Are your industrial buildings over 20 years old? Chances are your buildings are in dire need of a preventative maintenance plan to ensure your business operations run smoothly.

Older buildings can come with quite a bit of problems for its owners such as inefficient HVAC systems and light fixtures. Leaky roofs and unreliable plumbing can compound into a costly repair or bring your business to a halt altogether. The cost of up-keeping an older property does not have to be expensive if a preventative maintenance plan is put into place that can help you identify which systems need upgrades or replacement parts before a breakdown occurs.

Starting with a preventative maintenance plan will save you money and headaches.  The money you put towards creation of a preventative maintenance plan has been shown to provide a return of investment of 5 times what is spent (Jones Lang Lasalle. “Determining the Economic Value of Preventative Maintenance”).  Increasing the longevity of a component makes financial sense as replacement altogether of a unit will be expensive and need installation.

What should your preventative maintenance plan include? A simple checklist would be:

• Categorize and list out all systems and write down what condition it currently is in. The more information the better so pay attention to energy efficiency ratings, space utilization of the systems and how modern the technology behind it is as this could also help in making that decision of when to upgrade.
• Price what the cost would be to replace the system altogether.
• Set a budget and allocate funds for part replacement and servicing.

All Pro Commercial Services can help develop this maintenance plan with your facilities and since we are nationwide and available 24/7 you can rest easy that your multiple locations will be taken care of.  Click here to get in touch with All Pro Commercial Services to start this process.