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The Power of Prevention: Why commercial maintenance is important

Geoff Roy 20th February 2018 Company News

commercial electric fuse box maintenance As a commercial landlord or business owner, you know that the health of your building is the key to the health of your income. For this reason, it is vital to engage a planned programme of maintenance across the different elements of your building. The concept is simple, but implementation sometimes daunting or confusing. A delay can lead to faults, breakages and unnecessary expense.

Roofs

Poorly maintained roofs can have an impact on most other elements of a building’s environment, so it is key to ensure the upkeep of this part of a commercial building. Often problems are caused by blockages in a drainage system, so regular inspections of drains and downpipes can prevent issues from blocked, leaking and overflowing drainage systems. A professional eye will be able to detect signs of water penetration on inspection of the roof itself. Signs both outside or inside the building such as bubbling, unexplained mould or watermarks all indicate issues which must be resolved.

Pipes

Any utilities that are under repeated stress like valves, water tanks, pumps, and other plumbing-related components risk disrepair without maintenance. To maximise the life of a plumbing system, regular preventive maintenance is required; however, scheduling is often challenging. This is why maintenance is so much more effectual than repair as the system can be worked on during business downtime.

Electrical

As an owner or manager of a commercial property, there exists the responsibility to keep it safe for your employees, clients and tenants; so regular electrical maintenance allows you to meet this responsibility. Even a minor fault in an electrical system can prove to be extremely unsafe, and you could be held accountable for any injuries that occur on the property. Safety aside, electrical maintenance and modernisation can keep a building attractive to tenants by ensuring that it is technologically up to date.

Decoration

The external decorative repair of a structure is often indicative of the health of that building and, in turn, the status of the business that it houses. In this way, reliable and high-quality tenants can be won or lost for a commercial landlord. For tenants or users, internal decorative repair can have a very real impact on the effectiveness and well-being of the workers inside. For business leaders who wish to optimise the productive working of their staff, maintaining the working environment will be high on their list of priorities.

Weather

Repairing issues within a building, from roofs to walls to heating, is much more effectual during periods of good weather. This is why it’s important not to let maintenance programmes slip during the Summer months. Your building may well function smoothly without the pressures of cold, wet weather, but this is the ideal time to be identifying potential issues.

Legislation

Commercial landlords and building owners must ensure that their building complies with the correct building regulations. The Building Act 1984 is lengthy and can be hard to navigate. Sections of the legislation concern structure, fire safety, ventilation, protection from falling, conservation of power, drainage and access. Your regular maintenance programme will prevent your building from contravening the Act. Since contravention can result in the local authority undertaking measures of repair on your behalf and recovering those expenses from you, the cost of a maintenance programme offers great value.

So, why is it that programmes of planned maintenance often slip? One reason can be the logistical nightmare that can result in trying to liaise with numbers different contractors. At Woodhams, we have experts across disciplines to ensure that from the roof to the electrics, your building can be checked and maintained via just one point of liaison. Then if you do encounter a breakage or system failure, you can be safe in the knowledge that we can send the right someone to fix it.