[Posting for a friend] What is the value, monthly, of having elevator access to a fourth-floor residence? [more inside]
posted by smich on Apr 20, 2009 - 5 answers

[Irritating-mystery filter] Of magical elevators, murder mysteries, Kenwood mixers and time travel: please help me identify this tv programme I watched once as a child! [more inside]
posted by badmoonrising on Oct 13, 2008 - 8 answers

Where are all the novelty science education elevators? [more inside]
posted by buttercup on Sep 7, 2008 - 1 answer

I dropped my keys down the elevator in my apartment building. Is there any way I can retrieve them? [more inside]
posted by raztaj on Aug 10, 2008 - 17 answers

Italian Elevator Use Filter: Why do the Italians living in my building always press the down button on the elevator when they want to go up? [more inside]
posted by sdsparks on Aug 4, 2008 - 23 answers

I was at Water Tower Place mall in Chicago last weekend, watching the glass elevators go up and down. And then I wondered... where are the counterweights? [more inside]
posted by sbutler on Jul 25, 2007 - 13 answers

Can you really push the "stop elevator" button without getting in trouble? [more inside]
posted by nervestaple on Feb 12, 2007 - 21 answers

I've got a friend who works in a Univ. of Pennsylvania building with ongoing broken-elevator problems. I suspect the state of them is a legal no-no; how to go about filing complaints to straighten them out? [more inside]
posted by Drastic on Feb 9, 2007 - 15 answers

Why does standing in front of an elevator give me weird vertigo? It's as though the floor were moving up and down slightly. Is it just my brain anticipating the elevator motion and landing? Or am I sensing vibrations in the floor? Or some sort of air pressure thing? Or something about a vertical line dominating my field of vision? It is really dizzying and odd. Am I insane?
posted by unknowncommand on Jan 4, 2007 - 16 answers

I am currently renting a home that has an installed elevator built by American Crescent, that spans three floors. It appears to be 'jammed'... [more inside]
posted by docpops on Jul 16, 2006 - 6 answers

What's worse, manners wise? (Elevator behavior / Train behavior) [more inside]
posted by prettyboyfloyd on Dec 17, 2005 - 54 answers

Name that ubiquitous, cheesy elevator music:
duuuuummmm....dedeee da duuuuummmmm....
de deeee da DUUuuuummmmm da Dooo.....
...da de DUUmmmmm da doooo.... da de duuummmm [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on Feb 4, 2005 - 34 answers

We just bought a condo in a 4 story apartment. The one downside is that it shares a wall with the elevator, and it makes quite a loud noise when it brakes (stopping at a floor), but not when it's in motion.
What would be the best solution? Is there one? Is it too costly to buy whatever part is needed to quiet that elevator and have a elevator professional fix it? As we are new, I'm loathe to ask the strata to impose a levy (also because it's probably only a problem for the 3 other people who share a wall with the lift).
posted by eurasian on Dec 2, 2004 - 17 answers

How many of you frequently talk to yourself? Why do you do it? Do you do it more when you're completely alone or do you do it when people are around? Are you halfway talking to yourself and halfway talking to the other people? [more inside.] [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Dec 22, 2003 - 28 answers