Starting Your HVAC “Spring Cleaning” Checklist is as Easy as 1-2-3

Now – before the summer heat arrives – is the time to give your facility’s cooling system attention.  Fortunately, Goodway makes it easy for you to start today. Below are three printable HVAC cleaning checklists to get the ball rolling:

Checklist 1: How to Clean Chiller Tubes
Checklist 2: How To Clean Air Conditioner Coils
Checklist 3: How to Clean Cooling Towers

(Note: You must provide your email address to get access to each checklist.)

We are also writing a HVAC “Spring Cleaning” blog series to explain each checklist in more detail. This first post in the series is an HVAC cleaning overview. The remaining two posts in the series will explain how to properly clean your cooling system’s chiller tubes, air conditioner coils and cooling towers. In these future posts, we’ll discuss the importance of cleaning specific parts of your cooling system and specifically reference these checklists that address the procedures and what tools/products you’ll need to get the job done right.

For now, here’s the overview . . .

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HVAC Chiller Maintenance: It’s About That Time

Now that the hot weather is winding down here in the northeast, it’s time to think about laying up your chilled water system for the winter. Some plants do a dry lay-up with the condenser ends pulled off, and piping open to the atmosphere. Other plants do a wet lay-up with a chiller tube cleaner and chemicals circulating in the system to prevent build-up on the inside of the tubes and piping. See the “how to” video below if you prefer the latter.

Whatever method you choose, the one thing that I found crucial to making the following year’s start-up successful was doing the scheduled maintenance on the system as soon as possible.

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Chiller Tube Cleaners Help Keep Data Centers — And Our Digital World — Running

Remember all those posts we’ve published in this space over the past two years about the importance of chiller maintenance?   Well, we hate to say we told you so, but… we told you so (actually, we love to say that.). Now, one of your own is saying it as well – Data Center Journal.

The people who run data centers are really running our digital country. They make sure that Google can always complete our searches, that YouTube will always be able to provide us with that critically important video and that all of our Amazon.com purchases go off without a hitch. They also note that, next to the computers themselves, chillers are the largest consumers of energy in a data center (also sometimes called a server farm). They can be responsible for more than half of the costs expended to he help keep the servers cool.

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A Brief History of Chiller Tube Cleaning Technologies

Over the years, we’ve been advocates for the regularly scheduled cleaning of chiller tubes. In response to that maintenance challenge, a variety of techniques have evolved with varying levels of efficiency and effectiveness.   Some of them are good and some of them, well…

Spare The Rod and Spoil The Worker

In years gone by, your distant predecessors cleaned chiller tubes with a brush attached to a metal rod.  It was cheap and reasonably simple to do, but it was nobody’s favorite job and took forever.   Later, the use of chemicals to clean chiller tubes became popular, and they proved to be effective.  In addition to being expensive, hazardous to use and hard to dispose of when the job was done they took your chiller off-line for up to 24 hours.

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