In Summer, HVAC system maintenance is crucial. Discover how Trane Rental Services can provide stop-gap coverage, avoiding disruptions and ensuring operational efficiency.

As the weather warms, building owners move from heating to cooling. Just like having regular maintenance performed on your car can prevent unnecessary wear and tear on your engine, seasonal HVAC system maintenance can bring even more value from your investment. It helps extend the overall life of your HVAC equipment and can help save you money daily by lowering your energy bills. For most, spring/summer start-up is just like getting your oil changed: You take your car in, you can’t drive while they work on it, but once the service is done, you’re back on the road. However, occasionally, during your car inspection your mechanic may find an issue that requires additional work, leaving you without your car longer than you anticipated.

Mechanical HVAC equipment is no different. Preventive maintenance is the key to properly functioning systems, but even the most well cared for systems can see issues that require more involved service work. And, taking the time to bring equipment offline for this necessary maintenance isn’t always an easy choice. In mission-critical spaces, or in buildings where a single unit provides both heating and cooling, going without can feel like a sacrifice that isn’t worth the cost.

Trane Rental Services provides the stop-gap coverage you need to avoid making a short-term tradeoff that could have a long-term impact on your operations, budget and peace of mind.

Here are five scenarios where Trane Rental Services can be the solution you need.

1. If your spring/summer start-up reveals the need for specialized or non-standard parts, you may have to wait for the parts. While many buildings can be without HVAC for a day or so, most can’t go longer. A rental unit allows the time necessary to do a complete equipment evaluation and provides you with a security policy if you need to order the parts necessary to do more in-depth updates.
   
   
2. Your equipment is ready for more than a standard service visit.
   Changing filters, replacing belts and fans and conducting leak tests are critical to proper performance. But more significant maintenance work, such as R’newals, refrigerant migrations and controls upgrades can significantly improve the energy efficiency, performance and longevity of your equipment. These activities often require bringing whole systems down. Rather than going without HVAC entirely, Trane Rental Services can provide you with a temporary cooling solution entirely separate from your installed system to allow for major maintenance without disruption to occupant comfort or process performance.
   
   
3. Even with properly performing equipment you can’t meet your building’s cooling requirements.
   With climate change and even with buildings that were designed just 5 to 10 years ago, building owners are finding their current cooling load exceeds their equipment capacity. When purchasing additional equipment isn’t planned in the budget, Trane Rental Services provides seasonal supplementary cooling to help you meet the need. Coupling the spring start-up of your own HVAC equipment with the installation and startup of temporary cooling equipment can ensure you’ll be ready for the heat.
   
   
4. You need to get more out of your OpEx budget.
   When capital budgets are not available, deferring major upgrades and repurposing your operating budget can be a smart decision. If your spring start-up reveals your equipment is nearing end-of-life, considering a long-term rental solution from Trane’s Rental fleet allows you to take advantage of the latest sustainable solutions in HVAC technology without buying a new system.
   BONUS: Trane Rental Services machines are optimized to run with connected controls for continual monitoring, helping you to gain even more energy efficiency and utility bill savings, putting money back into the budget for a future owned upgrade.
   
   
5. Start-up uncovers you don’t have a contingency plan.
   Planned maintenance and start-up is one thing—you can plan for it when the outage will be least disruptive to your building and business. But when an unexpected equipment failure takes your system down, you want to be prepared. Part of spring start-up includes identifying—and updating when necessary—the system documentation you have in place for your mechanical equipment. By including a rental services expert as a part of your spring start-up team, we can ensure that documentation includes a plan for emergencies in any season. Our trained HVAC system experts will complete a total system walk-through. We’ll collaborate to document your critical requirements, design a temporary solution and size your equipment needs using our proprietary load analysis software. We can even do the pre-work to plan for where the temporary unit will be installed and how you’ll power it.
   

Contact your local Trane expert today to learn more and ask them to make Trane Rental Services part of your contingency plan.