This past summer one of the elevators we service in our region made the news – which is rarely a good thing. Video footage of elderly residents slowly climbing stairs at the county-owned Senior Citizens complex, was just a tad uncomfortable for our team to watch. What the local news agency didn’t know at the […]
Elevator Upgrades
Time to Replace Double Bottom Hydraulic Cylinders
This past summer one of the elevators we service in our region made the news – which is rarely a good thing. Video footage of elderly residents slowly climbing stairs at the county-owned Senior Citizens complex, was just a tad uncomfortable for our team to watch. What the local news agency didn’t know at the […]
Necessity the Mother of Invention
Plato is usually credited with the proverb: “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”. COVID-19 has certainly spawned necessity and served as the catalyst for invention and innovation in 2020. A Psychology Today article identified: “7 Great Innovations Responding to the Coronavirus”. They included: a bag ventilator built from a windshield wiper motor; a thermal imaging […]
Quality Costs Money
By Rolly Mechler, Sales & Marketing Manager A colleague recently sent through the above Mona Lisa cartoon. While it made me laugh, it also caused me to exclaim: “preach it”! I have been involved in professional business-to-business (B2B) sales for over 30 years now (yup, I’m getting old) and I would have been tempted to […]
Trapped in a stuck elevator? The problem is worsening in Canada.
The recent Toronto Star article entitled Trapped in a stuck elevator? The problem is worsening in Canada, experts warn is making some waves in the elevator industry. Most of what this article states is correct and lines up with our observations of the industry in Ontario, Canada and specifically in our service district north of […]
Car Top Guard Rail / Car Top Railing Deadline is Quickly Approaching
The December 1, 2013 deadline to have all non-conforming elevator cars upgraded with car top safety railings is almost here. Building owners, who have not already contracted with an elevator company to do the work, will probably find themselves scrambling to find a contractor who can actually fit the work into their schedule. These owners […]
Machine Room Guarding for Elevators – An Overview
Machine room guarding is a complicated an often misunderstood topic. There are multiple pieces of overlapping and seemingly conflicting pieces of legislation regarding elevator machine room guarding. The enforcement and interpretation of this legislation also falls under different jurisdictions. Machine room guarding is intended to protect the workers, who do work in the elevator machine […]
