Chicago elevator maintenance traction elevator – dormant buildings

I was scrolling through old emails cleaning up old emails and found these pictures of a traction elevator from a building that was dormant, owned but not occupied.  We previously had the maintenance contract, building owners moved out, the building was dormant for many months until a sale was finalized.  At some time during this period one of the elevators stopped working. 

While the outcome is the same if this was caught before it was a balled-up mess, the resolution would be a lot cleaner if it was identified earlier or perhaps it could have been prevented.  In my opinion one of the worse things for an elevators is having it not be exercised on a regular basis.

Take away – Even dormant buildings require elevator maintenance.  The hard part of this is that a dormant building has no revenue associated with it and there is an expense of paying an elevator mechanic to inspect the elevators.  An elevator mechanic may have caught this earlier or could have cared for the elevator so this would not have occurred.  Now the cables need to be replaced.

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