Preventative Maintenance
Planned maintenance that keeps your plant running
Scheduled servicing for air conditioning, cold rooms, ice machines and glycol systems across the Sunshine Coast — fewer breakdowns, lower power bills, and the compliance records your auditor wants to see.
Why "it still works" isn't a maintenance plan
Refrigeration and air conditioning plant rarely fails without warning. Compressors labour, fans stiffen, refrigerant leaks away in grams at a time, and door seals harden until cold air simply pours past them. By the time the temperature alarm sounds or the breaker trips, the damage — and the bill — is already done.
Preventative maintenance flips that around. A licensed mechanic checks pressures, cleans coils, tests electrical components, verifies controls and logs real running conditions against your set-points. Small issues get fixed for a few dollars before they become a 2am breakdown that costs you a full day's trade and a skip full of spoiled stock.
On the Sunshine Coast, where humidity is high and salt-laden coastal air corrodes outdoor condensers faster than inland sites, maintenance matters even more. We service plant from our Moffat Beach workshop across Caloundra, Maroochydore, Kawana Waters, Noosa and surrounding suburbs — for butchers, cafés, restaurants, breweries, florists, offices and body corporates.
Systems we maintain
Air conditioning
- Split systems
- Ducted reverse cycle
- Cassette & multi-head
- VRV / VRF
- Chilled water
Refrigeration
- Cold rooms & freezers
- Display & deli fridges
- Ice machines
- Blast freezers
- Glycol & beer systems
What a maintenance visit includes
Every scheduled service follows the same structured checklist — no guesswork, no skipped steps.
Refrigeration circuit
- Check & record suction and discharge pressures
- Test superheat and subcooling against nameplate
- Inspect for refrigerant leaks
- Verify TXV / EEV operation
- Record compressor running amperage
Coils & airflow
- Clean condenser and evaporator coils
- Check and clear condensate drains
- Inspect filters and advise replacement
- Verify fan motor operation and bearings
- Check defrost cycle and timers
Electrical & controls
- Tighten and inspect electrical terminals
- Test contactors for pitting or wear
- Check capacitor capacitance
- Verify thermostat / controller set-points
- Test safety and high-pressure controls
Mechanical & hardware
- Inspect door seals, hinges and latches
- Lubricate moving parts
- Check for corrosion on outdoor units
- Inspect piping insulation
- Vermin deterrent check
HACCP-certified controls
For food, hospitality and pharmaceutical businesses, temperature control isn't just good practice — it's a legal requirement. We set up and maintain HACCP-aligned control systems that give you the documented, verifiable cold-chain evidence an auditor expects.
- Calibrated temperature set-points and alarms
- 24/7 temperature & data logging with alarm setup
- Critical control point (CCP) monitoring
- Documented service history for audit trails
- Alarm escalation and notification configuration
NATA-traceable temperature calibration
A controller reading 3°C is meaningless if the sensor is actually at 5°C. We calibrate temperature probes and controllers against NATA-traceable reference instruments, so your logged data is accurate, defensible and compliant.
- Probe calibration to NATA-traceable standards
- Controller set-point verification and offset adjustment
- Calibration certificates issued on request
- Multi-point verification across your operating range
- Sensor replacement for drifted or failed probes
How often?
Recommended service frequency
Quarterly
Hospitality & food service
High-duty cold rooms, ice machines and beer systems under HACCP scrutiny — frequent use and food-safety audits demand it.
Bi-annually
Commercial AC & retail
Offices, shops and ducted systems — a pre-summer and post-summer visit keeps efficiency up and catches corrosion early.
Annually
Light commercial & residential
Lower-duty split systems and smaller cold rooms — once a year is enough to stay efficient and warranty-compliant.
Not sure where you fit? We'll assess your equipment, duty cycle and compliance needs and recommend a schedule — no obligation.
What maintenance actually does for you
Lower running costs
An iced-up or undercharged system can draw 20–30% more power than a serviced one. Clean coils and correct charge pull that straight back down.
Fewer breakdowns
Most emergency callouts trace back to a small issue left too long — a worn contactor, a blocked drain, a tired fan motor. Maintenance prevents the callout.
Warranty & compliance
Manufacturer warranties generally require documented servicing. For HACCP and food-safety audits, a maintenance log is the evidence auditors ask for.
Protect your stock
A drifting set-point or a failing door seal can spoil thousands of dollars of product overnight. Routine checks catch faults before they cost you.
Remote Monitoring & Control
24/7 eyes on your plant, even when you're not there.
We install and configure Frigbot — a purpose-built remote monitoring and control system for refrigeration and HVAC. Your cabinets, cold rooms and freezers report in continuously over the mobile network, so you can see exactly what they're doing from your phone, day or night.
It's the assurance that stock is safe, compliance is covered and faults are caught early — without anyone walking the floor with a clipboard.
Always-on cellular link
Each Frigbot unit talks to the cloud over the mobile network — no reliance on your site's wifi. Your plant stays monitored even if the internet drops out.
Real-time alarms
Out-of-range temperatures, door-ajar alerts, compressor faults and power loss all push straight to your phone the moment they happen — not in the morning when it's too late.
Your plant in your pocket
Open the app and see every cabinet, cold room and freezer on one dashboard — live temperatures, running status and history at a glance, from anywhere.
Daily temp logs, automated
No more hourly check-sheets and clipboards. Frigbot records every reading continuously and stores it securely — pull a week, a month or a year of records in two taps for audit, HACCP or council.
Basic plant control
Beyond just watching, you can set points, toggle defrosts, and start/stop equipment remotely — handy for shutting down a unit after hours or recovering from a fault without a site visit.
Throw away the clipboard.
Every cabinet logs its own temperature continuously. Sync your phone or check online and a full history is there in two taps — ready for the council, the auditor or the boss, with no manual daily temp log to keep up.
Ask us how Frigbot can replace your daily temperature log book and protect your stock around the clock.
Frigbot-led service visits
We don't walk in blind
When your plant is on Frigbot, we don't arrive and start guessing. Before we even pull up, we've already looked at how your equipment has been running — which units have been under heavy run-time, which have been short-cycling, and which have logged faults or temperature excursions.
That means the visit starts with the right parts, the right questions and the right priorities — the compressor that's been running 18 hours a day gets attention first, not the one that's barely switched on. It's faster, it's cheaper, and nothing gets missed.
Run-time hours
See exactly which units have been working hardest since the last visit.
Fault history
Every alarm, excursion and restart logged — we review it before we arrive.
Temperature trends
Spot drift before it becomes a spoilage event, not after.
Targeted parts
Come prepared with the right components for the units that need them.
Set up a maintenance plan
Tell us what equipment you run and we'll build a scheduled service plan that fits your duty cycle and compliance needs.