Servicing
Planned Maintenance
Servicing on a schedule keeps small faults from becoming expensive breakdowns, and keeps the records your compliance schedule depends on.
Routine maintenance is what decides whether equipment reaches its design life or fails halfway there. A well-maintained system should be checked every one to six months so that filters and coils stay clean and gas levels stay adequate, which is what holds both air quality and running cost where they should be.
Equipment that is clean, correctly charged and well maintained uses less energy to do the same work. A planned agreement usually pays for itself in lower power bills and fewer emergency call-outs.
What gets checked
- Filters and coils
- Cleaned so the system is not working against its own dirt. This is where most lost efficiency hides.
- Gas levels
- Charge checked and topped where needed, and a leak traced rather than repeatedly refilled.
- Condensate drains
- Cleared before they block. A blocked drain is how a system ends up in the ceiling below it.
- Controls and thermostats
- Checked against what the space actually needs rather than what was set on the day of installation.
- Fans, belts and bearings
- Inspected on air handling plant, where a failure takes the whole system out.
- Cool room doors and seals
- Seals, hinges and closers, plus the defrost cycle, on refrigerated rooms.
How often
- Every 1 to 3 months
- High-use equipment: supermarket refrigeration, cool rooms, busy commercial kitchens.
- Every 6 months
- Most commercial air conditioning, at minimum twice a year.
- Annually
- Inspection and reporting on systems that carry a compliance schedule.
Records that stand up
Maintenance plans include check lists, so warranties and fault claims are straightforward to deal with when equipment does fail. The record already exists and is already in order, rather than being reconstructed after the event.
Working around your hours
We work around your trading hours to keep disruption down. The City Works Depot ventilation replacement was done over a weekend for exactly that reason.
IQP 110611 (SS9) and Producer Statement Author 1902, for commercial systems that generally require a building warrant of fitness.
Compliance and inspections