Engineering, compliance and lifecycle thinking from the Durant Lifts team.
Short, useful reading written by the engineers and dispatchers who keep London and Kent moving. Compliance guidance, repair-versus-replace economics, breakdown response, and the operational detail other contractors leave out.
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Typical contract prices per lift per year, what each tier actually includes, and the factors that move the number up or down. With real ranges, not a quote form.
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A growing library of practical guidance on compliance, lifecycle decisions and breakdown response.
Typical contract prices per lift per year, what each tier actually includes, and the factors that move the number.
Typical repair costs and downtime for the common faults, from door operators to controllers, with call-out fees.
You are not tied to the company that installed your lift. How the two models compare, and where the manufacturer wins.
The criteria that actually separate lift companies, ranked, plus the ten questions to ask before you sign.
What EN 81-28 requires of your lift emergency phone, why test calls fail, and the checks that keep a trapped passenger connected.
Door faults, levelling problems, controller faults and nuisance tripping. What each symptom means, and how urgently it needs an engineer.
The handover documents to demand, the contract notice traps to avoid, and how to switch without a compliance gap.
How often a lift should be serviced, what an engineer should actually do on each visit, and how to tell genuine PPM from box-ticking.
What the regulations actually require, who the duty holder is, and the documentation failures that create most issues.
A practical model for deciding when to spend on repairs and when to plan a modernisation. With the eight signals that tip the balance.
The exact sequence we want on-site staff to follow before our engineer arrives. Built from a thousand emergency call-outs.
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We publish when we have something genuinely useful to share. Modernisation case notes, regulatory updates, and operational guidance written by the engineers doing the work.
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