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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Deptford to Sydenham

Passenger Lift Inspections in Lewisham

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Lewisham. The borough has gained a cluster of new residential towers around Lewisham town centre and Deptford, while most of it remains residential streets, estates and care homes.

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The passenger-lift stock in Lewisham

Lewisham town centre and Deptford have new high-rise residential blocks with modern passenger lifts. New Cross has university and student accommodation. Catford, Lee, Brockley and Forest Hill have council and housing association blocks, mixed-use buildings over shops, and a significant number of care homes and supported housing schemes, many with passenger lifts, platform lifts and patient hoists.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Six months for every one of them. In care homes the lifts are only half the job: patient hoists, bath hoists and stairlifts also lift people, are also six-monthly, and are the items most often missing from the schedule. We examine them on the same visit and keep one record for the whole home.

Areas covered around Lewisham

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

  • Lewisham
  • Deptford
  • New Cross
  • Catford
  • Lee
  • Brockley
  • Forest Hill
  • Sydenham

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Lewisham — common questions

Do you inspect hoists in care homes as well as the lift?

Yes, on the same visit. Patient hoists, bath hoists and stairlifts all lift people, so they are six-monthly like the lift. Their slings are examined too. Each item goes on one record for the home with its next-due date, and we remind you before they fall due.

Can you work around residents in a care home?

Yes. We agree times with the manager so the lift is out of service when it causes least disruption, usually outside meal times and medication rounds, and examine hoists when they are not needed for care.

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 Lewisham

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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