Turns out the landlord is also looking to explore alternatives to our current elevator repair company. We’ve been using Otis, and they cost just over a thousand dollars an hour. They’ve offered some discounts (a couple hundred dollars off per hour) for signing a 3 year contact with them, so let’s do some due dilligence and call up a bunch of other repair companies before signing. (thanks @kinnard for jumping the gun on this!)
I’ve called half a dozen companies in the past, and my impression is that they are often busy and not taking new customers. Luckily David, who inspected our elevator on behalf of the state recently, pointed us to the full list of licensed companies, so we can call down that list:
These are linked from " * Certified Qualified Conveyance Companies (CQCC), and recent update" here: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/ElevatorPubs_forms.html
I would love your help with this! Here is a spreadsheet to track who’s called what, so that we don’t double call. We need to clean it up by figuring out which companies are close enough to San Francisco, and which companies do repairs (some of them do manufacturing only) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xkNHKNhdxt69aLPyunDOMzsZ-6Uvv35LPR-fJJObFOU/edit?usp=sharing