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Bruno VPL-3153/3175 Vertical Platform Lift

Priced for your home, installation included

A few porch or deck steps can be the hardest part of getting home in a wheelchair. Bruno platform lifts, often called wheelchair lifts or vertical platform lifts, give mobility scooter and powerchair users an alternative to navigating entryway or deck steps, and the Bruno VPL-3153 and VPL-3175 are Bruno's residential models.

Installed and serviced in Georgia
In business since 1990
750 lb rated load
VPL-3153: up to 53” rise
VPL-3175: up to 75” rise
AC or battery (B) models

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Brand: Bruno

Type: Vertical Platform Lift

SKU: VPL-3153

About the Bruno VPL-3153/3175 Vertical Platform Lift

Both have a 750 lb rated load for 1 passenger with a mobility device. The VPL-3153 covers 11” to 53” floor to floor, and the VPL-3175 covers 28” to 75”. Choose the AC-powered versions, or the VPL-3153B and VPL-3175B, which run on batteries. Bruno says the battery option will continue to work in a power outage and provide several round trips without recharging.

As the lift travels upward, the platform ramp folds to stop a mobility device from rolling backward; it is a 16” self-lowering ramp. Standard controls are up and down rocker switch or paddle controls with a key switch, plus a red emergency stop switch. Options include a platform gate, a landing gate, a landing call/send station, a platform gate operator and a power assisted operator.

The lift can be installed indoors or outdoors and is made in the USA. Bruno lists a concrete pad as required for a proper approach, and electricity may need to be run to the lift or its battery charger.

Custom Mobility installs vertical platform lifts in Georgia with its own technicians, and installation and service are in Georgia. Tell us the height of your steps and we will help you choose the right model.

Platform Lifts We Have Installed

Photos from our own jobs. Not every photo shows this model.

Harmar vertical platform lift beside a deck, its enclosure door open onto the platform
Harmar outdoor vertical platform lift running up the side of a raised deck
Harmar vertical platform lift call station with a key switch and up and down buttons on a post

How The Work Happens

Five steps. You can stop at any of them, and nothing is charged until you have said yes to a written scope.

You tell us what is difficult
Not what product you think you need. The stairs, the front step, the bath, getting into the car. Working out the product is our job.
A call, not a sales pitch
We come out and measure
On site, at your address, free. We check the space, the power, and the structure, and we talk through how the room actually gets used.
Free, and no obligation
You get it in writing
An itemized scope and a price, with the lead time stated honestly. The price you agree to is the price of the job. Take as long as you like with it.
The price does not move
Our technicians install it
Our own people, not a subcontractor, who stay until everyone who has to operate it can operate it confidently.
Our own crews
We service it afterward
The company that installed it is the company that maintains it. You are not handed to somebody else once the invoice clears.
Same company, years later

Installation and service in Georgia

Priced for your home, installation included. Installation and service are in Georgia.

Installed by our own technicians, from our base in Athens.
We service what we sell. The person who comes back is from the same company as the person who installed it.
Preventive maintenance agreements are available on anything we install.

Answer a few questions about your home and see your price, installation included.

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Service and repair

Key specs

Rated load: 750 lb (340 kg) maximum
Passengers: 1 passenger with mobility device
Applications: residential, indoors, outdoors
Floor-to-floor (VPL-3153): 11” min, 53” max
Floor-to-floor (VPL-3175): 28” min, 75” max
Landings: 2-Stop
Speed (AC units): 9 ft/min maximum
Speed (DC battery units): 10 ft/min maximum
AC power: 120 VAC, 60 Hz, 8A maximum input
Lower ramp: 16” self-lowering
Weight (VPL-3153): 656 lb
Weight (VPL-3175): 713 lb
Weight (VPL-3153B): 665 lb without batteries
Weight (VPL-3175B): 718 lb without batteries
Battery upgrade: 34 AH package (B models)
Finish: champagne powder coat
Cold-weather package: below 20ºF (option)
Headroom: 80” minimum

Specifications as published by Bruno: maker's spec sheet.

Warranty

The maker's warranty for this model.

All parts: 1 year after installation
Major components (motor, Acme screw and drive nut, brake, pulleys, belt, screw bearings): 2 years
Labor: first 30 days after installation, by a Bruno Authorized Dealer
For the original buyer; service and warranty through the installing Bruno Authorized Dealer
Excludes misuse, abuse, accidents, neglect, consumables and reasonable wear and tear

Repairs and replacements under warranty are processed in coordination with the manufacturer.

Full warranty terms from Bruno

Why buy from Custom Mobility

Custom Mobility is My Mobility.

Since 1990The company was founded in 1990 and has operated continuously since.
Georgia installation and serviceOur technicians are mobile and come to your home, facility, or fleet yard anywhere in Georgia.
Ships across the lower 48Products ship across the lower 48.
We service what we sellWith our own technicians, from the same company that sold it.
A showroom in AthensWalk-ins are welcome at 315 Whitehead Road.

Common questions

How much space does it need?

Far less than a ramp. ADA guidance calls for twelve inches of ramp run for every inch of rise, so a thirty inch porch wants a thirty foot ramp. Most front yards cannot give that up. A platform lift needs roughly the footprint of the platform itself.

Can I use it with a walker or a rollator rather than a wheelchair?

Yes. The platform is flat with a gate at each end, so you walk or roll straight on. Many of our residential platform lifts are used by people who are unsteady on steps rather than by chair users.

Does it need a pit?

Some configurations do and some do not. The site survey settles it before you are quoted.

Do you handle the permit and inspection?

Yes. This equipment generally requires a licensed installer and an inspection, and we hold that licensing in our own name rather than borrowing it from a subcontractor.

Can it go outdoors?

Yes, with weather-rated equipment: sealed controls, drainage, and a cover. We will not install an indoor unit outside, because it fails within a season.

How long does the whole job take?

Weeks rather than days, and most of that is site preparation and permitting rather than the installation itself. If a concrete pad has to be poured and cured, that is the long pole.

Do you service what you sell?

Yes, with our own technicians. The person who comes back is from the same company as the person who installed it.

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