06 April, 2021
Retail & Hospitality Reopening Guide - Have you checked your lift?
If you’re in the retail and hospitality businesses, the past 12 months have probably been the hardest you’ve ever experienced, with large chunks of that year taken up...
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05 February, 2021
Platform lifts - the choices & differences
Platform lifts come in all shapes and sizes. In this blog, we walk you through the types available and the differences between them, outlining the advantages of each...
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20 January, 2021
Own a Lift? 3 Key Lift Regulations You Need to Know
The legal requirements surrounding the provision and use of passenger lifts and goods lifts provide a framework to ensure best practice. This blog gives an...
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09 December, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Mezzanine Goods Lifts
What are mezzanine goods lifts? Why choose one? Also known as warehouse goods lifts or pallet lifts, mezzanine goods lifts serve mezzanine floors—intermediate levels...
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03 December, 2020
Cage lifts vs goods lifts - the choices & differences
You’d be forgiven for thinking all goods lifts are the same, but they’re not… Whilst both help material movement and reduce manual handling risks there are some key...
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12 November, 2020
Lift inspections: Looking after your lift to save time, money & hassle
It pays to be a responsible lift owner—to ensure that your lifts and lifting equipment are maintained to the highest standards. Why? Because keeping your lift fit...
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29 October, 2020
Why It Pays to Upgrade Your Lift
Because lift replacements aren’t always the best solution...… particularly if your existing lift occupies a challenging location, design and/or...
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27 October, 2020
10 Types of Lifting Equipment to Make Material Handling Easier
In this post, we explore the different material handling equipment employees can use to enable the free movement of goods around a building, from A to B, or G to...
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22 October, 2020
6 Questions to Help Decide Your Lift Maintenance Company
Not all maintenance providers are the same. So we’ve compiled 6 questions to ask when deciding between them. And why it pays to do your homework…
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19 October, 2020
Lift Maintenance Contracts: An introduction
Lifts, as with all machinery, require regular servicing. As a lift owner if you have a lift that is used by an employee in a commercial setting, e.g. restaurant,...
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07 October, 2020
Lift Modernisation Benefits - Stannah
An old lift doesn't always need replacing and, in fact, doing so may be extremely difficult due to its design or layout. Instead, you can have a lift modernised....
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30 September, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Stairlift Batteries
Discover everything you need to know about stairlift batteries. How long do they last? What’s involved in a stairlift battery replacement? Find out here...
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21 September, 2020
A Guide on LOLER Thorough Lift Examination & Supplementary Tests
In this helpful overview we've covered what is required of you as a lift owner by Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) and what thorough...
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04 September, 2020
COVID-19: 3 Tips on Lift Use Whilst Social Distancing
Passenger and platform lifts are enclosed spaces where people mingle. They are also an essential mode of transport for people who struggle climbing stairs, especially...
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24 June, 2020
COVID: Getting Your Lifts Ready for Building Reopening
As people return to work and pubs, shops, hotels and other businesses resume. The key question is, are you ready? As a lift owner, it’s important to have your plans...
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26 May, 2020
COVID: Advice on Leaving Your Lift Inactive
Like cars, lifts left for long periods need a little TLC. If you leave your car parked on the drive for weeks on end and expect it to start, likely, it won’t. The...
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20 April, 2020
COVID: Escalator Cleaning and Use
With the current focus on preventing transmission of COVID on surfaces, escalator cleaning and use is a hot topic. This blog is a helpful guide...
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09 April, 2020
COVID: Advice for Lift Owners
With COVID affecting all of us personally and professionally, we appreciate your building’s lift might be the last thing on your mind. But in light of reopenings,...
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18 March, 2020
COVID: Lift Cleaning - a Step by Step Guide
In light of recent news, lift cleaning is now a hot topic, this blog is a helpful guide...
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28 October, 2019
Ensuring Platform Lift Landing Safety
At Stannah we believe in keeping our customers, other lift owners and operators advised of issues that may affect lift safety and the passengers that use them. Below...
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09 September, 2019
BS EN81-80: Lift upgrades for existing lifts
Like technology elsewhere, lifts and lift standards have developed over the years and new safety features have become the norm. In recognition of the fact that lift...
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15 June, 2019
Everything You Need to Know About Lift Maintenance | Stannah
Here at Stannah, we understand that lift maintenance, however important, is not a subject that often wets the proverbial appetite! So we pride ourselves on making...
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22 November, 2018
Passenger lift or platform lift - the differences...
Whilst both lifts move people they are quite different! When deciding between the two it can be confusing. So we've put together a short blog to outline the...
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24 July, 2018
Advice on Existing Lifts in Multi-storey Housing
A helpful guide on the existing lifts in multi-storey housing developments and flats, from the different types of lifts, including fire-fighting lifts, to...
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12 July, 2017
Owners Guide: Escalators & Moving Walkways | Stannah
So you own/are responsible for an escalator or moving walkway but are unsure of what this means in terms of your responsibilities? Don't worry, you're not alone! This...
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