You should contact your apartment supervisor or landlord, it sounds like the buzzer is broken.

Thanks, they don't help. Do you know where the buzzers are located? in the elevator (and where)or in the shaft?
Thanks so much,
Deveney

I have a couple of questions:

Do the doors swing like the door to your apartment?

or

Do they slide behind the wall?

If they slide behind the wall is there a protection device on the doors that reopens the door automatically if you get in the way?

Regarding the device, does it retract when the door nears a fully closed position? This device would be located on the slideing door on the car itself not on the door that is on every floor.

Needless to say the bizzer should not be operating when the car is moving, however depending on age a elevator type there is a buzzer function if keep the doors from closing for too long.

Regards,
John
908-287-2403

A couple of other things:

The landord, the super and even the elevator service technician certainly can help... it is that they won't help because it is money driven. So we have to address the situation on the basis of safety, reliability or performance. Simple annoyance of one tenant probably will not cut it. However it were all or many tenants that could be a different storey.

Should it become a safety concern then can become a building department issue i.e. violations that cost money. The landlord can not simply take the elevator out of service because of ADAAG requirements (handicapped code)in the US. Also in the US there are all kinds of inspection codes depending on how standards are adopted in your jurisdiction.

John

The buzzer may be required by code depending on the function. The fact you state about it being audible until the elevator reachs the desired floor says to me that some other malfunction is ocurring. I need more information to make a determination. You can e-mail me directly or through this forum. We can easily be reached through our website: jdmoleski.com

Buzzers and other audible signals are commonly located on the car itself and/or somewhere in the hoistway (the shaft where the elevator travels) as so it can be heard outside of the hoistway for emergency purposes such as an entrapment. Need to know how many floors (landings) your building has. For under 10 floors the signal device is probaly near the main landing which should be the lobby area.

The buzzer probably sounds 80 dbs.