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Hi, it's JW.
Today we're going to have a look at an elevator or lift
in an older building.
It's built in the 1960s and the lift is original to the building
It's one that doesn't have a door on the car,
there's just a door onto the outside landing
It has very basic controls,
and it hasn't had any upgrades since it was installed.
It's going to be replaced fairly shortly with some brand new shiny thing
so we'll have a look and travel in it, and see how bad it is.
We are on the upstairs landing Here is the call button.
It has a label which advises of a step when entering or leaving.
Presumably no one could be bothered to adjust the lift so it stopped correctly.
The buttons on each floor are identical just a button and a neon indicator
The door is on a self closing thing they are just normal doors.
There's the floor.
This lift is for three people although that seems unlikely.
Persons under 16 are not allowed in
probably because they would get their fingers chewed in the mechanism.
Here's the control panel. White buttons for each floor
Ground, 123 and 4 Red stop, Green alarm.
The alarm is just a buzzer in the hallway
so if something goes wrong,
don't expect anyone to rush to help.
There's the door, hallway through the window
no internal gate or door whatsoever.
We'll press the button and see where this takes us.
Here we are on the ground floor,
have a look at the covering of the lift
it's some kind of rexine or some wierd material.
There's a label there, again about steps when leaving.
There is no make on this anywhere and there is no make on the outside either.
Whoever put it in was ashamed of the fact they had installed it.
This is the ground floor, they are all pretty much the same.
The door is just a wooden door with a handle on it
and one of those automatic closing mechanisms.
In this panel on the side is the locking mechanism.
It's supposed to be secured shut but just hangs wide open.
There's the lock which holds the door closed
when the lift is not on this floor.
There's a number on the bottom which probably has no meaning to anybody.
So there's that lift, a pretty horrendous old thing.
It's going to be replaced shortly anyway
so might as well get the video while it's still in place.
It's in the Bournemouth area somewhere.
Not giving the actual address because
I don't want people going round there
and annoying the people who live there.
As a bonus, here's another video of a lift
which is a similar age but has been tarted up.
The car has new controls, carpet and a mirror on the wall
The lift is ridiculously slow, and this video hasn't been slowed down
You'll see how long it takes to get from the 6th floor to the basement.
We are on the upstairs landing.
Two lifts, both identical, one call button for the two.
The lift is on the floor above
so we'll just wait a week or five while the lift shows up.
There's the lift arriving now
Here's the door rushing open.
It's bigger than the other one with carpet and a mirror.
Fairly new control panel
There's the plate with the various flats listed on it.
We'll go down to the ground floor
The door is just closing there slowly
and we're on the move.
Bearing in mind we're only on floor 6 at the moment
so you would expect it to be fairly quick to get down to the ground
And so we've finally reached the ground floor.
While the door opens slowly, I'll have to cut the video off there
because there is a big sign outside here
which has the name of the block of flats on it
Obviously we don't want to show that in the video
as we don't want stupid people going round there
and annoying the people who live there.