When it comes to running a business, there are little mistakes … and then there are BIG mistakes that hit you right where it hurts the most: your bottom line. Its easy to do little maintenance items to try and keep things running as efficiently and as low cost as possible. But sometimes maintenance isn’t enough. If you don’t replace it, it will impact you, and not in a good way. Can you really operate with employees and customers … and no heat?
Cold Morning, No Heat? 6 Quick Furnace Checks
Nothing can be more frustrating than coming in from a long weekend, expecting to be greeted by a building that’s toasty warm, only to find you can see your breath on the inside almost as easily as you can outside. No heat; not a pleasant surprise.
Tips For Dealing With HVAC Noise Complaints
As a property manager, every morning brings with it an entirely new set of issues. Some days can be all about routine maintenance while the next day can seem like you’re handling nothing but problems. The two work hand in hand. If things are maintained on a regular basis, the chances of it escalating into an emergency situation reduce considerably.
Energy Saving Tips To Improve HVAC
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average commercial building wastes around 30 percent of the energy it consumes. That means that as a property manager, if you haven’t taken any steps to improve your building’s efficiency in the last few years, it may be wasting even more. If that’s the case, you’ll find many opportunities to improve, some that you can implement immediately and will have lasting impact well into the future.
Quality Work Environment and protection of buildings
When it comes to providing a quality work environment and protecting a building’s occupants against indoor air pollutants, an air filter becomes one of the most important components of a HVAC system.
How To Avoid Office Temperature Fluctuations With Your Commercial HVAC System
Fall is a difficult time of the year. From one day to the next, you can experience 10, 20, even 30 degrees or more of fluctuation in the temperature. Add in rain and humidity, and its easy to see why a building’s HVAC system can have a difficult time keeping up with the demands. The environment changes from one moment to the next, and your HVAC system doesn’t know whether to keep it hot or keep it cold.
How HVAC Impacts Your Building’s Clean Air
The term HVAC is fairly straightforward and easy for most to understand. It consists of three parts: heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, all necessary for keeping the environment within your building comfortable all year through. However there is another part to the HVAC system that few building owners think about – the control. Control determines how effective your HVAC system is during operation, and how well it meets the goals of comfort, safety and cost effectiveness.
Dealing With The Most Common HVAC Problem: Mold
As an HVAC contractor, we clean, repair and maintain a lot of HVAC systems over the course of a year. And one of the most common problems we see is the presence of mold. Let’s face it, mold grows quickly in wet environments. And when a building uses a forced-air HVAC system, mold will definitely be a part of the picture more often than not.
HVAC Repair or Replace?
The most common question in the HVAC industry: Should I repair my HVAC equipment or replace it? If you can get a few more years out of your current equipment simply by fixing it, it may be worth the effort. Yet if you’ll have to keep putting money into it in the coming months, it may be time to reap the benefits of installing new. But how do you know?