The Importance of Preventative Maintenance
If your HVAC system isn’t receiving routine maintenance, you’re setting yourself up for disaster. Relying on break/fix solutions leaves your operations open to downtime, lost productivity, health and safety concerns, and lost revenue. Air Comfort’s commercial HVAC maintenance services keep your equipment running at optimal performance and help ensure it reaches its full expected service life.
Ongoing Maintenance
Commercial HVAC preventative maintenance is one of the most important yet most neglected parts of managing a facility. Even if an HVAC system is custom designed and engineered down to the ductwork, it is eventually going to need serious repair and replacement.
However, if a system is well maintained throughout its lifecycle, its effective lifespan can be significantly extended. Minor issues can be caught before they balloon into expensive repairs, inefficiencies can be caught and remediated before the costs begin to pile up, and the worst-case disaster scenario of a system failure can be all but eliminated. Sure, it’s impossible to avoid extra costs and situations entirely, but preventative maintenance is the key to mitigating risk.
Applied Equipment
Applied equipment, the HVAC hardware you use every day to maintain proper internal air quality and temperature standards, is in no better hands than with Air Comfort. We are the premier service group in the Chicagoland area because our factory-trained technicians cover every stage of your equipment lifecycle. From initial design and installation to ongoing maintenance, we’re always available to offer support. Our full-time applied equipment support staff is always available to ensure that your facility’s temperature and air quality are appropriate for your space.
REPAIR COSTS
When your system is working harder than it needs to, maybe due to inefficient operation, wear and tear beyond what would normally be expected is a sure thing. Even after a system has been designed and installed from the beginning by engineers from Air Comfort who make efficient operation a priority, over time your system will begin to degrade.
Major repairs are expensive and a preventative maintenance plan where your system is being regularly inspected and tuned-up will make sure that each piece of equipment is working until it is truly necessary that it be replaced, reducing costs in the long term.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Even if a system is operating just below its peak potential efficiency, energy costs can add up over time and pose a significant problem for your bottom line. Over time, any mechanical system is bound to decline in efficiency, but preventative maintenance can slow and limit this process. The costs associated with having your systems regularly inspected and maintained can be more than made up by energy cost savings over the years or decades that an HVAC system will be functional in your facility. Preventative maintenance is also required to meet certain requirements for energy efficiency certifications.
UNEXPECTED FAILURE
There are few things more costly to a business than downtime. Particularly in the frozen winter months or during sweltering summer days, a failure can be expensive for two reasons. First, catastrophic failure will likely only be remediated with an expensive equipment repair or, worse yet, a major replacement of an element of your system.
Second, the time until your system is up and running again can mean that employees can’t work, customers can’t visit, and business can’t be done. Even a day of unplanned shutdown could cost thousands of dollars and, in a worst-case scenario, you’ll likely be looking at multiple days.
Free Preventative Maintenance Consultations
Preventative maintenance is a critical aspect of keeping your equipment running at peak performance for the duration of its service life. Contact Air Comfort to craft a maintenance plan that allows your commercial HVAC system to maximize operational efficiency and avoid costly repairs or replacements.
Chiller and Boiler Maintenance
Chiller and boiler maintenance, similar to maintenance on your entire system, is important to keep costs down and your facility operational. These critical pieces of equipment, though, hold a special degree of importance. Boilers and chillers are not just used to keep a facility’s air comfortable but are often essential for critical operations.
Take, for example, a research facility that depends on a constant supply of precisely temperature-controlled water. If the boiler or chiller is not maintained properly, it is unlikely that it will be able to maintain the exact same conditions day after day.
Air Comfort has been providing the right climate for businesses since 1935. Submit your information and questions or concerns and we’ll be in contact with you soon.
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