Time to Review Your Planned HVAC Services
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When it comes to Gas Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, we understand the varied levels of critical purposes they serve for our vast range of clients. The importance and necessity of having a clean and comfortable environment increases the more time your staff, clients and customers spend at the premises. This is even more important when buildings are in use 24/7 such as for accommodation providers and care homes where there are more vulnerable occupants.
Gas Boilers
Regular maintenance of gas or oil boilers are a statutory requirement and a good service provider should keep your gas or oil boilers in the best condition through a preventive maintenance plan. This helps prevent unexpected call outs, by picking up warning signs in advance, which means you can arrange for any issues to be addressed, before anything more major occurs. Heating breakdowns during a cold snap may be business disruptive to retail outlets or commercial offices, but it can be crippling to accommodation and care providers.
Healthy Air
Quality, clean and fresh air in the workplace and any spaces occupied by people for prolonged periods of time is paramount to their health and welfare. It is essential for preventing the spread of viruses, pollution and allergens. HVAC filters are designed to filter air, so it is important to have filters replaced or have them professionally cleaned at intervals suited to the premises’ footfall and use.
In addition to healthy air, some premises have specific air temperature, pressure, flow and humidity requirements. Regular maintenance provides a more consistent climatic environment.
Your Maintenance Plan
Our experience suggests that it is more cost effective to offer our clients a planned maintenance, compliance-based contract with remedial repair and agreed fixed reactive call out rates to support this. This is in comparison to a maintenance care cover plan where a customer may be liable to pay for excesses, be directed to a call center who may not always dispatch local engineers.
Good planned, compliance-based contracts are priced with clarity from the beginning and offer a more personal service with a dedicated technical account manager. In-house service desks support local engineers who are strategically located to attend to planned site visits, reactive call outs and quoted repairs or replacement work. Having a local presence also means engineers will gain client familiarity and, through experience and on-site relationships, will be able to diagnose and complete repairs quicker and more cost effectively.
The Issue of Changing Provider
If you are looking to review your maintenance strategy, this can be a daunting prospect. Not only will you need to manage the process of moving contractors but also managing staff who may have relationships with their existing contractors which can be difficult to navigate around. Having a robust mobilisation plan that takes into account all the added stresses when changing providers is paramount to its success. No one really likes change; however the benefits can be numerous, don’t lose sight of these in the process!
Contact us and see how we could offer you a bespoke Gas Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning maintenance plan as we already do for our portfolio of clients.
Learn more about how you can make your maintenance regime more cost effective by reading our eBook - A Guide to HVAC Maintenance, you can download it here.
