Dirty Filters
Take a look at this photograph. How many times have you been in someones office and looked up to see a dirty air conditioning grille or diffuser. It blackens the grilles, ceiling tiles, lights and worst of all this is what you’re breathing. It is an unsightly mess that you’ve got to get cleaned up. You’re not doing any maintenance at all. Why is that?
For a lot of people, it’s that they just don’t think of it. Most air conditioning equipment is out of sight and out of mind. You only notice the air conditioning when it’s not working, but by then it’s usually too late.
Let’s do a simple example and say that you’re a retail store open seven days a week from morning and into the evening. Having the store cool and comfortable is important because it helps keep customers in your business. You received a quote from the local a/c company on regular maintenance. Four filter changes a year came to a total of $500 and the service included a number of other maintenance items. You decided to forgo the maintenance because it was an unnecessary expense. I’ll just change the filter myself, you thought. However, in the past year the filter has not been changed by you or anyone else and the dust starts pouring into the store through your diffusers.
It’s memorial day weekend and you’ve sent out lots of advertising. You’ve got a big sale going on and it’s going to be a money maker. At 1:00pm in the afternoon, the air conditioning goes down and the store goes to 85 degrees in the next half hour. Customers are not staying in the store because it’s too hot. You put in an emergency call to your service company and they say it going to be about three hours before a tech can arrive. The tech arrives and has to do the maintenance on the unit before he can even diagnose the problem. You are now paying for low cost maintenance at emergency overtime rates. The tech reports to you that he had to change the filters, wash the coils, clear the drain. Since the unit was so dirty, the compressor was running at high amps and looks like it may have overheated a couple of times. We’ll see how it goes, but it might end up needing to be replaced due to internal damage. The bill the tech gives you is for $832 and the compressor if it fails will be about $1500 or so your told.
I have seen this situation many times over the years. Is it avoidable? Sure. I liken it to changing the oil on your car. You definitely don’t want to fry your engine, so you make sure those oil changes get done. The same goes for your air conditioning systems. They need periodic maintenance also.
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Maintenance at The Lofts
Systems Operation Services was awarded the HVAC maintenance contract at The Lofts 777 6th Avenue in San Diego, CA. The contract is being managed by NN Jaeschke of San Diego.
Emergency Response
We were called out to an AM/PM in Ramona, CA on Monday January 25, 2010. We found an electrical surge had ruined all of the air conditioning and refrigeration units on the roof. We quoted, were awarded and ordered the new equipment on Tuesday. We were onsite Thursday performing. All equipment was operational by Friday at noon, so the store would be ready for the weekend! The store manager told me that the store had never been more comfortable and the cooler had never been colder. Next time your in Ramona be sure to stop by and get an icy cold Gatorade.
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