Patent ID: 8720032

Claim:
A method for installing hoisting ropes of an elevator, comprising: lifting upwards the hoisting ropes of the elevator into an elevator hoistway via a hoisting device, wherein: in phase a), at least one rope of the hoisting ropes is lifted by pulling the rope to a set height and the at least one rope is fixed to the elevator hoistway or to another fixed structure of a building, in phase b), the at least one of the hoisting ropes that is at the set height and was lifted in phase a) is detached, and in phase c), the at least one rope detached in phase b) is lifted by pulling the rope to a next height and the at least one rope is fixed to the elevator hoistway or to another fixed structure of the building, whereby in phase a), the first number of ropes of the roping is lifted simultaneously with each other, and in phase c) the second number of ropes of the roping is lifted simultaneously with each other, in which the second number of ropes is smaller than the first number of ropes, and in that the number of ropes to be lifted at one time is 1, 2, 3 or more.