Chicago elevator maintenance – Good looking work

Last week I went to many building’s but two building’s stuck out in my mind.  You usually remember the really bad ones but in this case there was two good ones.

Building #1 – This is a building we maintain and I was meeting the new owner of the building.  The new owner was late so I poked around to look at what we had under the hood.  Everything looked great.  I always love seeing this on our jobs.  Colley put this elevator in 1986.

[Clean car top]

[Pit is pretty good] 

[32 year old power unit still looks good for its age]

[Controller is clean and well maintained]

Building #2 – I met a building owner in the wee hours of the morning to kick the tires on his elevator.  He had been told by Otis that his door scan is obsolete and it would cost $4,500.00 to replace so he got concerned about his other equipment when the sales person started pushing other modernization.  I took a look around and everything was clean, well maintained and running well.  This is a case of the elevator maintenance person doing a great job but the office personnel trying to sell sell sell.  Otis put this elevator in 1993.

[Clean car top]

[Pit is pretty good] 

[Power unit looks good] 

[Controller is well maintained] 

Take away - Both of these job are testimonials to good maintenance technicians that are doing right by the building.  Cleaning is one of the first parts to getting and keeping a elevator running well. 

As always feel free to contact us at www.colleyelevator.com, email Craigz@colleyelevator.com or call 630-766-7230.