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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Angel to Archway

Passenger Lift Inspections in Islington

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Islington. The borough is densely built, and outside the offices around Old Street most of its lifts are in buildings that each have only one or two of them.

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The passenger-lift stock in Islington

Clerkenwell and the area around Old Street are full of converted warehouses and industrial buildings, now offices and flats, where the lift was fitted into a structure never designed for one. Angel, Highbury and Holloway have mixed new-build blocks above shops. The borough also has large council estates with lifts in medium and high-rise blocks, and Archway and Finsbury Park have a growing number of new residential towers.

What the six-monthly examination covers

All of them are six-monthly. Lifts retrofitted into older buildings often have tight shafts, limited headroom and non-standard arrangements, so the examination takes a little longer and access needs planning. In a small block the most common gap is not the lift at all but the paperwork: nobody can find the last report, or nobody knows when the next one is due. We keep the record and remind you before it falls due.

Areas covered around Islington

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

  • Angel
  • Clerkenwell
  • Highbury
  • Holloway
  • Archway
  • Finsbury Park
  • Barnsbury
  • Old Street

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Islington — common questions

We can't find the last inspection report for our building's lift. What should we do?

Treat the lift as unexamined until you can prove otherwise. Ask the previous managing agent or the maintenance company for a copy, but if it cannot be found within a day or two, book an examination. Once we have examined it, we hold the record and remind you before the next one is due.

Is a lift in a converted warehouse examined differently?

The legal requirement is the same: six-monthly, because it carries people. The practical difference is that retrofitted lifts often have tighter shafts and older or unusual equipment, so the examiner needs good access to the pit, the headroom and the machinery space.

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 Islington

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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