Editorial Methodology: How These Guides Are Sourced, Checked and Updated

Who publishes these guides?

Mobility123, a New Jersey elevator and accessibility contractor, publishes elevatorguide.com and is an authorized dealer for every manufacturer the guides cover.

Mobility123 sells, installs and services the equipment covered here in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, and the site covers only equipment Mobility123 sells. No manufacturer pays for a guide, sponsors it or approves its content.

The manufacturers allow Mobility123 to use their product names, logos and photos, and each guide credits its photo. Mobility123 is not the manufacturer, and the guides are not manufacturer publications. The guides also carry Mobility123's quote form for projects in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.

Which sources do the guides use?

Current, official US-market documents from each manufacturer, and official code text and agency documents, each recorded with its document number, revision and date where the document gives them.

Manufacturer sources are the manufacturer's US website and its published documents: planning and design guides, specification sheets and owner manuals, plus ARCAT listings. Code sources are the official code text and agency documents, such as N.J.A.C. 5:23, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) documents, 34 Pa. Code Chapter 405 and the 2010 ADA Standards. Each guide lists its sources under "Sources and revision history".

Dealer websites, blogs, and Mobility123's own site copy and sales material are not sources. A copy of a manufacturer document hosted by a dealer is used only when the manufacturer no longer hosts it and the copy is clearly the manufacturer's own.

Why does each model get its own figures?

Values from different models, versions, markets or document revisions are never combined; when a product family has several models, each model gets its own row.

Figures are copied as the source states them. Imperial units come first, with metric only where the source gives both, and values are not rounded or converted. Canadian, European and UK documents are not used for US values.

What happens when two official documents disagree?

The newest dated document is used, and the guide flags the conflict wherever it changes a planning decision.

For example, the Savaria Multilift guide notes that Savaria's planning guides call for a 20 A circuit while the product page lists 15 A, and it tells the reader to size the circuit to 20 A and confirm. A conflict that does not change a decision is recorded in the guide's fact-check record, not in the text.

What if a value is not published?

The guide says the value is not published and who can supply it; a gap is never filled from a dealer site, a blog or memory.

Some planning values exist only in dealer-only or installation documents. The guides do not publish values taken from those documents; they say "Available from the manufacturer or a dealer on request" instead. "Not published" in a guide's tables and notes marks a value the manufacturer's public documents do not state.

How are codes and ASME standards cited?

Code statements come from official code text or agency documents, and an ASME standard, edition or section is named only where a code or manufacturer document names it.

ASME standards are sold, not free to read online, so the guides name them but do not quote their requirements or state limits from them. Where a guide gives the standard a manufacturer says its product meets, it gives it as the manufacturer states it. The edition that applies to a project comes from the adopted code, and the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) decides.

The glossary summarizes definitions from ASME A17.1-2022 and ASME A18.1-2020 in plain language, without copying the standards' wording or stating any number from them. The NJ and PA code page summarizes official code text as of its stated date and marks its own interpretations "in our reading".

How is Mobility123's own practice labeled?

A statement about how Mobility123 handles a step in practice names Mobility123, and it describes experience, not a manufacturer or code requirement.

For example, the Stiltz guides describe Mobility123's New Jersey permit practice for those lifts and label it as such. The AHJ decides each project.

How is each guide checked?

Each guide is drafted only from its source documents, then every figure and claim is checked against those documents before the guide is published.

A fact-check record for each guide maps every claim to its source document and page, and lists the gaps and conflicts. Two separate checks run against the source documents: one for specifications, and one for code statements, claims and style. Every finding is fixed before publication.

Automated checks run on every change to the site. Among other things, every number in a category comparison table must appear in that guide's text, every internal link must lead to a real page, and every section must open with a one-line answer.

How are guides updated and corrected?

A guide changes when a source or code changes or an error is confirmed, and each change raises its revision number and is logged in its revision history.

Each guide shows its document code, revision, publication date and last-updated date. The updated date changes only for a real content change. No fixed review cycle is promised; the revision history at the end of each guide records what changed and when. To hear when guides change, sign up at the end of any guide.

To report an error, email info@mobility123.com. Name the guide and the source that shows the error. If the source confirms it, we correct the guide, raise its revision number and log the change in its revision history.

What must you confirm for a real project?

Confirm every requirement with the manufacturer's current documents, your design professional and the AHJ, and build only from approved drawings for the exact unit.

The guides are planning references, not engineering, architectural, legal or code advice. A figure reflects the cited document on its date, and manufacturers change products and documents without notice. Site measurements, structure, electrical design and code approval belong to the project team and the AHJ. See the Terms of Use.

What do the guides leave out on purpose?

Prices, installation times, service promises, reviewer claims, staff or installation counts, years in business, ratings, testimonials and claims about competitors.

They also leave out any value that appears only in a dealer-only or internal document, and any Mobility123 warranty or service terms. A guide's warranty section covers only the manufacturer's published warranty.

Revision history

Rev. 01, published September 27, 2026, is the first version of this page.