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We fully appreciate how important a reliable lift is to our clients.
We maintain a number of lifts in care homes, apartment blocks, schools, and hotels throughout the UK. We pride ourselves on providing outstanding and preventative servicing. However, should your lift fail, our locally based network of engineers are available 24 hours a day to give a rapid response when you need us.
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Research indicates that the average lift breaks down four times a year.
A lack of adequate maintenance can increase the risk of downtime, as well as incurring callout and repair costs.
As part of our preventative maintenance programme and commitment to continuous improvement, we’re pleased to be achieving a much better result for our clients, and in 2025 we attended an average of 1.06 callouts per lift on contract.
1.06
Our contract customers get priority access to our 24-hour callout service using our normal telephone number 01837 659 734.
Although our callout response times can’t be guaranteed due to traffic and weather conditions etc, we do monitor this and are typically able to achieve and exceed the industry standard of same day response for non-urgent callouts (almost all within four hours), and within one hour response for emergency trap-ins in normal working hours. Using our advanced CRM system we can provide you with an ETA when you contact us, and regular updates on when our engineer will be attending.
Your lift should be fitted with an audible alarm and two-way communication system such as an autodialler which trapped passengers can use to contact us for an emergency response. As long as an open protocol autodialler is fitted, we will re-program this free of charge during our first service visit.
Click here to learn more about the Openreach copper phase out and what this means for your autodialler.
This depends what time of day you ask us to attend. But we never charge for travelling time or mileage, simply an attendance fee plus the time spent on site.
If you have a routine service due, we can offer to combine the visits to save you having to pay an attendance fee.
Call us on 01837 659 734 and if you’re a contract customer we will dispatch an engineer to you without delay.
When calling, please provide as much information as possible as to what’s happened to help our engineer get to the root cause of the issue.
Examples of this useful information is:
If you’re not yet a contract customer, please contact us today for a free quotation.
Most importantly, never try to reset or work on the lift yourself.
Thank you! You guys are a joy to work with 😊
You have been very efficient; you’re the only company to come back to me and therefore got our business. Well done on customer service.
Quick responses. Very thorough. We enjoy working with Ideal Lifts and are grateful for the amazing service they provide to us.
Great service and very friendly, helpful engineer. Thank you.
Just started using Ideal Lifts and had our first service/repair, I can't fault them at all - From Claire's efficiency in the office, sourcing parts and keeping me updated to Adam who visited, his attention to detail, finding a fault of a poor connection which had not been solved by our previous lift company.
We'd like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your support this year. We very much appreciate your help, quite often at the last minute, ensuring the College estate is ready for our students.
Brilliant service from start to finish of the repair of my lift. The engineer was friendly, polite and hard-working and definitely knew his stuff. Would highly recommend Ideal Lifts.
Thanks for your excellent responsive quality service.
I experience major problems re lack of response from [other lift companies] and I am happy to say your company always respond and deal with matters.
I would like to tell you that I was impressed with how well your service is explained and detailed.
I have recently changed our business to you from a national company whose customer service was not good. I chose you because you were local and all my dealings with you have been professional and efficient - you have responded to us quickly and provided all the information we need without having to chase it.
As a local Managing Agents, we use Ideal Lifts across many of our sites to service and maintain the lifts. They are efficient and organised and always make sure that the lifts are maintained up to standard and respond to call out requests in a timely manner. Pleasure to have working alongside us.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank Ideal Lifts and especially the engineers who have nursed our lift for the last couple of years. I will be passing on your details to our buyer and recommending your services to them.
Anytime we have had an issue they have always responded quickly and sorted the issue or came up with suggestions.
We've just started a new contract with these fine folks to look after our building's lift. They are far better (quicker and more thorough) at communicating than our previous service contractors. The service engineer was very polite and punctual.
[Your engineer] always does an excellent job, with little or no interruption to our business, he is a real credit to your company.
[Your engineer] was a pleasure to have on site and most helpful.
Super-efficient, very quick responses, and very reliable, highly recommended. Thanks to all team members and we hope to continue to have a good relationship with us.
We can’t praise your company enough. We get through with no problem and your response is great.
Your service is first rate and, having endured years of sub-standard expensive service from a competitor, it is a relief and a pleasure to deal with you.
We changed to [your] company approximately 3 years ago and are very pleased with the service. Your service engineer has good manners and got to the fault straight away.
We have site visits twice a year, which are arranged through the office efficiently. Providing us with good continuous, no hassle, service.
The engineer who visited worked really hard and was determined to find the faults.
…really glad we moved to you to look after our lift. The service is already a 100% improvement on the last people we used!! Thanks again for the great service we have received so far.
Your engineers do a wonderfully thorough job, and the six services a year give me a secure feeling about the reliability of the lift.
The engineer that carries out our services is very polite and efficient.
Response time is always quick from our local engineer.
Thank you for getting the lift back up and running. I would like to say a massive thank you to your engineer for his patience and professionalism.
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