Diagnosing and tracking your commercial HVAC maintenance needs allows your team to transition your system seamlessly between seasons. This transition requires internal checks and scheduled pre-spring preventive maintenance to ensure your operation is safe, efficient, and reliable.

HVAC partnerships guide your team through the best process to prevent unforeseen costs. Proactively assessing your commercial HVAC system before the strain of the summer will save your team time and money, while expert partnerships provide feedback and consultation that will deter downtimes and emergency service calls during peak months.

Diagnosing Maintenance Needs

As warmer days become more frequent throughout Michigan, facility managers can begin to run their air conditioning systems to diagnose any maintenance needs. By temporarily running your system,warning signs can ariseto call a commercial HVAC partner to perform maintenance to keep your system efficient throughout the peak summer months.

• Unusual knocking or banging noises.
• Slow to turn on and shut off.
• Not maintaining an ideal climate.
• Strange odors around the unit.

Creating a Checklist

Commercial HVAC systems require consistent care as frequently as weekly and as infrequently as annually. AnHVAC maintenance checklistorganizes your team to track your needs by month to seamlessly transition your system between seasons. Detailed lists assist your team in proactively partnering with a commercial HVAC professional for preventive service and include a complete service history.

Personalizing Your Maintenance Needs

Commercial HVAC systems require specific servicesdepending on design, usage type, system age, local climate, and total capacity. Before beginning a general maintenance plan, understand that your system has unique needs, and expert commercial HVAC partnerships deliver personalized solutions that create efficiencies and reduce costs.

Understanding Your System

A generalunderstanding of your HVAC system will help you identify times of immediate maintenance needs while collaborating with a commercial HVAC partner to schedule preventive maintenance.

• Variable Air Volume (VAV) System
• Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) System
• Constant Air Volume (CAV) System
• Heat Pump System
• Single-Split System
• Multi-Split System

Recognizing the Age of Your System

The life expectancy of your system depends on design and system usage, withan average lifespan of 15-to-20 years. The projected life expectancy of your system is critical to developing a maintenance plan and securing your ideal commercial HVAC partnership.

Tracking Your Commercial HVAC Maintenance

A detailed and organized tracking system of the maintenance history of your HVAC system helps your team track efficiencies, costs, and future needs. Tracking all maintenance and repairs provides a roadmap for your commercial HVAC partnership to provide the optimal service that maintains efficiencies and prevents downtimes. Securing long-term, sustainable HVAC partnerships will yield proactive maintenance to repair any failures before they occur.

Partnering With RMS

Sustainable, trustworthy partnerships drive the RMS team to deliver expert HVAC and refrigeration services throughout Michigan.

• Climate-controlled storage solutions.
• Commercial HVAC & refrigeration services.
• Innovative, sustainable & efficient results.

Valuing great relationships provides optimal outcomes, and RMS understands the importance of installing high-quality HVAC and refrigeration systems that meet your needs. Our team of experts provides customized solutions that optimize your units and implement cost-reducing energy efficiencies.