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Integrity Lift Compliance

Six-Monthly Thorough Examination — Battersea to Tooting

Passenger Lift Inspections in Wandsworth

Independent six-monthly thorough examination of passenger lifts across Wandsworth. The borough's riverside has been rebuilt with new residential towers from Nine Elms to Putney, while its town centres and estates hold older lifts in large numbers.

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The passenger-lift stock in Wandsworth

Battersea and Nine Elms have one of the largest concentrations of new residential towers in London, with high-rise passenger lifts and firefighting lifts. Wandsworth Town and Putney have riverside apartment blocks of the last thirty years. Clapham Junction, Tooting and Balham have mixed-use blocks over shops and council estates with lifts of every age, and Tooting has a large hospital and university site.

What the six-monthly examination covers

All six-monthly. In new towers the lifts are modern but numerous, and the risk is administrative: a lift in a car park, a podium or a separate core that never made it onto the schedule. On older estate lifts the findings are more mechanical, at the doors, ropes and brakes. Each report comes the same day with photographs, so you can see what was found rather than read about it.

Areas covered around Wandsworth

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

  • Battersea
  • Nine Elms
  • Putney
  • Wandsworth Town
  • Clapham Junction
  • Tooting
  • Balham
  • Earlsfield

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Common Questions

Passenger lift inspections in Wandsworth — common questions

How do I know every lift in my development is on the schedule?

Walk the building with the lift list in hand: every core, the car park, any podium or platform lifts, and any goods or service lifts. Anything that carries people is six-monthly. We do this on the first visit and keep the record so nothing drops off it.

What happens if the examination finds a serious defect?

If the lift is not safe to use, we tell you straight away, before we leave site, and it stays out of service until the defect is put right. The report, with photographs, follows the same day. Less serious defects go on the report with a date by which they must be fixed. Because we sell no repairs, your own lift company does the work.

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 Wandsworth

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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