Lift News

Guidance, regulation updates and the occasional opinion. Written by the people who install, maintain and fix them for a living.

Supporting Futures Sheridan Lifts are excited to deliver the latest success in Supporting Futures, our partnership with One Manchester’s One

Step inside a commercial restaurant today and you’ll find the hardest working members of staff in the same place as

We’re told that we should all use the stairs more, instead of relying on lifts and elevators all the time.

You may think that in 2018 a dumbwaiter is a dated device with no real applications in the modern world.

Dumbwaiters have their origins in the lavish dessert banquets of the upper classes of the 18th Century. By the turn

If you’ve been lucky enough to travel to the top of London’s tallest skyscraper the Shard, then you may have

You may feel that there can’t be that much different between passenger lifts and platform lifts. And we know the

Dumbwaiters have become the invisible team member of stations, coffee shops, supermarkets and our favourite restaurants. They take on the

If you’ve had a lift installed at your business for a long period of time, and the lift itself is

Lift systems often get overlooked when it comes to cleaning day. They ferry heaps of people between floors every single

With every intricate machine there is the capability for a number of different things to go wrong. Take elevators for

Dumbwaiters from Sheridan Lifts provide convenience, safety, and flexibility, and our ranges can transport an array of materials – but

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the mechanism for making a platform lift go up and down would be simple.

A dumbwaiter – the device technically similar to an elevator is used to move lightweight materials such as foods between

In the UK there are over 200,000 passenger lifts in operation. Most of these lifts operate in businesses – businesses