Everything we get asked often enough to be worth writing down properly: what the law requires, what a shaft has to be, what an AMC should cover, and how to read a lift quotation without taking anyone's word for it. The first guides are being written now.
In progress
Four guides, in this order. Each one is the long version of an answer we currently give on the phone. When one is published it will appear here and nowhere else first.
What the Lifts and Escalators Act 2024 actually requires of an owner in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh: which registration comes first, who has to be registered besides you, what the Electrical Inspector checks, and how long each stage really takes.
Written for: anyone about to sign for a lift.
The five lines a quotation should carry, the three costs that are usually left out until the end, and the questions that expose the difference. Includes the wording to ask for in writing before you pay a deposit.
Written for: first-time buyers comparing vendors.
What a builder needs to leave, why the pit depth decides the drive type, and what it costs to fix each of these after the slab is cast. With the measurements to take before anybody quotes you.
Written for: owners still building.
The difference between a maintenance visit and a comprehensive contract, what is genuinely excluded from both, and how to tell a fair rate from a cheap one that bills for every part.
Written for: RWAs and facility managers.
Until then
None of this is being held back for a guide. Everything we know that helps you buy is already on the site, in the place it belongs.
Ask us directly
Ask the question and we will answer it, whether or not you buy anything. If it turns out to be a question other people have too, it becomes the next guide on this page.
Send a floor plan, a photograph of the stairwell, or just the question itself.
A photo of the stairwell works too. You will get an answer on whether a lift fits, what size, and what it costs, before anyone asks you for anything.