Modernisation & upgrades
Is your lift becoming unreliable, expensive to repair or difficult to source parts for?
Modernisation can extend the life of your existing lift, improve reliability and ride quality, and address ageing or non-compliant equipment — often without replacing the entire lift.
Is this what you’re experiencing?
- Frequent breakdowns or ageing equipment
- Parts becoming hard to find or no longer made
- A dated appearance or poor accessibility
- Rising repair costs with no end in sight
What Eastern Lift Services can do
- We assess what’s actually failing.
- We recommend upgrades that fix it.
- Where appropriate, we retain equipment that doesn’t need replacing.
We survey your existing lift, identify what’s causing the reliability and cost problems, and recommend upgrades that address them — reliability, appearance and compliance, in that order of priority unless your situation says otherwise.
What happens next
Tell us what’s happening
What’s going wrong, and how it’s affecting your building.
We review the situation
A site survey of your existing lift and its condition.
We recommend the appropriate next step
Specific upgrades, not a generic modernisation package.
What “modernisation” actually covers
Modernisation usually means replacing the parts that fail most and age fastest — the control system that runs the lift, the motor and drive that move it, and sometimes the cabin interior and doors — while keeping the parts of your existing installation that don’t need replacing. It’s rarely an all-or-nothing decision.
Common questions
Do I need to replace the whole lift?
Not usually — most modernisation work replaces specific components rather than the entire installation.
How long does the work take?
It depends on the scope — we’ll give you a realistic timeframe as part of the survey, not before we’ve actually looked at your equipment.
Is the lift out of use during modernisation?
For some of the work, yes — we’ll agree the plan with you in advance so you can prepare for it.
Not sure whether to repair, modernise or replace?
We’ll assess the condition of your existing lift and explain the most sensible options before you commit to a major upgrade.