Service · Every visit
Elevator Maintenance
The work that happens inside an AMC visit. Unglamorous, repetitive, and the reason a well-kept lift runs for thirty years while a neglected one is unreliable by year eight.
Scope
What actually gets done in a maintenance visit.
Roughly seventy per cent of lift breakdowns trace back to doors. That is where the time goes, and it is why door gear leads our checklist rather than trailing it.
What is included
- Door gear inspection and adjustment. Operator, interlocks, rollers, skates and safety edge — the largest single cause of breakdowns.
- Levelling accuracy check. Measured at landings under load, and adjusted before it becomes a trip hazard.
- Brake inspection. Lining wear, gap setting and holding test. On an ageing lift this is the item that quietly drifts.
- Rope and sheave condition. Wear, elongation, tension equalisation and groove condition, recorded over time.
- Lubrication and guide shoes. Rail lubrication and guide shoe wear, which together set ride quality.
- Controller and safety circuit check. Fault log reviewed, terminal connections checked, safety chain verified.
Cadence
How often, and why it varies.
Service frequency should follow duty, not habit. A warehouse goods lift and a two-flat residential lift do not need the same schedule.
Weekly — heavy industrial and transit
Freight elevators and escalators in continuous duty. Wear rates here make monthly intervals too long.
Fortnightly — hospitals and high-traffic retail
Where a stoppage is a clinical or crowd problem, and where door cycles run into the thousands per day.
Monthly — standard residential and commercial
The default for most buildings we serve. Enough to catch drift before it becomes failure.
Quarterly — very low usage
Home lifts and lightly used buildings. Fewer cycles, but corrosion and standby faults still need attention.
Annually — statutory testing
Full load, overload and safety-gear testing, carried out as a safety inspection alongside the routine schedule.
Early warnings
What a lift does before it stops.
Lifts rarely fail without notice. These are the four signals building managers can spot themselves, and each one is cheap to fix at this stage.
New noise on start or stop
Usually brake or guide shoe. Both are adjustable, and both get expensive if left until something seizes.
Vibration through the car
Guide shoe wear or rail alignment. Ride quality degrades gradually, so occupants stop noticing — until they complain all at once.
Doors reopening or hesitating
Safety edge or operator adjustment. This is the single most common precursor to a breakdown call.
The car misses floor level
Levelling drift. A step at the landing is both a fault and a liability the building carries.
Coverage
Elevator Maintenance across the NCR.
Engineers dispatched from Ghaziabad. Survey visits in all six districts are free.
Common questions
What people ask before booking
Is maintenance the same as an AMC?
Maintenance is the work; an AMC is the contract that schedules and prices it. You can buy visits without a contract, but a contract is cheaper for anything ongoing.
How long should a maintenance visit take?
For a standard passenger lift, around 45 to 90 minutes depending on stops and condition. A twenty-minute visit has not covered the checklist.
Does the lift have to be shut down?
Yes, for part of the visit. We agree the window with the building manager in advance, and for MRL lifts the shutdown is longer because work happens inside the shaft.
Why do doors need so much attention?
Because they do the most work. Every trip cycles the doors twice, so door gear accumulates wear faster than anything else on the lift.
Can you maintain lifts from other manufacturers?
Yes. We survey the machine first and give you a written condition report before taking it on.
Lift making a noise it did not make last month?
That is the cheap moment to look at it. Send a description and we will tell you whether it needs a visit now or at the next scheduled service.