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Facility HVAC in Pueblo and Pueblo County
Shops, trade counters, restaurants, professional suites, clinics, warehousing and light industrial. Maintained against a written asset list, with readings recorded per unit.
One page per unit, before anything else
Most premises we are called to cannot say what is on the roof. That is the first thing we fix and it takes a single visit.
| Recorded | What it is and why it is on the list |
|---|---|
| Identity | Where the unit is, what it serves, and a number tagged on it so the next conversation is about RTU 3 rather than “the one at the back”. |
| Plate data | Make, model, serial, capacity, electrical requirement, refrigerant type and factory charge — copied off the plate, not estimated. |
| Real age | Decoded from the serial number. It is very often a decade away from what the tenant believes, in both directions. |
| Condition | Coils, belts, bearings, economiser, filters, condensate, and the curb and roof penetration the unit sits on. |
| Compliance | Whether the disconnect, the working space and the service access are actually as they should be. This is where old rooftop installations most often fall down. |
| Consequence | What stops trading when that unit stops. A stockroom and a server cupboard 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 on the list with its model and refrigerant 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 that is nine years old and being told it is twenty — and stops a genuinely end-of-life unit being nursed through another summer at your expense.
Two visits, fixed content, written readings
What happens on each visit is decided in advance and does not change with who turns up.
Spring — before cooling
- Coils cleaned. In Pueblo County condenser coils pick up dust, cottonwood and agricultural debris fast, and a blocked coil raises the running cost every hour the unit runs.
- Charge measured against the conditions on the day and the plate figure. Not topped up on sight.
- Belts and bearings for tension, wear and alignment, with anything that will not last the season changed while we are up there.
- Economiser driven through its range. A stuck economiser is silent and expensive — it either brings hot outside air in all summer or never gives you free cooling at all.
- Condensate pan, trap and drain. A blocked drain on a rooftop unit becomes a ceiling stain inside the premises.
Autumn — before heating
- Combustion tested with an analyser and the readings written down. Year on year those numbers show a heat exchanger going before it becomes a shutdown.
- Flue and combustion air checked, including anything a tenant has added since. A new extract fan can pull a flue backwards in a tight building.
- Heat exchanger inspected. A failed exchanger means the unit is shut off and tagged, not patched.
- Controls read and compared with how the premises actually trades, which is rarely what was set on the day it went in.
- Filters changed and the sizes recorded, so the next set is right without a measuring tape.
What you get afterwards
A sheet per unit with the readings on it, a note of anything that will need doing and roughly when, and a short list of anything that should be done now with a price against it. Not a tick-sheet and not a sales letter.
Kitchens and workshops
Canopies, ducts and fans — and the part that gets left out: 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, clinics and offices
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 at all.
We make no health claims for air cleaning equipment. If a room needs more outside air, better filtration or longer run time we will say which and what it costs, and leave the clinical judgement to you.
Fitting out a unit
- Before you sign. We will look at the existing plant and tell you its real age and condition.
- Design and install for the layout you are actually building, coordinated with whoever is doing the ceiling rather than after them.
- Commissioning. Airflows balanced and recorded, controls set to your trading hours, figures handed over.
- Handover. Asset list, commissioning figures and a maintenance schedule in one file.
Go up and look first
Twelve things a facility manager can see from the roof without touching anything, what each usually means, and which of them are not our job at all.