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Commercial HVAC across central Suffolk
Shops on the Turnpike, restaurants, salons, professional suites, clinics and light industrial. Surveyed before anything is scheduled, then maintained against the survey.
The survey
Most premises we are called to cannot say what is on the roof. One visit fixes that permanently, and everything else depends on it.
Identity
Where each unit is, what it serves, and a tag on it, so the next conversation is about a numbered unit rather than “the one at the back”.
Plate data
Make, model, serial, capacity, electrical requirement, refrigerant and factory charge. Copied off the plate, not estimated.
Real age
Decoded from the serial number, which is routinely a decade from what anybody in the building believes.
Consequence
What stops trading when it stops. A stockroom and a treatment room do not get the same priority, and the list says which is which.
It changes what you pay
An asset list turns emergencies into scheduled work. When the unit that fails is already recorded, the part is ordered on the first call rather than the second visit.
It changes what you are told
It also stops you paying to replace something nine years old because somebody said twenty — and stops a genuinely finished unit being nursed through another summer at your expense.
Planned maintenance
Two visits a year on most premises, with fixed content and a sheet per unit afterwards — the commercial version of the argument made on the signature page.
Before cooling
- Coils cleaned inside and out; a condenser that looks clean from above can be packed solid on the inner face.
- Charge measured against the conditions and the plate, never topped up on sight.
- Belts, bearings and mounts, and the economiser driven through its full range.
- Condensate pan, trap and drain — which in a shared building becomes somebody else’s ceiling.
- Electrical: capacitor tested under load, contactor inspected, amp draw compared with the plate.
Before heating
- Combustion tested with an analyser and the readings recorded per unit, so the file shows a trend.
- Flue and combustion air checked, including anything a tenant has added since. A new extract fan can pull a flue backwards.
- Heat exchanger inspected; a failed one means shut off and tagged, not patched.
- Controls read against how the premises actually trades, including holiday schedules.
- Filter sizes written down so the next set is right without a tape measure.
Extract, ventilation and fitting out
Kitchens, salons and workshops
Canopies, ducts and fans — and replacing the air you are throwing away. A kitchen extracting hard with no make-up air path pulls the whole building into depression, and then it pulls at every flue in it.
That is the mechanism behind a pilot that will not stay in, a back door that will not open, and a carbon monoxide alarm nobody can explain. It is measurable and it is fixable.
Suites and clinics
Where the complaint is stuffiness rather than temperature we measure outside air actually delivered, the filtration in place, and whether the system short-cycles so hard it never ventilates. We make no health claims for air cleaning equipment — we will say what a room is getting and what it costs to change it.
Fitting out
Ductwork, diffusers, extract and controls for the layout you are actually building, coordinated with whoever is doing the ceiling rather than after them. Airflows balanced and recorded, controls set to your hours, figures handed over with the asset list.
Before you sign a lease we will look at the plant and tell you its real age and condition.