It goes without saying that people will always want to shop, work, live, and send their children to school in buildings that are properly maintained and considered safe.
Commercial or residential, a lack of maintenance coupled with age, general wear and tear, and the effects of weather can significantly impact the image of a building and present risks to the items, resources and people inside. Here are five ways to maintain your building’s durability so that it can perform to its required service, function, and safety levels.
Preventive Maintenance
Ensuring that your building has a robust preventative maintenance plan will mean that you can prevent any potential larger issues and costly repairs later down the line. Alongside significant financial issues, neglecting building maintenance can result in a loss of peace of mind for both owners and visitors of a property. For the smooth running of your building, make periodic checks to ensure that the property is protected and safe by fixing damages, replacing equipment and replenishing any necessary supplies.
This also means thoroughly cleaning walls, floors, windows, as well as communal areas to remove dirt that could create harmful problems such as mould. Look for cracks, leaks or water damage in the likes of bathrooms and ceilings, and eliminate fire hazards while ensuring that fire exits are clearly signed.
Corrective Maintenance
Unlike preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance repairs any unplanned breakdown of equipment. This can relate to a design or construction fault within the building, for example, a broken pipe in the wall during casting. The purpose of corrective maintenance is to help to identify and repair faults so that the system, equipment, or machine can be restored to its initial condition.
Corrective maintenance plays an important role within the scope of maintenance services – giving the correct attention to problems within your building can help reduce emergency maintenance orders, resolve problems before there are delays in production or services, and above all, improve overall safety.
Scheduled Maintenance
Scheduled or planned maintenance encompasses any repair or work performed within a specific time frame, such as months or years. It is completed to ensure that assets can remain as functional as possible without causing any unexpected downtime, and can be determined by several maintenance triggers, including usage, condition, time, or event.
Common examples of scheduled maintenance tasks include changing the heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. This form of maintenance can also involve improving the presentation of a building, for instance, scheduling repainting every five years or replacing exterior features every decade with companies such as A&S Landscape.
Predictive Maintenance
When an issue occurs within a building, you need to be proactive. With predictive maintenance, the condition of a building’s systems, equipment and machinery can be monitored and tested on a regular basis to catch any potential failures and alleviate any unexpected, costly downtime.
Like with other maintenance strategies, predictive maintenance employs a variety of techniques and technologies, ranging from infrared thermography, vibration analysis, acoustic monitoring, oil analysis, as well as equipment observation.
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