Monday, February 3, 2014

The Facts About Elevator Maintenance

By Serena Price


Elevator maintenance and inspections are performed on a regular basis in order to be well functioning and to assure passengers that they are safe. Some individuals are afraid of elevators and will avoid them at all costs. Many people trudge up and down multiple flights of stairs lugging suitcases or other heavy items rather than step into the platform which is hoisted up and down on cables.

Some of the models that are especially fear provoking are those with see-through walls. They tend to go sky-high up the sides of tall buildings or glass elevators in multistory hotels or fancy offices. Here are some things to think about regarding maintenance and phobic passengers.

Your lift is an investment and is very important to the life of your business and how people view your business. It plays a major part in how much your business is worth and when you take proper care of these lifts you are helping to protect your investment. It is important that they look and smell nice and run smoothly.

You can make your lift last longer if you practice good preventative lift upkeeps. When machinery is getting used on a constant basis it needs to be inspected and lubricated more often. When you have it inspected frequently, you can make your lifts more reliable and dependable. This, of course, also makes your business more dependable as well.

In real life there probably are not a lot of babies being born in stuck lifts but it is also probably not any pregnant womans dream to deliver in on to test out the theory. To avoid problems most buildings are careful to have their lift upkeeps taken care of annually. Part of that means checking the door sensors to ensure they are reading properly to open and close the door and can sense when there is an object in the way.

In this regard they are a lot like your automatic garage door at home that will sense when there is something in the path of the door and reopen or stall. Other items on the lift upkeeps check list include making sure the emergency phone located inside works. Usually these phones are wired to go directly to an alarm company that monitors lift phones as well as alarms in buildings.

Becoming desensitized to the closed-in room that goes up high can be achieved. Some ways to become desensitized is by exposure to the situation. Going to a building with a well maintained system and going up one floor is a great way to practice. Seeing a therapist may help, too.

Practicing meditation on a regular basis will help in altering obsessive phobic thoughts. Keeping ones eyes closed while riding up and down can be another helpful tactic. There are mixed opinions on whether elevator maintenance will make a person less fearful about the devices. It certainly helps, though, when battling a phobia, to know that the lift you are climbing into has been well serviced by a competent tech.




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