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Facility HVAC across Monroe County
Retail, professional suites, clinics, light industrial and warehousing. Surveyed before anything is scheduled, then maintained against the survey.
The survey, in order
One visit. Everything after it depends on what it produces.
Identify and tag
Every unit numbered, its location recorded, and what it serves written down — so the next conversation is about a numbered unit rather than “the one at the back”.
Copy the plate
Make, model, serial, capacity, electrical requirement, refrigerant and factory charge. Copied off, never estimated, and photographed.
Decode the age
From the serial number. It is routinely a decade from what anybody in the building believes, in both directions.
Record the controls
Schedules, setpoints, holiday exceptions and who has access. This is the field that prevents the most call-outs and the one nobody else writes down.
Rank by consequence
What stops trading when each unit stops. A stockroom and a treatment room do not get the same priority, and the list says which is which.
Planned maintenance
Two visits a year on most buildings, with fixed content that does not change with who turns up.
Before cooling
- Coils cleaned inside and out; a condenser that looks clean from above can be packed solid on the inner face.
- Charge measured against the conditions and the plate, never topped up on sight.
- Belts, bearings and mounts, and the economiser driven through its full range.
- Condensate pan, trap and drain — which in a shared building becomes somebody else’s ceiling.
Before heating
- Combustion tested with an analyser and the readings recorded per unit, so the file shows a trend.
- Flue and combustion air checked, including anything a tenant has added since.
- Heat exchanger inspected; a failed one means shut off and tagged, not patched.
- Condensate lines through cold space checked before the season that freezes them.
- Schedules read back against actual trading hours, including holiday exceptions.
What lands on your desk
A sheet per unit with the readings on it, a note of what will need doing and roughly when, and a short list of anything that should be done now with a price against it. Not a tick-sheet, and not a sales letter.
Ventilation, extract and fit-out
Kitchens and workshops
Canopies, ducts and fans — and replacing the air you are throwing away. A kitchen extracting hard with no make-up air path pulls the whole building into depression, and then it pulls at every flue in it.
That is the mechanism behind a pilot that will not stay in, a back door that will not open, and a carbon monoxide alarm nobody can explain.
Suites and clinics
Where the complaint is stuffiness rather than temperature we measure outside air actually delivered, the filtration in place, and whether the system short-cycles so hard it never ventilates. We make no health claims for air cleaning equipment — we will say what a room is getting and what it costs to change it.
Fit-out and late commissioning
Ductwork, diffusers, extract and controls for the layout you are actually building, coordinated with whoever is doing the ceiling rather than after them. Airflows balanced and recorded, controls set to your trading hours, figures handed over with the asset list.
And if the building was never commissioned in the first place, it can be done now — that is the fifth rung of the handover page and the largest single improvement available to most buildings we see.