The rules for keeping lifts running are not just changing – they are getting smarter. Between new safety laws and the phase-out of traditional phone lines, 2026 is a pivotal year for property managers and owners across the UK.
For a lot of businesses standard lift systems are simply unsuitable for installation. Most of the problems arise with the size of standard lift systems not aligning
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Supporting Futures Sheridan Lifts are excited to deliver the latest success in Supporting Futures, our partnership with One Manchester’s One Future Service. One Manchester’s initiative is to
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Step inside a commercial restaurant today and you’ll find the hardest working members of staff in the same place as always. The dumbwaiter has become an integral
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We’re told that we should all use the stairs more, instead of relying on lifts and elevators all the time. This is for the sake of people’s
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You may think that in 2018 a dumbwaiter is a dated device with no real applications in the modern world. How wrong you are. These age-old systems
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Dumbwaiters have their origins in the lavish dessert banquets of the upper classes of the 18th Century. By the turn of the 19th Century, you could find
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If you’ve been lucky enough to travel to the top of London’s tallest skyscraper the Shard, then you may have been surprised to have had to change
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You may feel that there can’t be that much different between passenger lifts and platform lifts. And we know the difference can be confusing – they simply
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Dumbwaiters have become the invisible team member of stations, coffee shops, supermarkets and our favourite restaurants. They take on the role of an extra pair of hands,
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If you’ve had a lift installed at your business for a long period of time, and the lift itself is starting to feel outdated, or isn’t running
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Lift systems often get overlooked when it comes to cleaning day. They ferry heaps of people between floors every single day, which can end up building up
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With every intricate machine there is the capability for a number of different things to go wrong. Take elevators for example - there are many ways for
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Dumbwaiters from Sheridan Lifts provide convenience, safety, and flexibility, and our ranges can transport an array of materials - but then so can others. So why should
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that the mechanism for making a platform lift go up and down would be simple. The truth is actually far from simple.
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A dumbwaiter – the device technically similar to an elevator is used to move lightweight materials such as foods between floors. They’re most well used in commercial
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