I'm a receptionist on the 1st floor of the building right next to the elevator. All day I hear a strange "whishhhh" sound everytime someone goes up. And when someone comes down there is a strange "shhhhhhhhh" sound.
As you can see, i'm bored at work right now and i've been hearing it all day.
Sometimes it's really quiet, then all of the sudden "whishhhh"
It startles the hell out me.
2007-08-18 16:11:30 · 10 answers · asked by Gia L 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
There are two types of elevators. One uses a motor and cables positioned on top of the building to raise and lower the "cars" and the other is a hydraulic which uses a lift just like the ones you see in a garage that lifts your car off the ground.
The hydraulic type are usually in building of 4 stories or less and the machine room is next to the elevator. So what your hearing is the hydraulic fluid flowing in and out of the lift.
2007-08-18 16:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in a condo building with exactly the same setup. The motors for the elevator are in that closet (on the ground floor, right?), and the noise is the motors doing their thing to raise or lower the elevator. In the olden days (!), the motors were on top of the building, but not any more. The cables that lift and lower the elevator go over pulleys near the roof.
2007-08-18 16:20:41 · answer #2 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's from the air pressure from the elevator going up and down, it's probably being magnified by the closet, being empty.
On the 26th floor of a certain hotel in Vegas, there was a fire years ago and several people were killed. When it's quiet you could here a whooshing sound coming from the area of the fire. It scared the hell out of my when I worked on that floor until I figured it out.
Of course all the older guys thought it was funny and compounded it with the guests telling them it was the spirits of the fire victims.
It was simply the elevator going up an down and pushing the volume of air in front of it both ways, it whooshes as it went by and the air leaked out the door seams, it did sound eerie though.
2007-08-18 23:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Joe V is exactly right on this one. elevators that use cables have the machine room on top of the building while hydraulic elevators have the machine room right next to the elevator on the lowest level.
2007-08-19 01:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by List K 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is the sound of the motor that lifts the elevator, together with the cables going around the pulleys. They put it in that service area near the elevator (which often has the sign ELEVATOR ROOM.)
2007-08-18 16:16:49 · answer #5 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Its the elevator zombies digging at the elevator walls in order to drag you into the elevator shaft and drink your blood!
2007-08-18 16:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Its a gost...
no, but i would guess its the wind caused by the elevator going up or coming down! I don't know...
2007-08-18 16:16:05 · answer #7 · answered by ღ Katja ღ 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's probably wind blowing through small openings.
2007-08-19 01:17:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
t is the pulley system that the elvator uses to go up and down
2007-08-18 16:19:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It sounds haunted to me!
2007-08-18 16:15:07 · answer #10 · answered by T C 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋