Access to elevator shafts?

[aplusdocs]

If you dropped something down an elevator shaft, how could you retrieve it?

[dundurn]

You'd need to enlist the services of the engineer/ maintenance crew. They could raise the lift above the ground floor (or basement if there is one), shut down the elevator and then open the external doors at the lowest level. Whatever you'd dropped would be down there - probably very dirty and greasy but recoverable.

[paddywak]

You would have to contact the people responsible for the elevator, who should have over ride keys to allow you to carry out maintainance in a safe manner. This would incude such things as opening the doors when the lift is not in position and limited movement with the doors open for examination of the top and bottom of the lift cage

[Panic Button]

Just send a child in, and give him a bag of sweets to say thank you.

[Whickerman]

I smell a job for my crack team of midget detectives and that bungee rope I found on the tip. I'll just need to get the theme music sorted and we'll be right round.

[spudqueen]

When I worked for a bank I once dropped a set of safe keys down the lift shaft. A lift engineer had to be called out to retrieve them, and nobody was allowed to use the lift whilst we were waiting for him. Was I popular that day!

[Panic Button]

How on earth could you do that Spud?