The state tracks 44,267 elevators and escalators with a current certificate, every inspection since July 2019, and every alteration permit. Read together, those records show which buildings have an elevator that failed its last inspection, which certificates lapsed, and which buildings have no service company on record. I turn that into a named list an elevator company can call from.
Each with its date, type, result, inspector and the codes cited. The elevator file itself keeps a single inspection date per elevator.
The elevator file keeps only the last passed routine inspection. For more than one active elevator in five, the inspection files show a newer pass, often a callback that cleared a failed routine. Read alone, the file makes well-kept buildings look neglected.
Elevators whose certificate lapsed and whose last routine or callback inspection failed, with nothing passed since. For those buildings the lapse is not paperwork. The elevator has work waiting.
The first briefs cover the five westernmost Panhandle counties. Each one names the buildings where the state record shows a reason to call, leaves out the buildings the reader already services, and shows how the reader’s own book looks from the outside.
The same reading works for most Florida counties. The counties here are stacked like floors, largest first, the way they appear on the brief.
Every building in your counties where the state record shows a reason to call now: a failed inspection with no pass since, a certificate not renewed, no service company on record, or a unit sealed by the state. Buildings with equipment from 1985 or earlier are listed too. Named, with the owner’s mailing address, strongest reasons first.
The same reading of the elevators the state lists under your company: which of your buildings a competitor would call first, and which elevators are still filed under an old registration after an acquisition.
The state updates its elevator file about once a week. With each update, what changed in your counties: certificates renewed or lapsed, new failed inspections, units sealed or back in service, and elevators that changed service company.
If it is in the state records, it can be built. One elevator’s full inspection and permit history, alteration work by company, a county you are about to enter. Ask.
Every figure I deliver traces to a public record of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Bureau of Elevator Safety: the elevator file, the inspection files and the permit files. Nothing is modeled, estimated, or bought from a list broker. Any elevator in one of my documents can be looked up by name at myfloridalicense.com.
The files disagree in ways that matter. The elevator file keeps only the last passed routine inspection, so the reasons to call come from the inspection files. An elevator filed under a lapsed company registration usually means that company was bought, not that the elevator has no service. Where the records cannot support a claim, my documents leave it out. Reading the files together is most of the work.
Miami-Dade and Broward counties regulate elevators locally, as do the City of Miami, Miami Beach and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, so the state records cover those areas only in part.
Tell me your company and the counties you work in. I will send a one-page brief built from the current state records, at no cost. If the full list would be useful, I will tell you what it takes and what it costs.