Maiyuu has been stuck inside the thing at least once, when the doors failed to open.
I was trapped inside briefly another time, when the lights and the feeble air-conditioning also gave out.
Two other tenants were in the lift with me. If the doors had taken much longer to open, we would have been in trouble.
The other night, the lift was broken when I came home from work. I had to walk up seven flights of stairs to get home.
After the recent series of break-downs, the condo office has now hired a lift repair firm to fix the thing whenever the need arises.
It has posted three notices in the lift for tenants' inspection over the last week.
They are written in Thai, and direct occupants who encounter problems to call the repair firm.
The first notice which went up gives three numbers. The second notice gave a number where a repair man can be reached 24-hours a day.
The most recent notice urges tenants who encounter lift problems not to 'reset' the lift themselves.
'This can make it hard for the repair man to identify what is wrong, so please leave the lift alone,' the notice reads.
Reset it? The lift has only so many buttons which tenants can press.
As for the notices with all the phone numbers, I assume they have gone up in the lift so that we can call for help should we get stuck in there. Let's hope we can still get a cellphone signal out.
Yet still the problem persists. A hand-written sign telling me the lift was broken was posted on the ground floor when I went down yesterday afternoon.
Someone forgot to remove the sign. The lift had been fixed since the notice went up, as I had just travelled downstairs in the thing.
Nor is the problem confined to our building. The lift in the car-parking building at the far end of the complex has also broken several times in the last week.
Do lifts go peculiar in hot weather? Perhaps the condo needs to change its lift repairers. At this rate, they could move office to our condo, and rarely be out of work.
Lino26 April 2009 at 20:40
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Most likely this refers to forcing the cab door open and then closing it to jog the relays and get it moving again. I do this when my 1955 unit here in NY stops between floors.
One somewhat unnerving problem occurred last summer. The lifting motor is three phase (takes three wires for power at slightly different phases) one "leg" developed bad contact so the motor hummed loudly and sometimes would stop descending and slowly start to go upwards. The same "reset' fix was to force open the door then let it close. I got fed up with this and the repairmen didn't seem to fix it so, one night I went up to the motor room and found the sparking contact, cleaned and de-pitted it and that was that.
As for air...? Don't you have vents in the cab? Anyway, air would always leak in around the door, there is no way you would suffocate.
Here in NY a Chinese food deliveryman was stuck in an elevator for 3 days in a high rise up in the Bronx. He was OK but I'll bet that elevator was uh, messy.
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Bkkdreamer27 April 2009 at 06:06
No air vents as far as I can tell. For 'oxygen' perhaps I should have said 'weak air stream'.
It is supposed to be air con, but even when functioning normally it is so weak I can hardly tell the difference.
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