I just switched Elevator companies for the maintenance contract on my building.

The company I had had been bought and the service had deteriorated until I almost felt I knew more about the elevator than the guys they sent out to fix it. The last month and a half of their service the elevator went down about 20 times. I was so unhappy.

So I signed up with a new company Amco, and am hoping for the best.

As luck would have it the old company kept doing repairs up til the last day, even coming back a few days after their contract expired to put on some parts that had not come in in time and......

The elevator has been trouble free for a month.

They got lucky and fixed it after two months of having a crew drive up from Indianapolis every other day to guess at the problem.

I'll keep you posted on the new company.

BTW, my elevator was put in in 1951 and it is still mostly all original except for replacing wear parts. Although it has been down many times in the last eight years folks only have been stuck in it twice and then only for short periods of time. It has never fallen and I feel totally safe riding it up and down.

Tom W

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