Commercial
Commercial air conditioning across London.
Offices, shops, hospitality and server rooms, from Harrow and Stanmore out to the City and back. The same one provider, one price approach, scaled to buildings where the temperature is part of the job.
Air conditioning installation across London. Based in Harrow and Stanmore.
Offices
Comfortable meeting rooms and open plan floors, with units sized to the space and positioned away from desks and draughts.
Shops and showrooms
Steady temperatures for customers and stock, with tidy visible work that does not let the fit out down.
Hospitality
Dining rooms and front of house kept comfortable through service, with condensers sited sensibly out back.
Server and comms rooms
Reliable cooling for equipment that cannot overheat, with capacity planned around the load in the rack.
The same discipline, at scale
Commercial work is quoted the same way as everything else. One written number, agreed upfront, then engineered and finished properly.
- A site survey and a written single price, agreed before work starts
- Multi unit and multi room installations planned around your opening hours
- Planned maintenance schedules to the manufacturer's servicing intervals
- REFCOM certified company, F-Gas Category 1 qualified engineers, fully insured
How a commercial job runs.
The engineering is the same as a house. Everything around it is not. Six things are settled before a commercial quote gets written, and all six of them can move the number.
The survey is about the load, not the room
A meeting room with twelve people and a glass wall is a different problem from a meeting room with four people and no window. On a commercial survey we work from occupancy, equipment, glazing and orientation, then size from that. Undersizing shows up in July and oversizing shows up on the electricity bill, so it is worth getting right on paper first.
One unit or several
Some jobs are a set of independent wall units, one per room, each with its own condenser. Others are better with several indoor units sharing one outdoor unit, which cuts down what sits outside and what the building has to accommodate. Which one suits comes out of the survey, along with what each would cost.
Work is planned around your hours
Shops and restaurants get evenings and quiet days. Offices often prefer a weekend. Server rooms usually need a plan for keeping the load cool while the new kit goes in. We agree the working pattern before the quote is written, because it changes the quote.
Landlord and building sign off
Most commercial premises in London are leased, and most leases have something to say about alterations and about what can be fixed to the outside of the building. We tell you what we would need to put on the wall and where, in the form your landlord or managing agent will want it. Getting that consent is yours, and it is usually the longest part of the timeline.
Making good and reinstatement
If the lease says the premises come back as they were, that is worth knowing on the way in rather than at the end. Fixings, core holes and cable routes can all be planned so that removing the system later is a small job instead of a dilapidations argument.
Records and compliance
Commercial systems above a certain refrigerant charge have to be leak checked at set intervals with the records kept, and the duty for that sits with the operator of the equipment rather than with us. We tell you at survey which side of that line your system falls on, and where it is above it, we keep the records and hand them over.
The rooms that cause the arguments.
The meeting room nobody can sit in after 2pm
Usually a small room with a lot of glass on a south or west elevation, and usually the one room in the office with no openable window. The fix is capacity sized to the glazing rather than to the floor area, and a unit positioned so the air is not blowing down the back of whoever is presenting.
The comms cupboard
Small, sealed, and full of equipment that runs whether the building is occupied or not. Sizing here comes off the load in the rack rather than off the room, and the system has to be able to run in winter as well, when the rest of the building is calling for heat and the cupboard is not.
The front of house that empties at the door
Shops and restaurants lose most of their conditioned air through the entrance. Where the unit goes matters more than usual here, because a badly placed one spends the day cooling the pavement.
The office that is too cold on one side
One system trying to serve two elevations with completely different solar gain. Almost always better solved by splitting it into zones that can be set independently than by adding capacity to the whole floor.
Planned maintenance
Commercial systems work harder than domestic ones and they fail at worse moments. A planned schedule is set to the manufacturer’s servicing intervals rather than to whenever somebody complains, and the visits are booked in advance so they land outside your trading hours.
Multiple units on one visit bring the cost per unit down, which is the main reason a commercial care plan is usually cheaper per head than calling somebody out twice a year. The same starting prices apply as they do on the domestic side, and the schedule is quoted per site once we know how many units there are and where they are.
Every visit is written up. If a system is on the compliance side of the refrigerant threshold, those records are the ones an inspector asks for, and they are yours to keep.
Details of what a service consists of are on the servicing and repair page, and we cover sites right across London, listed on the areas we cover page.
Commercial
Book a site survey.
Tell us about the building and what it needs to do. We will survey it and put one number in writing.