Whether you own a commercial or domestic property, installing air conditioning, ventilation and heating equipment is becoming an increasingly popular request for UK-based property maintenance companies to receive. In 2021 so far, we have experienced massive temperature changes, with both heatwaves and heavy snowfall making a manageable room temperature harder to maintain.
When using air conditioning, ventilation, or commercial heating equipment in your property, it’s essential to purchase high-quality equipment that you will be happy with for years to come. Part of guaranteeing that longevity is to request planned preventative maintenance from experienced companies such as Accurate Mechanical Services.
What does the process of a PPM audit involve, and why is it important?
What is PPM?
To understand why planned preventative maintenance is important, you first need to understand what it involves. Often shortened to PPM, this is a form of regularly scheduled maintenance and carried out on any relevant equipment. As the team here at Accurate Mechanical Services are experts in the air conditioning, commercial heating and ventilation sectors, we conduct this task on equipment relevant to this sector.
These maintenance tasks are completed to ensure the optimum efficiency of the machines within your property through safety checks, cleaning and maintenance. All of these processes help to guarantee that your equipment adheres to essential statutory requirements and regulations, such as Gas Safe.
What is a PPM Plan?
Best organised as a rolling schedule of checks, a PPM plan is the best way for engineers to ensure that equipment such as HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems are working efficiently, as well as fixing any potential technical issues before they worsen. These regular assessments would include the following:
- Testing all relevant parts of the equipment and completing any repairs.
- Cleaning filters and replacing them if necessary.
- Checking for leaks and testing the thermostat.
- Sourcing, checking and installing any replacement parts.
Also included in any planned preventative maintenance plan would be reliable and impartial advice about the best methods of maintaining the HVAC equipment. This could consist of reports that list the potential issues that could arise in the future and time spent assessing whether any additional PPM checks should be added to your plan.
Occasionally it’s crucial to request a PPM audit to further investigate the routine maintenance and its effectiveness for your property, but what’s involved in that process?
What are Planned Preventative Maintenance Audits?
It’s essential to regularly check the quality of any maintenance undertaken to see if any potential issues have been missed and suggest any possible improvements that could be made to improve the efficiency of the HVAC systems. A great way of doing this is to request for a PPM audit to be completed on your property’s equipment.
Accurate Mechanical Services regularly carry out planned preventative maintenance audits on both commercial and domestic properties. We complete assessments that check the results of any existing maintenance schedules, ensure that compliance checks are being followed as necessary, and verify that all of the above has been done whilst allowing the equipment itself to run at its maximum potential.
Requesting for a PPM audit to be completed will reduce the potential for technical issues to occur to your air conditioning, ventilation or heating systems in the future. This could end up saving you money and giving you peace of mind that every potential problem has been considered and accounted for.
How are PPM Audits Prepared?
Once you’ve requested for a property maintenance company such as Accurate Mechanical Services to complete a PPM audit, a HVAC engineer will visit your property and conduct all relevant checks. This engineer will select these checks based on the type of property you have and the various systems you use.
Our experts prepare a structured list of checks and processes based on the equipment that needs to be checked, ensuring that the audit is thorough before collating all relevant information for you to go through. This advice is the best way for all parties to assess how your planned preventative maintenance can be improved going forwards.
Request a Planned Preventative Maintenance Audit
If you own a domestic or commercial property and are looking for air conditioning, commercial heating and commercial ventilation specialists to complete a PPM audit, get in touch with Accurate Mechanical Services today. Our friendly and reliable team consists of engineers and support staff who are experienced in planned preventative maintenance audits, with an additional focus on ensuring high-quality results and customer service.