switch, slack cable device, emergency stop, alarm, and in-car telephone round it out.
Built to retrofit into existing homes
The EZ6 skips the construction baggage of a traditional elevator: no pit, no machine room, and just 86 inches of overhead above the top landing. A front-opening EZ6 needs a finished hoistway of 48 by 55 inches, and the compact EZ6C fits hoistways starting around 40 by 47 inches. That makes it practical for existing homes, not just new construction.
Made just up the road
Staying Home Corporation builds the EZ6 in Harrisonville, Missouri — just south of Kansas City and right inside our service area. That means factory support, parts, and answers are never far away. It also means the drive system, from the dual winding cable drums to the aircraft-grade drive cables, comes from a manufacturer we can reach directly whenever your elevator needs attention.
Covered by two warranties
Staying Home Corporation covers the EZ6 with a parts-only limited warranty to the original purchaser: 3 years on the drive train, 2 years on other parts, and 1 year on batteries. Labor is not included in the manufacturer’s warranty — that is where our own 6-month workmanship warranty picks up. If our work was not done right, we come back and fix it at no cost to you — unless the issue was an act of God, user error, or misuse of the machine.
Family-owned · Wichita, Kansas
From our family to your home
Working with us starts with a free in-home assessment. We measure your space, listen to how you live, and give you a straight answer with a written quote — no pressure. Our installers are licensed elevator mechanics with factory training, and the same people who measure your home install your EZ6 and service it for years afterward. The EZ6 is built in Harrisonville, Missouri, right inside our service area, so factory support and parts are never far away. Call (316) 361-6220.
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What comes standard
Included on every unit we install — no add-on cost.
What comes standard
- Fully automatic operation — press the button once and ride to your floor
- Integrated sliding car door with clear vision panels — rides with the car
- Full-time battery power: two 12V batteries charged by a 2-amp smart charger from a standard 120 VAC outlet
- 36-inch-wide car door opening (except on 90-degree car applications)
- Fold-down car seat
- Slimline telephone inside the car
- Automatic recessed LED car lighting with silver bezel
- RAL 9002 gray-white powder-coated finish
- Car operating panel with floor buttons, key switch, emergency stop, alarm, and diagnostic indicator
- Wireless RF flush-mounted hall stations at every landing — no control wiring required
- Limit switches at each stop and final limit at the top
- Honeywell door interlocks on car door switches
- Enhanced gate/bypass monitor — keeps the car at the landing if anything enters the door gap
- Pit switch and slack cable safety device
- Dual winding cable drums with two 1/4-inch galvanized aircraft drive cables on extruded aluminum rails
- Built to ASME A17.1 Section 5.3 residential elevator standards
Specifications
Everything your builder and installer will ask about — and everything we confirm in person at your free in-home assessment.
Configurations
How the doors open and where they sit on the cab — diagrams straight from the manufacturer’s planning materials. We confirm the right configuration for your floor plan at your in-home assessment.
Entry configurations
Front entry
The standard configuration with a 36-inch-wide car door opening.
Side entry
The car door on the side of the cab to suit the floor plan.
Pass-through
Openings on opposite sides so you enter one side and exit the other.
90-degree entry
Openings on adjacent sides; 90-degree cars use a 33-inch door opening.
Car sizes
EZ6 full-size car
42 inches wide by 41 inches deep with a 76-inch ceiling – the roomiest in the SHC line.
EZ6C compact car
34 inches wide by 33 inches deep for tighter hoistways, starting around 40 x 47 inches finished.
Entry configurations — diagrams
Hoistway plan overview
Gallery
The unit and its finishes.
Documents
Manufacturer brochures, owner’s manuals, and planning guides — yours to download.
Brochures & Product Guides
See the product, options and finishes at a glance — the best starting point for homeowners.
Owner’s Manuals & Care
How to operate and care for your unit day to day — for owners after installation.
Contractors
Working on the home? These are the technical documents your trades will ask for — electrical requirements, floor cut-outs, framing, and installation planning. Questions? Our licensed elevator mechanics are one call away at (316) 361-6220.
Planning Guides
The complete planning reference — dimensions, structural loads, electrical and code requirements. For builders and architects.
Hoistway & Construction Drawings
Dimensioned drawings your general contractor uses to frame the opening and prep the site.
Electrical
Power requirements and wiring schematics — hand these to your electrician.
Optional upgrades
Ways to make this model fit your home and your routine even better. We price any of these into your written quote — just ask.
Optional upgradeEZ6C Compact Car
Same automatic in-hoistway elevator in a smaller 34″ x 33″ car — for homes where the full-size 42″ x 41″ EZ6 hoistway won’t fit. Hoistways start at roughly 40″ x 47″ finished.
Optional upgradeClear Vision Wall Panels
Swap the solid car walls for clear vision panels so you can see where you’re going — a favorite for open installations with SHC’s floor-to-ceiling enclosure.
Optional upgradeFloor-to-Ceiling Enclosure with Clear Vision Panels
SHC’s own enclosure system stands in for a framed drywall hoistway — a bright, open look without building a traditional shaft.
Optional upgradeAutomatic Homing
The elevator automatically returns to the floor you choose after each trip, so it’s always waiting where you want it.
Optional upgradeKey Switch on Hall Stations & RF Key Fob
Control who can call the elevator with key switches on the hall stations, and add a wireless key fob to call or send the car from anywhere nearby.
Optional upgradeCustom Colors
The standard finish is RAL 9002 gray-white, but SHC offers custom powder-coat colors to match your home.
You’re covered twice
Manufacturer warranty
Staying Home Corporation covers the EZ6 with a parts-only limited warranty to the original purchaser: the drive train is under warranty for 3 years (defined by SHC as the motor, gear, track, and steel cable), other parts for 2 years, and batteries for 1 year. Labor is not included in the manufacturer’s warranty — that’s exactly where our own workmanship warranty picks up.
Our workmanship warranty
Every installation also carries our 6-month workmanship warranty, on top of the manufacturer’s warranty. If our installation needs an adjustment, we come back and make it right at no cost to you. We ask clients to allow five to ten business days for a return trip, though it is often much sooner. The warranty covers our workmanship; it does not cover acts of God, user error, or misuse of the equipment.
Is the SHC EZ6 Home Elevator right for your home?
The only way to know is a free in-home assessment. We measure, we listen, and you get a straight answer with a written quote — no pressure.
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