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Premises that have to stay open
Retail, restaurants, professional suites, clinics, small hotels and light industrial across Savannah and Chatham County — including businesses trading out of buildings that were never designed for them.
What is in a visit
The same list every time, written down per unit, with numbers that can be compared against the previous visit. A site sheet that says “serviced” is worth very little on the day something fails.
Filters
Changed, with sizes and quantities recorded on the unit as well as on the sheet, so a replacement set can be ordered without sending somebody back up to measure.
Coils
Both faces inspected and cleaned, condition graded, pressure drop noted. On this coast the seaward face is graded separately so deterioration is a trend rather than a surprise.
Belts and bearings
Tension and alignment set, part numbers listed, worn sheaves flagged rather than quietly re-belted year after year. Airflow drops long before anything alarms.
Electrical
Contactors, capacitors and terminals. Pitting makes heat, heat makes more pitting, and eventually a compressor is starting through a bad connection.
Condensate
Drains, traps and overflow switches cleared and function-tested. In this climate an indoor coil makes a great deal of water and all of it has to leave deliberately.
Economisers
Dampers driven through their range, linkage and actuator checked, minimum outside-air position recorded as a number. The item most commonly skipped by whoever came before.
What we look after
- Retail and trade counters — door heat gain, short cycling, and units that can only be reached outside opening hours.
- Restaurants and bars — extract against make-up air, which is where most dining-room complaints actually come from.
- Suites, clinics and offices — zone complaints, after-hours running, filtration and outside-air rates written down.
- Small hotels and light industrial — many small units rather than a few large ones, which makes a record per unit the only workable approach.
Businesses in buildings that were houses
A great deal of Savannah trades out of buildings that were never designed for it. A restaurant in a converted ground floor, an office in a townhouse, a shop with a mezzanine added forty years after it was built.
The constraints are the same as in an older house — no duct route, no attic, plaster walls, a visible elevation somebody cares about — but the loads are much higher and the hours are longer. Both sides of that have to be dealt with honestly, and the answer is often a mix rather than one system.
Three things we will not put in a contract
- A guaranteed response time in hoursWe will tell you where you are in the queue and call back. A printed number gets broken on the first genuinely hot Saturday, which is exactly when you would be relying on it.
- A percentage off your energy billA seized economiser costs real money and fixing it helps. What that is worth depends on your tariff, hours and building, so the figure comes after the survey.
- Work that belongs to another tradeRoofing, structure, hood cleaning, fire suppression and electrical distribution beyond our isolators. We photograph what we find and tell you who to call.