A hand winched material lift that raises plasterboard, ducting, panels and units to ceiling height and then holds them there while you fix. No motor, no power needed, just a winch and a mast.
What it replaces is two or three people standing with their arms up, which is slow, hard on everyone and the reason first fix takes as long as it does. One person and this will board a ceiling that three people would otherwise be wrestling with.
Getting it to the job
It is 760mm across, which gets it through a standard doorway and a 900mm gate, and it breaks down for transport so it goes up a staircase in pieces.
The thing to check is the floor it will stand on rather than the way in. It wants firm and level under all of it, and a suspended or uneven floor is worth thinking about before the load goes up.
The numbers
Genie Lift specification
Lift0.0m or 7.8 m
Load0kg
Width0mm
Against a side gate
760mmSide gate 900mm
140mm to spare through a standard timber side gate.
Measure the tightest point of the whole route in, not just the gate. The genie lift is one of the machines it fits past.
The rest of the sheet
Hire type
Dry hire
Getting it there
Collect or delivered
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Checked over between every hire
The full set: forks and straps
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Firm, level ground or floor to stand it on
The load secured to the platform before it goes up
Boots and gloves, and nobody underneath it
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the genie lift goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
01/ 06
Boarding ceilings
Plasterboard held at the right height while you fix it, instead of two people holding and one screwing.
02/ 06
Ducting and services
Lifting duct sections and trays into place and holding them for fixing.
03/ 06
Kitchen and wall units
Getting a run of units up to line and holding them level while they are fixed.
04/ 06
Lighting and ceiling fittings
Heavy fittings raised and held steady rather than balanced overhead.
05/ 06
Getting materials onto a scaffold
Lifting boards and materials up to a working platform without carrying them up.
06/ 06
Shopfitting and signage
Panels and fascias lifted into position and held while they are levelled and fixed.
How it works
Hiring the genie lift start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Genie Lift, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Nobody goes on it
It lifts materials, not people. It is not a work platform and it is not an alternative to the scaffold tower, whatever it looks like.
02
Secure the load
Strap or otherwise fix what you are lifting before it leaves the ground. A sheet of plasterboard five metres up that decides to slide is a serious problem.
03
Level ground, every time
Set the outriggers or legs properly on firm, level ground. A mast loaded at height on a slope is exactly as unstable as it sounds.
04
Nobody underneath
Not while it is going up, not while it is held, not while it is coming down. Keep the area under it clear.
05
Know the weight
Two hundred and twenty-seven kilos is the limit. Boards and duct are heavier in a stack than people estimate, so count rather than guess.
06
Lower it under control
Winch it down rather than letting it run. The load coming down fast is when things shift.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
A hand winched material lift on a mast. Genie is a manufacturer name that became the everyday word for it. People also ask for it as a plasterboard lift, a panel lift or a board lifter.
No. It lifts materials only. If you need to be at height yourself, that is the scaffold tower and they are frequently hired together.
We have them at 5.8m and 7.8m, which covers ordinary and most commercial ceiling heights. Tell us the height you are working to when you ring and we will say which one you need.
No, it is a hand winch. That is part of why it suits first fix work, where the supply often is not on yet.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the genie lift is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
