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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Waterloo to Streatham

Passenger Lift Inspections in Lambeth

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Lambeth. The borough stretches from the offices and cultural buildings of the South Bank to the residential streets of Streatham, with the new towers of Vauxhall and Nine Elms in between.

07496 873972All equipment in Waterloo

The passenger-lift stock in Lambeth

Waterloo and the South Bank have offices, a major hospital, and public buildings with heavy visitor traffic. Vauxhall and the Lambeth side of Nine Elms have a cluster of new residential towers with high-rise and firefighting lifts. Kennington, Stockwell, Brixton and Clapham have large council estates and housing association blocks, many with lifts several decades old. Streatham and Norwood are mostly lower-rise, with lifts in retirement housing, care homes and smaller blocks.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Six months for all of them. Retirement and sheltered housing lifts matter more than most, because many residents cannot manage stairs at all, so visits are kept short and planned with the scheme manager. In the newer towers, the main job is often making sure every lift in the building, including firefighting and car-park lifts, is actually on the schedule.

Areas covered around Lambeth

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

  • Waterloo
  • South Bank
  • Vauxhall
  • Kennington
  • Stockwell
  • Brixton
  • Clapham
  • Streatham

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Lambeth — common questions

Do lifts in sheltered or retirement housing need examining more often?

The legal interval is the same six months as any passenger lift. What changes is how the visit is planned, because residents may not be able to use the stairs at all. We agree a time with the scheme manager and keep the lift out of service for as short a time as possible.

Does a car-park lift need a LOLER examination too?

Yes, if it carries people, which almost every car-park lift does. It is on the same six-monthly interval as the main passenger lifts and is one of the lifts most often left off a building's schedule.

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 Lambeth

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

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