Elevator picture Hall of Fame 2020 – 1st 4 months

We get to review a lot of pictures of elevators when we go survey them for sales, shut downs or engineering.  Here are a few gems that we pulled out of the vault.

I dumped you for a reason, but I forgot, now I remember – The first picture is from a building that went through a lot with a company who could have done a better job.  If you want to know, ask me and I’ll tell the whole story.  Anyway.  About 10 years after we did some work at the building and they recently called us back and we found this.  Surprisingly they had a bad traveling cable 2 days before we started on the new PM agreement.  “The water wasn’t there during my last PM”, dry rot on a new traveling cable doesn’t happen in 30 days…  Good news, the building signed back up, we replaced the traveling cable and the elevator is ACES now. 

I would like some answers! – This is from a building that has been though a lot with a different vendor.  We came in, cleaned all the cars, reduced shut downs but… The Village is still very interested in any elevator issue based on the past.  Each time an elevator shuts down we need to notify the Village on the resolution.   No elevator company could have prevented this one.  Yes, that is a shoe mark on the car door.  Nothing like a snap kick to shut the elevator down.

Something is better than nothing, but… Where did it go – I don’t see too many of these around. I applaud the effort, but where is the old one?

We go every month – This is from a building that has “monthly service” with an elevator maintenance company.   The building ownership did not like our price to clean the pit, sounds like the building owner and the elevator company are a match made in heaven.

You come here often? – I found this little guy in a disconnect during a visit to engineer a project.  He never got to tell his family about his adventures trying to get in the elevator machine room.  Should be a Pixar movie.

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