Maintain your equipment
It pays to keep your equipment well-maintained, as this maximises its ongoing energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
For small- to-medium-sized businesses, maintenance doesn’t just have to apply to office and HVAC equipment; it should apply to whatever equipment is critical to your business operations.
Fresh & Clean Uniform Services, NSW
Fresh & Clean regularly audit all of their steam equipment to ensure that it is functioning properly and not wasting energy. Anything inefficient is replaced or repaired.
With steam powering all their dryers and heating the water for their washers, they have a maintenance contract with a stream contractor to monitor their chambers every quarter. This ensures that they don’t burn more gas than is necessary.
They also entered a maintenance contract for their gas-fired boilers to monitor the combustion chambers on a quarterly basis. This ensures that they don’t use more gas than necessary.[1]