Tower Lifts
Tower Lifts
Service Your Lift, Extend Its Life
Understanding Your Lift Service and Its Benefits
To be honest, the term ‘lift service’ can be rather misleading, unless you’re in the know. It’s quite vague and might leave you wondering what you are actually paying for. To be clear, then, a lift service provides you with preventative care. Simply put – service your lift, extend its life.
A lift service involves a lift engineer carrying out a thorough inspection of your lift’s entire system, cleaning sensitive parts, lubricating moving components, and making precise adjustments. This is work that actively fights against the daily operational stress your lift experiences and, as a result, increasing its working life.
Here at Tower Lifts, we have over a decade’s experience providing proactive lift care. We advise all our clients to have a regular servicing schedule because we know it’s the best way to manage your asset. It gives you peace of mind, ensures user safety, and is far more cost-effective than waiting for something to go wrong.
What Affects Your Lift’s Lifespan?
A lift doesn’t just stop working overnight. Its lifespan can be calculated by the balance between daily operational stress and the quality of care it receives.
What Shortens a Lift’s Life?
Several factors actively work against your lift. Constant friction is the main problem – moving parts like cables, sheaves, and guide rails naturally wear down over time. This is accelerated by dirt and dust, which can clog up delicate mechanisms and cause components to overheat.
Electrical elements like relays and circuit boards will degrade over time, and even minor issues like misalignment can put extra strain on other components leading to premature failure.
What Extends a Lift’s Life?
Proactive lift servicing directly counters the stresses and naturally occurring problems listed above. Regular lubrication dramatically reduces friction. Thorough cleaning of the machine room and pit removes debris. During a service, engineers test and adjust components, catching them before they fail and preventing a deleterious effect on other components. Regular servicing is like pushing a reset button on daily wear and tear – the natural degradation is halted, and lift performance is enhanced.
Your Lift’s Longevity – Controlling of the Timeline
While you can’t change the age of your lift, you have more control over its effective lifespan than you might think. It all depends on whether you choose a passive or a proactive approach.
What Determines a Lift’s Lifespan?
The theoretical lifespan of a commercial lift is around 20-25 years. This depends heavily on how many journeys it makes a day, and the footfall it experiences. A lift that is constantly running will naturally experience more wear. The really important factor in terms of longevity, though, is not how much it’s used, but how well it’s looked after. An un-serviced lift will have a shorter lifespan.
How Servicing Gives You Control
Scheduled servicing is what puts you in control of your lift’s longevity. Instead of waiting for it to break down, you are actively preserving it. Consistent care ensures your lift can comfortably serve its purpose for over two decades and longer. It gives you control over your budget and ensures your lift is a long-term asset, protecting the value of the building.
Your Lift Service FAQ
Let’s clarify what ‘lift service’ means a little more with these commonly asked questions:
It’s like a full service for your car. A lift engineer doesn’t just look at your lift — they top up fluids (lubrication), check the engine (motor and drive system), test the brakes, inspect the electrics (control panel), and make sure everything is running optimally. It’s a thorough, preventative check-up of every vital lift component.
It depends on the kind of use your lift gets. A high use lift that does hundreds of journeys a day needs more frequent check-ups, probably monthly. A lift with very light use might only need a service every three months. We help you find the right number of service visits to keep your lift in excellent condition.
Yes, maintaining your lift in a safe condition is a legal duty under UK law (LOLER). The LOLER “Thorough Examination” is your lift’s mandatory annual MOT. Regular servicing is the routine maintenance you do throughout the year to make sure it passes the MOT and, more importantly, is safe to carry passengers every day.
Your Partner for Lift Reliability and Compliance
At Tower Lifts, we put the principles of preventative care into practice every single day by providing lift servicing and maintenance packages, each tailored to your building’s specific needs. And should an unexpected issue arise, our breakdown and lift repair services are ready to act promptly.
Our commitment to the highest standards is demonstrated by our accreditations which include ISO9001:2015 (quality management), ISO 45001 (health and safety), and Constructionline approval. As members of LEIA and with UKAS LiftCert certification, providing confidence that our work always meets industry benchmarks.
Contact our expert team today to discuss a servicing plan for your lift and receive a no-obligation quote – 01525 601099
Tower Lifts London lift team can design and install a varied range of lifts throughout the UK including:
Domestic Lifts • Food Lifts • Bespoke Platform Lifts • Service Lifts • Platform Lifts • Goods Lifts • Scenic Lifts • Heavy Duty / Car Lifts • Passenger Lifts • Dumbwaiter Lifts • MRL Lifts • Fire lifts • Residential Lifts • low-Headroom Lifts