Independence Day – 4th of July 2023 – 115 Years of being an Independent Elevator Contractor

 

It is Independence Day in the States and we have been an independent elevator contractor for over 115 years in the Chicagoland area. 

We have large multinational companies who do a majority of the new construction and elevator installation.  The challenge with having an OEM or multinational elevator contractor install your equipment is that you may be stuck with them as a vendor until the market can catch up with becoming competent with their equipment.  If multinational company XYX installs your elevator, no one else has technical support to assist in repairing the elevator system, this is a challenge for us until we collect the knowledge and domain experience in troubleshooting their specific elevator system.   You will either pay up front for elevator installation or on the back end. 

 As an independent elevator contactor we have the freedom to maintain your elevators at what we believe is the correct level.  We will come monthly or quarterly as it states on our contracts.  Many elevator contracts indicate “as needed” or “periodic/systematic” which means they may not come to your building regularly and you may have no idea of when they will be there unless you call them for a shut down.  When many companies are removing elevator maintenance records from elevator machine rooms, we still have them there.  The State of Illinois code requires you to have maintenance records in the elevator machine room.

As an independent elevator contractor we can assign a reasonable amount of elevators to our routes so we have time to get to the elevator on maintenance, take care of your service calls, complete your testing and still perform a reasonable level of maintenance.  Many multinational elevator contractors assign too many elevators for the elevator mechanics and the level of maintenance falls at the building.  We have no plans of replacing elevator mechanics labor hours with predictive modeling.  We believe there is merit to having an IUEC trained elevator mechanic at your building to perform elevator maintenance.

In our area our labor pool is the same as our multinational counterparts and we have many elevator mechanics who have worked at Otis, Schindler, Kone, Westinghouse, Dover and Thyssen Krupp.

We take pride on being wholly American owned, privately operated and the longest running independent elevator company in the Midwest!  Don’t get stuck with a company who may not have your interests in mind when maintaining or upgrading your equipment.

Colley Elevator are proud members of the Elevator Contractors of America collective bargaining group!

Happy 4^th of July!  Go Independent!

If you have any questions or would like additional information feel free to contact me at CraigZ@colleyelevator.com or 630-766-7230 ext. 107.

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