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Integrity Lift Compliance

Sector — Residential Blocks

Lift Inspections for Blocks of Flats & Managing Agents

In a block of flats the lift is how people get home. Residents who cannot manage the stairs depend on it, and the six-monthly examination falls to whoever controls the common parts: a managing agent, a freeholder, a residents' management company or a right-to-manage company. We examine the lift, send the report the same day with photographs, and remind you before the next one is due.

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Certificate expired or lift out of compliance? You're exposed to enforcement action, and your insurance may not respond, until it's resolved. What to do.

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What Makes This Sector Different

The compliance pressures specific to residential blocks and managing agents

The duty stays with whoever controls the lift

Managing agents arrange the visit, but the legal duty sits with whoever controls the common parts, usually the freeholder or the residents' management company. When an agent changes, the examination record often goes missing with them. We keep each lift's record and next-due date with the building, so it survives a change of agent.

A lift out of service affects people's homes

The brake, governor and safety gear cannot be tested while the lift is carrying people, so it comes out of service for part of the visit. In a block with one lift we agree the time with you in advance so residents can be told, and examine one car at a time where there are more. Mark is enhanced DBS checked, which matters in buildings where people live, and the certificate is available on request.

Residents ask to see the report

Leaseholders pay for the lift through the service charge and increasingly ask to see its paperwork. Our reports are issued the same day, with photographs, in a form you can share. Because we sell no repairs, nothing on the report is a sales pitch for remedial work.

Equipment We Examine

Typical Residential Blocks Plant

Our Experience Here

Why we say this

Residential blocks are part of Mark's 26+ years of lift engineering experience.

Who enforces here

Generally the local authority, because providing residential accommodation is a council-enforced activity under the Enforcing Authority Regulations. In a higher-risk residential building, lift records also sit alongside the safety information the accountable person has to keep, and firefighting and evacuation lifts need monthly checks under fire safety law.

Talk to the engineer, not a call handler

Every survey is scoped by an engineer who has worked on this class of plant. If your question is whether a particular machine falls under LOLER, PUWER or both, that is a conversation worth having before you book anything.

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Further reading for residential blocks and managing agents duty-holders

LOLER Responsibility: Landlord or Tenant?
LOLER responsibility follows control of the equipment, not ownership of the building. In practice, the freeholder or managing agent is usually the duty-holder for lifts in shared areas, while a tenant can become the duty-holder for lifting equipment they operate exclusively within their own unit.
How Often Does a Passenger Lift Need Inspecting?
Every six months. The confusion is almost never about the number — it is about whether the maintenance visits already cover it. They do not. A service contract and a thorough examination are different things done by different people for different reasons, and having one does not satisfy the duty for the other.
Will the Examiner Leave My Lift Out of Service?
It is the question duty-holders ask least often and worry about most, and it is the real reason many let their maintenance contractor examine its own work. A thorough examination takes the lift out of normal service deliberately — that is what testing the safety gear means. Getting it back is specific to the installation in front of you rather than to the name on the doors.

Trusted by Critical Estates

Independent. Defensible. Genuinely Endorsed.

SAFed-aligned defect classification, and the endorsement below is a genuine NHS Trust quote — not stock marketing copy.

NHS
NHS
Critical estate passenger lift compliance experience
SK
Skanska
Construction & engineering compliance support
A·B·C
SAFed-Aligned Defect Grading
Defects graded A, B or C to the published SAFed severity scale — a grading standard we follow, not a membership we hold
DBS
Enhanced DBS
Director Mark Crowley holds an enhanced DBS check
NHS Trust Endorsement
“Exceptional response times and thorough documentation. Managing compliance across multiple critical medical estates is complex, but their team makes statutory lift auditing seamless.”
Phillip Nai
Critical Healthcare Estates Manager
Barts Health NHS Trust

Common Questions

Residential Blocks & Managing Agents — Common Questions

Do you carry out LOLER inspections for residential blocks and managing agents?

Yes. Residential blocks are part of Mark's 26+ years of lift engineering experience. We examine the classes of plant listed on this page, and every survey is scoped by an engineer with a background in that equipment.

The duty stays with whoever controls the lift — what does that mean in practice?

Managing agents arrange the visit, but the legal duty sits with whoever controls the common parts, usually the freeholder or the residents' management company. When an agent changes, the examination record often goes missing with them. We keep each lift's record and next-due date with the building, so it survives a change of agent.

A lift out of service affects people's homes — what does that mean in practice?

The brake, governor and safety gear cannot be tested while the lift is carrying people, so it comes out of service for part of the visit. In a block with one lift we agree the time with you in advance so residents can be told, and examine one car at a time where there are more. Mark is enhanced DBS checked, which matters in buildings where people live, and the certificate is available on request.

Residents ask to see the report — what does that mean in practice?

Leaseholders pay for the lift through the service charge and increasingly ask to see its paperwork. Our reports are issued the same day, with photographs, in a form you can share. Because we sell no repairs, nothing on the report is a sales pitch for remedial work.

Are you independent of maintenance contractors?

Yes. We do not sell maintenance, repairs, spares or replacement plant, so a defect recorded in a Report of Thorough Examination is never a quotation in disguise. For a duty-holder presenting compliance evidence to an insurer, a client or the HSE, that separation is worth being able to state plainly.

Request a Residential Blocks Compliance Survey

Tell us what you have and where. We'll reply within one business hour, and you'll deal with an engineer familiar with residential blocks and managing agents.

Already have an asset list or examination schedule? Email it to info@integrityliftcompliance.co.uk and we'll come back with a survey plan rather than ask you to retype it.

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