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Owners shop the $18,995 pneumatic home elevator installed special, then ask: “Can we do glass instead of the tube?” That sounds like a finish upgrade. It is a cab invoice and more set hours. The cheap special is an acrylic through-floor tube. Glass is a different ticket on the same house.
Open the free home elevator bid calculatorOn a typical two-stop through-floor cheap special — $52 wage, 32% burden, 15% overhead, 20% target margin, ten miles — acrylic bids $28,108.09 (walk-away $22,486.47). A standard enclosed cab adds $2,834.17. Wood-panel adds $5,044.01. Glass adds $8,354.52 and bids $36,462.61 (walk-away $29,170.09). Those add-ons are the cab kits. They do not change the drive or the shaft.
| Cab | Hours | Bid | vs acrylic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acrylic / vacuum tube | 50.4 h | $28,108.09 | — |
| Standard enclosed | 52.9 h | $30,942.27 | +$2,834.17 |
| Wood-panel | 54.9 h | $33,152.11 | +$5,044.01 |
| Glass cab | 56.4 h | $36,462.61 | +$8,354.52 |
If they already shopped the tube and you send the acrylic $28,108.09 on a glass-cab ask, you sit $1,062.00 under the glass walk-away of $29,170.09. Matching the published $18,995 pneumatic dump on that glass job loses about $10,175. The same glass add-on ($8,354.52) shows up on a hydraulic shaft house — the cab ticket does not shrink because the shaft got more expensive.
Open the home elevator bid calculator, enter the house you are standing in, and read the four-cab table. It uses starting cab kits so a typed acrylic invoice does not leak into the glass row. Nothing is uploaded.
This is the same arithmetic as how much to charge to install a home elevator. Customer already bought the unit? See should I install a customer-supplied home elevator. Hospital discharge this week? See should I expedite a home elevator for hospital discharge. It is not an elevator specification, a structural design, a building-code determination, or a catalog — it is the walk-away number on each cab.
No. The cheap special is an acrylic through-floor tube. A glass cab is more hours and a cab invoice. On a typical two-stop pneumatic cheap special — $52 wage, 32% burden, 15% overhead, 20% target margin — acrylic bids about $28,108. Glass on the same house bids about $36,463, an $8,355 upgrade.
Using the calculator's starting cab kits, glass adds about $8,355 to the installed bid over acrylic on the same house. A standard enclosed cab adds about $2,834. Wood-panel adds about $5,044. Those add-ons are the cab ticket — they do not change the shaft or the drive.
You eat the cab invoice and the extra set hours. Matching the $28,108 acrylic bid on a glass-cab cheap special sits about $1,062 under the glass walk-away of $29,170. Matching the published $18,995 pneumatic dump on that glass job loses about $10,175.