Temperature management is crucial when your building or heating and cooling equipment is under maintenance. You can rent high-quality heating and cooling solutions such as air conditioners, chillers, cooling towers or heating equipment to help maintain proper heating and cooling levels. The right solutions can help you protect your equipment from extreme temperatures, store products safely, provide comfortable workspaces and manage process temperatures.

Importance of Maintaining Temperature During Facility Upkeep

If your building or heating and cooling equipment requires maintenance, you must implement provisional solutions to keep your operations going. Temperature management should be an essential part of your downtime plan. Maintaining proper indoor and process temperatures is crucial for the following reasons:

Employee Comfort and Increased Productivity

A sweltering hot or freezing workspace is uncomfortable for employees, and it poses health risks. Overheating can cause heat exhaustion, dizziness, heat stroke or heat rashes. Working in extreme heat can also cause foggy goggles or sweaty palms, increasing the risk of accidents and injuries. Maintaining safe temperatures helps employees remain comfortable and healthy in the workplace.

Energy Efficiency

When your building is excessively hot or cold, equipment may consume excess energy as it tries to maintain temperature and operate properly. In other words, the equipment starts working harder than it should to achieve a balanced temperature. Taking steps to maintain acceptable process temperatures can help you conserve energy and prevent equipment downtime, stabilizing or increasing your company's profits.

Structural and Equipment Preservation

Freezing or extremely hot temperatures can damage your building and equipment. Controlling your building's indoor temperature can protect your building's structural integrity and extend your equipment's longevity. For example, maintaining temperature prevents mold growth and wood rot that can occur in humidity. It can also prevent pipes and water equipment components from freezing and bursting.

Product Quality Control

Some products require specific temperature ranges and conditions to maintain quality and safety. For example, books and documents must remain in cool, dry spaces to prevent warping. Food products must maintain a particular temperature for safe consumption, and electronic merchandise requires temperature control to ensure products and batteries work properly. Maintaining temperature during maintenance is essential because it helps you protect your product supply and maintain your profits and return on investment.

Standards Adherence

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55 offers guidelines on how to maintain proper indoor thermal conditions based on environmental factors such as humidity and temperature and personal employee factors such as clothing and activity levels. You can follow Standard 55 during maintenance by implementing effective temperature control methods.

How to Control Temperature During Maintenance

The primary challenge of temperature control during maintenance is that your heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be temporarily out of operation. Another challenge is that your building may be exposed to additional airflow or outdoor temperatures if part of it is under construction.

Temporary solutions can help you combat these challenges to maintain a comfortable workplace and protect your products and equipment. You can maintain proper temperatures with the following tips:

Rent Cooling and Heating Equipment

Renting cooling and heating equipment can help you maintain proper indoor and process temperatures.

Air conditioners: Portable air conditioners and air conditioner rental units cool your building when your primary HVAC system is under maintenance or a part of your building is under construction. Quality air conditioner rentals are self-contained and feature simple controls so you and your team can operate them easily.
Chillers: Renting a chiller is an excellent option if you need to cool a larger space. Chillers have a higher upfront cost than air conditioners, but they have greater energy efficiency, allowing you to cool your building while conserving more energy. Quality portable chillers are easy to install and connect in your facility, and they feature triple-duty valves, specifically-sized pumps, by-pass valves, digital flow meters and strainers. These components eliminate the need to manually decipher differential pressure.
Heat exchangers: You can also rent a heat exchanger to work with your rented chiller. A heat exchanger helps regulate extremely high or low process temperatures. Heat exchangers are especially important in applications such as perishable product storage, plastics production processes, scrubber cooling and alkylation cooling.
Heating equipment: Temporary heating rentals are essential when your building requires maintenance or repairs during the winter. Various portable and trailer-mounted heating units are available to help you heat your building and protect it from freezing temperatures. Natural gas, liquid and electric-powered heaters can provide up to 600,000 BTUH depending on the size you choose for your facility.
Cooling towers: A cooling tower is necessary if your facility requires continuous cool water flow to remove heat from heavy machinery. If your cooling tower is under repair or scheduled maintenance, a quality cooling tower rental can help you maintain the proper process temperatures.

Control Humidity

Humidity plays a role in temperatures, comfort levels, equipment operation and structural integrity. You can control your building's humidity levels with a commercial or industrial dehumidifier rental. Industrial-sized portable dehumidifiers between 325 and 5,000 CFM are available, and professionals can calculate your facility's requirements to determine the ideal dehumidifier for your specific needs.

Maintain Proper Air Flow and Movement

Air movement can affect how well heating and cooling equipment regulates temperature. You can create proper airflow and support your temporary heating and cooling equipment with the following types of fans:

Exhaust and supply fans: Exhaust and supply fans work together to move air out of and into buildings. A supply fan pulls outdoor air into a room via an air inlet and the building's ductwork, and an exhaust fan pulls air from inside a room and through an air outlet via the ductwork.
Circulators: A circulator such as a high-volume low-speed fan circulates and mixes warm and cool air to create an even indoor temperature and prevent hot air from rising. Circulators are especially beneficial in large indoor areas such as warehouses.

Choose Temperature Control Rental Solutions for Temperature Management Solutions

Maintaining temperature is crucial when your primary equipment is down or your building is under construction. Temperature Control Rental Solutions (TCRS) offers reliable heating and cooling equipment and excellent customer service. When you trust TCRS with your temperature management needs, you can expect fast response times, a seamless ordering and installation process and 24/7 support.

Our team can help you determine the best solution based on your facility and unique needs. Temporary temperature control for downtime is essential, and we're here to support you with the most effective solutions available. Contact us to learn more and start managing your building's temperatures with dependable equipment.

Ensuring Proper Temperature Control During Maintenance