As a facilities manager for a retail chain what you do impacts your company’s sales revenue and bottom line. As retailers re-imagine and enhance the retail customer experience to boost in-store sales, HVAC and facility management are playing an important role.
Post Renovation Cleaning: Don’t Forget Your HVAC System
Why you need post-renovation cleaning
Renovations create residual dust and debris. If your contracting crew doesn’t do a great job of cleaning up after themselves (and many don’t), people turn to post-renovation cleaning services to get rid of it.
The problem is, there’s dust and debris in places you can’t see (and won’t be removed by a post-renovation clean up crew). That’s because it’s inside your HVAC system. And it’s harming your indoor air quality, harboring nasty odors, and putting a strain on your heating and air conditioning equipment.
Keep reading to find out what to do about it. Or, watch the video:
Read MoreDIY Duct Cleaning: Do You Need the Experts?
You have probably heard that clean HVAC ducts help ensure healthy indoor air quality. You may be thinking about doing a DIY duct cleaning project. If you’re watching your wallet and have an industrious spirit, you can try air duct cleaning yourself.
How to Improve Temperature in the Office
Complaints about temperature in the office (being too hot or too cold) are the top grievances from office workers, according to IFMA and a variety of other sources. If your company is trying to boost productivity and get more employees back to the office, it pays to optimize your workplace temperature.
Research has proven that creating the ideal office temperature can improve employee experience, increase workforce output, and reduce mistakes. In fact, the savings and revenue generated by a more comfortable room temperature in the workplace could cover the cost of updates needed to improve the temperature in your office.
Here are 10 ways to make your existing HVAC system work better, without replacing the entire system.
Read More5 Reasons to Change HVAC Filters More Often
If your home or business has a furnace and an air conditioning system, these systems have air filters designed to protect the equipment from dust and debris. When these HVAC filters get clogged, system performance is compromised and your indoor air quality suffers as well.
Let’s take a look at exactly why you need to change HVAC filters regularly, how often to change them, and how to do so.
Read MoreAir Conditioner Repair or Replace: 3 Things to Know Before Deciding
Have you been told your air conditioner needs repairs? How do you know when it’s worth spending the money on a repair, or if you should bite the bullet and replace it now? Air conditioner repair or replace decisions are challenging even for the experts.