The Importance of Elevator Maintenance on connectionselevator.com

The Importance of Elevator Maintenance

Regular maintenance, monitoring, and testing can save time and money

Experts estimate that there are nearly one million elevators in the US, each of which serves an average of 20,000 people every year. Elevators don’t just help us get places a little faster – they make dense urban living possible, allowing the efficient construction of high-rise structures all across the world. However, if your property has slow, broken, or otherwise defective elevators, it could be making your life a whole lot less efficient.

Elevators have hundreds of complex moving parts, many of which need regular maintenance to ensure that they work properly. Regularly maintaining elevator systems allows building owners to fix small problems before they become big ones, keeping repair costs down and greatly extending the lifespan of the equipment. Maintenance also improves how well an elevator works, as well-maintained examples are generally faster and provide a much better experience for users. (more…)

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Hurricanes and Elevators: Weathering the Storm and its Aftermath on connectionselevator.com

Hurricanes and Elevators: Weathering the Storm and its Aftermath
Protecting your elevator before, during, and after the storm

There’s no off-season for performing good elevator maintenance and taking proper safety precautions. As discussed in a previous post, hurricane preparedness should begin before hurricane season with a detailed evaluation of your elevator system’s storm readiness. Here’s a quick prep recap:

  • • Check that vents and openings in the machine room and hoist-way walls are in operating condition
  • • Inspect all doors and make appropriate repairs or replacements, if necessary
  • • Examine the seals and caulking on all doors, vents, and any openings
  • • Check that all sump pumps, float switches, and alarms are operating properly
  • • Consider installing a Battery Lowering Device, if one is not already installed
  • • Create a diagram of elevator locations, including car numbers, elevator-car phone numbers, and elevator company emergency numbers

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To Repair or Modernize Your Elevator: That is the Question on connectionselevator.com

To Repair or Modernize Your Elevator: That is the Question
5 things to consider when deciding to simply repair or modernize the technology

Maintenance of elevators is something most people don’t spend much time thinking about, but ensuring that the ones in your building are working properly is critical. If a problem is revealed, you will need to decide the best course of action, which can involve making repairs or going a more extensive route by modernizing the elevators so that future repairs are less likely to be necessary. And before any work is done, you must have a plan in place, since changes in service impact the entire building and everyone in it. (more…)

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How To Prepare Your Elevators For Hurricane Season on connectionselevator.com

How To Prepare Your Elevators For Hurricane Season

There’s no time like the present

When it comes to hurricanes, South Florida is in a unique position. Although the region doesn’t face the same risk from storm surge as other metropolitan areas, such as New Orleans and Tampa, it does have a higher chance of facing a direct hit from a category 5 hurricane.

In addition, the dense population and higher property values along the coast, combined with the ramifications of climate change, such as the potential for more extreme weather and higher tides, easily places South Florida in the eye of the storm. (more…)

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Heads up! Time to Get Working on Your Elevator Certification Renewal on connectionselevator.com

Heads up! Time to Get Working on Your Elevator Certification Renewal

Your certificate expires on July 31.

Benjamin Franklin is credited for saying, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Unless you’re an elevator in Florida. Then there are two different certainties. An annual fee, and renewing your elevator certification. The latter requires a satisfactory inspection performed by a certified elevator inspector.

It’s coming up on that time of the year again. Your elevators must pass their annual safety inspections with enough time to correct any issues in order to receive a renewed certificate of operation. That expiration date is July 31.

Two considerations make it crucial that you start the process now. The most important is that any violations must be corrected within 90 days, and you need a clean report card to get your renewal. Just as important, though, is that this certification applies to all public elevators. The companies that inspect them are seeing their calendars filling up fast. (more…)

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