Elevator maintenance guide in neighborhood communities

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Elevator maintenance is not only recommended in a community of neighbors for security issues, but also a mandatory task.The owners must have a maintenance contract with an authorized company, which must be responsible for carrying out the preventive reviews that marks the regulations, and occupy that the facilities also pass the periodic technical inspections.

The elevator is one of the fixed expenses to which all community of neighbors has to face that has this service.It is also an element to which special attention must.

The maintenance of the elevators of the neighborhood communities is regulated by Royal Decree 88/2013, of February 8, in which all the obligations to which both the owners and the conservative company are explained.One of them is to have a maintenance contract with an authorized company.

The owners must also request the competent body of the Autonomous Community to carry out the technical inspections to which the legislation forces periodically: every four years if the building in which the elevators are installed has more than twenty homes or has moreof four floors with stop, or every six months in the opposite case.After an accident in which damage to goods or persons there must also be a technical inspection.

Reviews and maintenance

Apart from the official inspections to which the elevators must be submitted, the conservative company must according to the norm minimal visits to the farm to ensure the maintenance of the facilities: every six weeks in the seniority buildings less than 20 years withup to six plants, and once a month if the antiquity or height of the block are greater.

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It is recommended that some of the maintenance tasks of the elevators are carried out once a month, to ensure their correct operation and safety.Among them are the review of the doors, the leveling of the elevator, the functioning of the alarm and the correct start of the elevator.

Another conservation work is common to be carried out quarterly (such as the cleaning of the pit or the review of oil levels) or semiannual (such as checking the paintings, emergency light or tension of the tension of the cables).Once a year, the maintenance company will carry out a more thorough review, which includes the revision of the pulley, cables, moorings or parachute, cleaning of pieces or checking hoses and pistons in search of possible leaks, soas the completion of a general operation test.

Obligations of the company and the owners

In addition to these periodic maintenance tasks, the company must take care of making those modifications in the facilities to which it forces the regulations, and also has another series of obligations, for example:

-Nege a technician immediately if there is an elevator stop with the catching of people, an accident or a similar urgency, or within a maximum period of 24 hours to correct breakdowns that produce stops without people trapped in the cabin.

-I interroxpir the service if serious and imminent risk of accident is appreciated, until its repair.

-There are aware of the competent body of the Autonomous Community any accident in which damage to people or things occurs, as well as keeping the service interrupted until the breakdown is repaired, a new inspection is carried out and the body confirms that it can be restored.

-Ter present in mandatory periodic inspections.

-Communicate the owners, at least two months in advance, the date of the next official inspection, and also inform them of the elements of the elevator that must be replaced because they are not in adequate conditions or of the modifications to be made forAdapt it to current regulations.

The community of owners also has certain obligations in relation to the elevator, in addition to having a maintenance contract and facilitating the realization of inspections and reviews.Among them are to prevent the operation of the elevator when there is knowledge that security guarantees are not gathered and request the realization of periodic inspections in time.

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