Preventative Maintenance
What is Preventative Maintenance?
Much like your car, refigeration systems (both residential and commercial) incorporate many moving parts and systems that will deteriorate over time, if they are not looked after on a regular basis. By undertaking regular preventative maintenance on your heating and cooling systems, not only can you lower the risk of a failure in these systems, you can actually prolong the life of the system in order to get the best return on your investment.
Each preventative maintenance service call looks at a few key areas, such as consumables (ie. Refrigerant gasses, motors, fan belts and bearings – Just to name a few), as well as more advanced components, such as digital and wireless cooling and heating controllers. In the latter example, things such as software upgrades are now more common in the prevantative maintenance routine thanks to the digitalisation of these control systems.
Once a prevantative maintenance call is completed, the expert team at O’Connells will ensure that the works meet industry and vendor standards, before discussing with you your next preventative maintenance visit and locking that in.
Finally, Preventative Maintenance works best when it undertaken on a regular and frequent basis, with a common set of tasks being undertaken during each visit and then a series of less critical tasks applied as/when required. Sometimes this is as simple as having a vendor provide a regular maintenance plan with a solution thay they provide or in more complex cases, a custom maintenance plan may need to be developed.
How often should I undertake Preventative Maintenance?
As the image suggests, it is always best to have a preventative maintenance plan and schedule in place to help avoid the issues comonly experienced due to lack of maintenance. In most instances, the vendor and/or the supplier of the equipment you use in your day to day heating and cooling environments will provide a suitable maintenance plan to keep things running as smoothly as possible.
However that may not always be the case – In instances where things are installed into challenging environments, the needs of the system are more advanced than normal or the needs of your organisation differ from the normal vendor specification, a customised Preventative Maintenance plan may be required.
If this is the case, the professional team at O’Connells will sit down with you, look at every element of the solution and your requirements, analyse all of the required maintenance procedures, then come up with a balanced maintenance plan specifically for you. And by balanced, we mean something that follows the vendor and/or suppliers best maintenance practices, whilst being flexible enough to meet your specific requirements moving forward.
Call the team at O’Connells today to discuss your unique maintenance and system administration requirements.
