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Suites, clinics, studios and shops
The premises around the square and along the highway that are too small for a facilities team and too complicated for the landlord's handyman.
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What a commercial docket covers
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Planned
Scheduled service
Once or twice a year depending on the equipment and how hard the space works it, with a written record against each unit rather than a signature on a sheet.
- Rooftop packaged units and splits
- Ductless heads in treatment rooms
- Extract fans and make-up air
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Today
Breakdowns
Diagnosed with instruments and priced before the work. If keeping a unit going is bad value we show you the arithmetic rather than asserting it.
- Common parts carried
- Written price before we start
- A cause, not just a replaced part
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Advice
Before you change the space
Splitting a unit, adding a treatment room, putting a kitchen at the back. Each one changes where the air needs to go and none of them changes the equipment on the roof.
- What the existing system can carry
- Where the return path goes
- Whether extract needs a supply
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The premises we know
- Clinics and treatment roomsRooms that need their own temperature and their own air, on the clinic's hours rather than the building's.
- Studios and salonsHigh occupancy in a small volume, and extract that fights the front door every time it opens.
- Professional suitesOne system, several tenants, and nobody agreeing about the setpoint.
- Shops and trade countersA door open to the weather on equipment sized for a sealed building.
- WorkshopsProcess heat, extract and an office at the front on something else entirely.
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Whose unit is it?
In a small leased suite the split between what the landlord maintains and what the tenant maintains is usually unclear until something fails on a Friday afternoon. We have watched the same argument in a dozen buildings on the same street.
We will tell you what we can see: which unit serves your space, what condition it is in, and what a sensible maintenance interval looks like. Who is contractually responsible for it is a question for your lease, and we are not going to pretend to answer it.