Hi everyone,
I manage an apartment building in LA. One day the elevator froze in place on the bottom floor. Went up to the control panel and noticed the controller was completely dead, or not lit up at all. Our elevator company was able to manipulate the controller to raise the car up a few floors but nothing more. The technician and the owner of the company do not speak English as a first language so I couldn't glean much info other than the controller is bad, and the parts are hard to find. They quoted me $14k to replace everything to get it up and running. The trouble is that by changing any parts out, the grandfather clause will terminate and I will certainly fail the next inspection. The city will require everything to be updated to code which will cost $100k.
My goal is to fix the controller in such a way that it will appear to not have been touched. Is this possible or am I way off base? The technician stated that the elevator is safe otherwise. Any input here would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Peter
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