Lift contracts, invoices, call-outs, renewals, records, compliance and budgeting. Written from the building's side of the table, with no account or email address required.
Five points to check before any lift invoice is approved, and none of them need lift expertise.
The distinction that settles most call-out disputes, and the one polite question worth asking.
The coverage is in the exclusions at the back of the contract, and they are worth reading twice.
Self-managing is workable. What it costs in hours, and what it costs when the hours are not spent.
Six tasks and a cadence, with a name against each one. What doing the job properly involves, whoever does it.
Why a small lift portfolio still needs clear ownership, and the four habits that keep it under control.
One account manager, hundreds of buildings. Where your building sits on the list, and one question that tells you.
Your lift company knows your lifts. An independent consultant works only for the owner. When each one is the right call.
The notice window, the records and the baseline: three things that make a switch orderly.
The service history, dockets and callback log describe your asset, and you have the right to see them.
Registration, safe-to-operate evidence and maintenance records: what to keep on file and why.
Lift replacement timing is usually decided by the control system, not the machinery. Plan for that.
The one-page lift summary that answers committee questions before they are asked. Free template included.
Five questions to put to anyone offering independent lift advice, with our own answers underneath each one.
Every check we run for paying clients is described free in these guides. The reasoning, stated honestly.
The review, the three outcomes and the one page that comes back. A process described before you sign up for it.
Everything LPM checks is explained in the guides above. If you'd rather have it handled, LPM reviews the contracts, invoices, quotes, dates and records as they arrive. You stay in control of the decisions. We stay on top of the detail.