Every lift owner knows LOLER. Most could tell you the headline frequency — every six months for passenger lifts. What very few know is what actually happens during those six months between inspections, what a thorough examination looks at specifically, and what the...
Building managers have a predictable reaction when a lift breaks down: call whoever is on the contact list and hope for the best. What distinguishes buildings that handle lift emergencies well from those that don’t is whether a plan existed before the breakdown...
The most expensive lift maintenance programme we ever audited wasn’t the one with the highest annual contract fee. It was the one with no contract at all. The building manager — a commercial property in Chelmsford — had been managing an ageing traction lift on a...
The short answer: every six months for passenger lifts. But the question building managers most often get wrong is not the frequency — it’s the distinction between a maintenance visit and a LOLER thorough examination. These are two different obligations,...
Elevators are significant intermittent consumers of electricity — the instantaneous power demand during a trip can be a thousand times greater than standby consumption. Yet most building managers have no clear picture of what their lift actually costs to run each...
What an older lift actually costs to run is not a question most building managers can answer precisely — because the energy consumption is buried in the building’s wider electricity bill and nobody has ever separated it out. At Future Lift Services, when we...
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