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Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — All Five Medway Towns

Passenger Lift Inspections Across Medway

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across the Medway towns — Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. The business is based in Medway rather than covering it from elsewhere, which is the practical difference when a certificate has lapsed and somebody needs attending to this week.

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The passenger-lift stock in Medway

Medway's passenger-lift stock changes character sharply from town to town, which is why the five towns have their own pages. Gillingham carries the healthcare and care estate, including bed lifts, evacuation lifts and patient hoists. Rochester holds the heritage retrofits — platform lifts and stairlifts fitted into buildings never designed for them. Chatham runs high-footfall retail and campus lifts alongside newer waterfront residential. Strood is a distribution town where the passenger lift is a minority item behind the fleet, as is Sittingbourne, just over the border in Swale. A portfolio spread across Medway is not one estate with one answer.

What the six-monthly examination covers

Six months, for every one of them, because they all carry people. Across a multi-town portfolio the difficulty is rarely the examination and almost always the register: equipment acquired with a building, lifts renumbered at modernisation, accessories nobody listed, and sites where the interval belongs to no named person. We hold the register and the next-due dates and make contact before the examination falls due.

Areas covered around Medway

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

  • Chatham
  • Gillingham
  • Rochester
  • Strood
  • Rainham
  • Hoo
  • Cuxton
  • Isle of Grain

Passenger lift inspections in nearby towns

Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Medway — common questions

Do you cover all five Medway towns?

Yes, and from inside Medway rather than from a depot elsewhere. Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham all have their own passenger-lift page because the stock in each is genuinely different — a hospital bed lift in Gillingham and a retrofitted platform lift in a listed Rochester building are not the same job.

How do you handle a portfolio across several Medway sites?

One register covering every item of equipment with its interval and next-due date, then visits routed by what falls due rather than by geography. On a Medway portfolio the sites are close enough that routing is the easy part; keeping the register complete as equipment is acquired, modernised or inherited with a building is the part that actually prevents lapses.

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 Medway

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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