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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Colindale to Finchley

Passenger Lift Inspections in Barnet

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Barnet. The borough has added thousands of new homes in lifted blocks at Colindale and Brent Cross, and has a large number of care homes.

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The passenger-lift stock in Barnet

Colindale and the Brent Cross area have large new residential developments with modern passenger lifts, several per block. Hendon has a university campus. Finchley, Golders Green and Edgware have mansion blocks, mixed-use buildings and retirement housing. Across the borough there are many care homes and nursing homes with passenger lifts, platform lifts, stairlifts and patient hoists.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Six months for anything that lifts people, which in a care home means the lift and every hoist. On new developments with several blocks, we keep a single record of every lift with its own due date, so one block's lifts do not quietly drift out of date while the others are kept current.

Areas covered around Barnet

Passenger lifts carry people, so the statutory interval is six months — not twelve.

  • Colindale
  • Brent Cross
  • Hendon
  • Finchley
  • Golders Green
  • Edgware
  • Mill Hill
  • Barnet

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Barnet — common questions

Our care home has a lift and several hoists. Can it all be done on one visit?

Yes. We examine the lift, patient hoists, bath hoists, stairlifts and slings on the same visit, issue the reports the same day with photographs, and keep one record for the home with every next-due date.

We manage a new development with many blocks. How do you keep track?

One record for the whole development, listing every lift by block and core with its last examination and next-due date. We remind you before each falls due and route the visits so the site is covered efficiently.

Further reading

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.
Can My Lift Company Carry Out the LOLER Inspection?
It is one of the most common questions duty-holders ask, and the honest answer is not a flat no. LOLER does not name a prohibited person. What it requires is a competent person, and HSE expects that person to be sufficiently independent and impartial to make objective decisions — which is where a maintenance provider examining its own work runs into difficulty. This is about the structure of the arrangement, not about anyone's honesty.

Book a passenger lift examination in Barnet

Tell us what needs inspecting and where — company name, contact details and a note on the equipment. We'll reply within one business hour.

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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